At Coda Story, we extensively report on surveillance and its implications. Do we sing about it? No, we do not. But others have. 

Over the holidays I put together a playlist of my favorite anti-surveillance songs. Here are the top six.

1. German band Kraftwerk predicted ubiquitous surveillance before face recognition, social media or the Internet of Things. Kraftwerk's "Computerwelt" raised an alarm about data collection in 1981. The lyrics are straightforward:

“Interpol and Deutsche Bank
FBI and Scotland Yard
Flensburg and the BKA
they all have our data”