Technology is increasingly used to monitor, track and control ordinary people. This category looks at those systems from the technical side.
Plenty of people already cover the politics, the court fights and the activism around these issues. The focus here is different. It is how the technology actually works. What a system collects, how it collects it, what happens to the data and where the design itself is the problem.
The goal is education. Each post explains the mechanism in plain terms, points to documented cases where it has been misused and notes the rights and laws it raises questions about, with sources cited so you can verify everything yourself.
Topics include mass surveillance hardware, location tracking, data brokers, device fingerprinting and restrictions on what you can do with hardware you own.
Bring documentation. Cite your sources. Argue the facts.