Post Tagged with: "Authoritarianism"

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  Scan Me Not!

  Activists, Artists, Companies and Coders are sounding alarms about the use of facial recognition technologies in schools.
   
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  How Do You Like Them Apples?

  The friction between authoritarians and anti-authoritarians continues its prolonged advance.
   
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  As the Cold War Builds Abroad, The Security State Expands at Home – Part 3

  This issue continues our look at the security state’s development, focusing on 1966-1982 and clashing anti-authoritarians.
   
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  Democracy Under Attack

  Freedom House’s democracy tracker continued to decline globally for the twelfth year in a row.
   
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  How Would YOU Keep Tabs on 1.4 Billion People?

  China is cementing itself as the world leader in surveillance technology.
   
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  An Increasingly Hot Potato

  UK’s impending divorce from the EU threatens to resurrect the border between these two territories.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] An Authoritarian Dream Returns

  U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ tough-on-crime agenda is gaining momentum.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] This Cryptoworm Makes You WannaCry

  Within a week it infected more than 300,000 computers in over 150 countries.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Fashion Police

  From Facebook photos to government entities, facial recognition software is rapidly developing.
   
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  What’s Next for the Russian Bear?

  Socionomists Matt Lampert and Alan Hall weigh in.