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Our New, Global Panopticon: a five-part series on privacy, security, and memory.
In Parts I through IV, we traced the arc of surveillance from Richelieu’s axiom to the bureaucratic violence of zombie data. We met the Aurora family, forced to the pavement at
In Part III, we explored the psychological dimension of the surveillance state—the chilling effect that turns citizens into their own censors. But the Panopticon does not limit itself to silencing people.
In Part II, we witnessed the human wreckage of algorithmic policing—families held at gunpoint, innocent men jailed by facial recognition software, cyclists turned into burglary suspects by their own fitness apps.
The Automaton of Justice — Algorithmic Determinism and the Death of Discretion
Prologue How do we know when history repeats itself—especially when we’re standing inside the repetition? We all carry vague concerns about where the world is heading. Yet the most consequential