Recommended Reading

Levine’s investigation into the ARPANET’s origins and the unbroken line between the internet’s military-surveillance roots and today’s tech industry. …

A public pledge by technology workers to refuse to build databases of people by race, religion, or national origin; refuse to build tools for mass surveillance; and resist …

Search whether your license plate has been captured in Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader (ALPR) database — over 208 million documented searches. Publishes public …

A developer inspecting Claude Code for privacy reasons found that it steganographically embeds hidden markers in its system prompts — identifiers derived from your API base URL and …

The EFF’s ongoing coverage and analysis of age verification legislation — tracking bills across states and Congress, explaining the surveillance and free speech implications, …

Age verification laws ostensibly protect children but actually build identity attribution infrastructure — systems that automatically link digital accounts to real identities. Once …

A platform built for and by Indigenous communities to monitor, manage, and protect their lands and waters using community-controlled data infrastructure. A concrete example of what …

How researchers and Indigenous communities are working to document and protect traditional ecological knowledge without forcing it into Western scientific frameworks that strip it …

Community-led mapping initiatives centering Indigenous peoples’ relationships to land. A model for what it looks like when technically skilled people work in genuine …

How Western scientific institutions have historically appropriated, dismissed, and suppressed Indigenous knowledge systems while simultaneously depending on Indigenous land and …

An introduction to the #DataBack movement — what it means for Indigenous communities to reclaim authority over data about their lands, cultures, and peoples. Situates data …

The CARE Principles — Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics — are a governance framework developed by Indigenous data scholars to center Indigenous …

Traces how tech corporations replicate the patterns of colonial extraction — entering new markets, crowding out local alternatives, creating dependency, and extracting value back …

An examination of the growing neo-Luddite movement — people choosing to reject or limit their engagement with surveillance capitalism’s tools, not out of technophobia but out …

A running index of documented real-world harms from AI systems — not speculation about future risks, but concrete cases of bias, discrimination, misinformation, environmental …

A community and movement built around the principle that people should own their own data and content — publishing on their own domains, using open standards to connect and …

A personal essay/manifesto arguing that the internet has been industrialized and monopolized by corporate platforms that exploit users rather than serve them — and that the answer …

A history of how the free and open-source software movement grew from technical practice into political organizing — the values, the licenses, the communities, and the fights over …

What would it mean to build digital infrastructure that embodies feminist values — not just in content policy but in governance, ownership, and who the infrastructure serves? …