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Feature / June 2016

No One Is Watching You

June 18, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

Silicon Valley learns that playing Big Brother is bad for business

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Illustration by Andy Li
Technology

Your Data Is Safe, For a Price

June 10, 2016August 8, 2020 - by Matthew Braga

How the same technology that protects your personal information is being used by cyber criminals

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Photograph by Rafael Castillo
Technology

Locked Tight

September 4, 2015June 17, 2020 - by Stacey May Fowles

Why you can’t retweet me

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Photograph by Jason Pier
Society

Hung Jury

July 24, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Tony Fong

How we police hateful opinions?

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Media

Muddy Waters

May 7, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Stacey May Fowles

Forget Jesse Brown versus Kevin Donovan—the key figures in the Jian Ghomeshi investigation remain female victims, not male journalists

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Politics

Think Inside the Box

February 4, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Marni Soupcoff

The government’s new security bill is designed to scrub “terrorist propaganda” from the Internet. It will also curtail freedom of thought

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Justice

Caught on Camera?

November 26, 2014August 18, 2020 - by John Lorinc

Body-worn cameras for law enforcement may become Ferguson’s unintended technological legacy

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October 2014 / Politics

Cyber Insecurity

September 15, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Matthew Braga

What we don’t know about Canada’s digital spy agency

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May 2014 / Media

No Place to Hide

April 14, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Daniel Baird

How the Internet endangers freedom of expression

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Illustration by Luc Melanson
April 2012 / Media

This Is Your Life

April 12, 2012February 1, 2021 - by Ivor Tossell

Timeline, Facebook’s latest bid to keep you in its grasp, is unsettling—and unexpectedly beautiful

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