Surveillance

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Surveillance.

Video playlists about Surveillance

Talks about Surveillance

12:49

Kade Crockford

What you need to know about face surveillance

Posted May 2020
10:00

Tamas Kocsis

The case for a decentralized internet

Posted Nov 2018
7:44

Christopher Soghoian

Your smartphone is a civil rights issue

Posted Oct 2016
11:56

Rebecca MacKinnon

We can fight terror without sacrificing our rights

Posted Sep 2016
5:13

Trevor Timm

How free is our freedom of the press?

Posted May 2016
9:28

Rodrigo Bijou

Governments don't understand cyber warfare. We need hackers

Posted Dec 2015
6:16

Christopher Soghoian

How to avoid surveillance ... with the phone in your pocket

Posted Aug 2015
9:22

Trevor Aaronson

How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists

Posted Jun 2015
5:54

Catherine Crump

The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you

Posted Dec 2014
20:37

Glenn Greenwald

Why privacy matters

Posted Oct 2014
19:34

Hubertus Knabe

The dark secrets of a surveillance state

Posted Aug 2014
33:30

Richard Ledgett

The NSA responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk

Posted Mar 2014
35:02

Edward Snowden

Here's how we take back the Internet

Posted Mar 2014
8:18

Christopher Soghoian

Government surveillance — this is just the beginning

Posted Mar 2014
9:23

Mikko Hypponen

Three types of online attack

Posted Jan 2012
14:30

Hasan Elahi

FBI, here I am!

Posted Oct 2011
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Exclusive articles about Surveillance

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