Surveillance

Today’s most innovative police states owe more to Mark Zuckerberg than to Joseph Stalin.

Why targeting ethnic minority journalists is central to China's crackdown on the press

Tibetan and Uyghur reporters are under siege in Beijing’s war on free expression

Erica Hellerstein

Belarusian hackers on what it means to be a 'Cyberpartisan'

The group is behind the opening salvo of politically motivated ransomware attacks

Can’t take my eyes off you

From Kraftwerk to Prodigy, musicians have sounded warnings about surveillance. It’s time to start listening to what they have to say

Masho Lomashvili

Biggest surveillance investigations in 2021

It has been a banner year for investigations into how surveillance technology is fueling authoritarianism and undermining democracy worldwide. Here are a few stories you shouldn’t miss

Caitlin Thompson

Five Coda stories you definitely should not miss

Here are some of the stories we did this year that deserve your attention if you'd like to understand the world of authoritarian technology and disinformation

Mariam Kiparoidze

Think about surveillance a lot? Here are podcasts you should listen to

From voice recognition software to watching the neighbors through a window, here are the podcast episodes on surveillance that have you covered

Mariam Kiparoidze

A blanket of surveillance covers Calais, but more migrants are dying at sea than ever before

France and the UK are in bitter conflict about how to stop perilous Channel crossings — and it appears that technology is not the answer

Isobel Cockerell

‘Surveillance’ doesn’t begin to describe what Beijing is doing to Uyghurs

Researcher and writer Vicky Xiuzhong Xu talks about the way the Chinese state has penetrated every aspect of life in Xinjiang — and targeted her, thousands of miles away, in Australia

Isobel Cockerell

I was 19 years old and working at a nightclub — then I got caught up in a government phone-hacking scandal

In October, Georgia was rocked by revelations that the country's security services had been eavesdropping on its citizens for years. Coda Story's Makuna Berkatsashvili was targeted by the operation under the strangest of circumstances. This is her story

Makuna Berkatsashvili

A photographer and artist walk into a fake news factory

In the Book of Veles, Jonas Bendiksen's controversial new photobook, the joke is on us

Future Wake: the AI art project that predicts police violence

Winner of the Mozilla Creative Media award for 2021, an interactive website calculates when and where fatal encounters with law enforcement will occur — and tells the stories of the victims

Caitlin Thompson

For a dissident living in Germany, China's digital policing is winning

Liu Dejun, the subject of an Ai Weiwei documentary, brawls China's hardening censorship and surveillance

Isobel Cockerell

Who's homeless enough for housing? In San Francisco, an algorithm decides

Replacing human decision making with a computerized scoring system is hurting California's most vulnerable residents

Caitlin Thompson

Your Bluetooth headphones could be vulnerable to surveillance

Wireless devices emit large amounts of identifying data which can be easily gathered and analyzed, a new study reveals

Mariam Kiparoidze

Secret radio stations, V2 rockets, offshore tax havens: the photographic explorations of Lewis Bush

From traditional camera work to material sourced from military archives and Google Maps, these images perfectly illustrate our strange new reality

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