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Preamble

Open to Inspection

By Lewis H. Lapham

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the age of surveillance.

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Essay

Under Watchful Eyes

By Amanda Power

The medieval origins of mass surveillance.

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Agents of Betrayal

By Lawrence Osborne

A reconsideration of Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana.

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Happy All the Time

By Lynn Stuart Parramore

As biometric tracking takes over the modern workplace, the old game of labor surveillance is finding new forms.

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Essay

Rise of the Drones

By Rudolph Herzog

Drone technology spans a century’s worth of science fiction and military research.

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