William Pitt the Younger riding on the back of George III while surveying the French squadron, 1803. © Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee Carnavalet, Paris / Bridgeman Images.

Spies

Volume IX, Number 1 | winter 2016

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Preamble

Open to Inspection

By Lewis H. Lapham

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

Essay

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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All-Seeing Eyes

How satellites are used to spy on us all.

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Miscellany

At Super Bowl XXXV in Tampa police used cameras and biometric face-recognition software to survey fans. The system identified nineteen subjects of outstanding warrants, far more than anticipated. None were arrested. “We thought we were ready to use it,” said a detective.