Latest Spying Podcast Episodes
COVID-19 Surveillance And The City
Surveillance and the City - March 25, 2021 21:05 - 44 minutesIn the final Surveillance And The City episode of the season, hosts Albert Fox Cahn, Liz O'Sullivan, and Ali Winston do a deep dive into all of the surveillance technologies that have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. While non-Western (especially East Asian) countries have received the har...
“Gangs” of New York Police Department Data
Surveillance and the City - March 15, 2021 20:04 - 47 minutesThis week on Surveillance And The City, hosts Albert Fox Cahn, Liz O'Sullivan, and Ali Winston discuss NYPD's so-called "gang database" and its systematic, unconstitutional criminalization of New Yorkers of color. Driven by social media monitoring and other surveillance technology software, NYPD...
All Dogs May Go to Heaven, but Robotic Spy Dogs Can Go Str8 to Hell
Surveillance and the City - March 03, 2021 22:14 - 46 minutesThis week on Surveillance And The City, hosts Albert Fox Cahn, Rashida Richardson, and Liz O'Sullivan discuss NYPD's use of a robotic dog in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Robotics design company, Boston Dynamics, began selling "Spot" back in June mainly to utility, energy, and construction companies, ...
Judas works for COINTELPRO: How the FBI infiltrated the Black Panthers
Surveillance and the City - February 25, 2021 21:59 - 52 minutesThis week on Surveillance And The City, we discuss the history of FBI surveillance under COINTELPRO (the Counterintelligence Program) and its legacies in "counterterrorism" and the surveillance of anti-racist movements today. How did anticommunist hysteria during the 1950s expand to include the ...
NYC: The City Whose Surveillance Never Sleeps
Surveillance and the City - February 18, 2021 21:32 - 52 minutesThis week on Surveillance And The City, we briefly chat about Facebook's tech war with Australia before diving deep into New York’s growing effort to ban facial recognition. How close are we to a historic win, who’s standing in the way, and how can you help? Hosts Albert Fox Cahn, Liz O'Sullivan...
Does Big Tech Hurt Our Vaccine Rollout?
Surveillance and the City - February 11, 2021 21:54 - 44 minutesThis week on Surveillance and the City: will Minneapolis be the latest city to ban facial recognition? Then, we take a deep dive into the latest reporting on how algorithmic decision making and tech giants are making even more of a mess of the vaccine roll-out. I’m your host, Albert Fox Cahn. Wi...
The POST Act Always Rings Twice
Surveillance and the City - February 04, 2021 21:09 - 48 minutesThis week on Surveillance and the City, we look at the long-awaited release of the POST Act, last year’s groundbreaking NYPD surveillance oversight law. Will this be a new day for law enforcement transparency, or just the latest NYPD effort to ignore the law. Then, we’re joined by The Econom...
Domestic Terrorism and Dangerous Law
Surveillance and the City - January 28, 2021 21:14 - 46 minutesThis week on Surveillance and the City, we look at the ominous threat of expanded “domestic terrorism” laws in the aftermath of this month’s attack on the Capitol. Will lawmakers learn from the mistakes of the USA PATRIOT Act and other rushed legislation, or are we about the repeat the same mist...
Biden's Picks, and a Microsoft Prison System
Surveillance and the City - January 21, 2021 22:24 - 47 minutesThis week on Surveillance and the City, we start by going through incoming President Biden's nominations and appointments, specifically focusing on the Office of Science and Technology, and attempting to divine what we can expect from the new administration. Next, we examine the consequences ...
It Can't Happen Here... Or Can It?
Surveillance and the City - January 14, 2021 20:31 - 50 minutesThis week on Surveillance and the City, we look at the smoldering wreckage of last week’s attack on the capitol, as police boosters use the attack as an excuse to further-expand surveillance. Then we take a hard look at Leticia James and the NYPD oversight inquiry. Finally, for Stranger Than ...
A Capitol Affair
Surveillance and the City - January 07, 2021 21:42 - 48 minutesIn light of yesterday’s attack on the US Capitol, we’ve decided to throw out the usual format and focus our show on what we just witnessed. This is one of the most consequential days in recent American history, and we’re here to ask: what the hell just happened? From law enforcement culpabilit...
The Best and Worst of 2020
Surveillance and the City - December 24, 2020 21:11 - 57 minutesOn this episode, Albert, Liz, and Ali talk about the best and worst things that happened in the world of privacy, data, and surveillance tech in 2020. The Good POST Act, Santa Cruz banning predictive policing, Additional Facial recognition bans (NY Schools, Boston, Etc.), Bipartisan Congress...
Drones & A Hack Attack
Surveillance and the City - December 18, 2020 12:00 - 53 minutesPart 1: Solar Winds Hack Part 2: Autonomous Drones Part 3: Stranger than Science Fiction - Terminator 3 Credits: Our Production team is: Producers Alex Brook Lynn of Racket Media and Fabian Rogers of STOP Sound Engineering by Adam Chimera Research Assistant: Carrie MaGee Video...
Stop, Frisk, & Many Risks
Surveillance and the City - December 10, 2020 21:00 - 49 minutesPart 1: NYPD statistics and Stop, Question, and Frisk Part 2: The Lockport NY School Facial Recognition Part 3: Stranger than Science Fiction: Steven Spielberg's Minority Report OUTRO As a reminder, make sure to share our episode with your friends and leave a rating on your podcatc...
Biden's Big Tech Cabinet
Surveillance and the City - December 03, 2020 21:00 - 48 minutesPart 1: Biden’s appointment of Pro-tech/surveillance cabinet members Part 2: The recent French proposal for a broader domestic security law Part 3: Stranger Than Science Fiction - Sidney Lumet's 'Network' Credits: Our Production team is: Producers Alex Brook Lynn of Racket Media an...
One Big Win & Many Easy Sleazy Subpoenas
Surveillance and the City - November 19, 2020 22:35 - 52 minutesPart 1: Our win in the hijab case Part 2: NYPD Admin Subpoenas Part 3: Stranger Than Science Fiction - Judge Dredd OUTRO: As a reminder, make sure to share our episode with your friends and leave a rating on your podcatcher of choice. We are brought to you by STOP, the Surveillance...
Surveillance & The Vote: Fumbling Through Elections & Policing
Surveillance and the City - November 12, 2020 22:30 - 49 minutesPart 1 - Policing as an election issue Part 2 - Election Technology Part 3: Stranger Than Science Fiction - Starship Troopers OUTRO: As a reminder, make sure to share our episode with your friends and leave a rating on your podcatcher of choice. We are brought to you by STOP, the S...
Surveillance & The Hill: City, State, & Federal Laws in Play
Surveillance and the City - November 05, 2020 22:30 - 51 minutesPart 1: Federal A - JUSTICE IN FORENSIC ALGORITHMS ACT B - FACIAL RECOGNITION LEGISLATION Part 2: State Legislation A - CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 24 B - MICHIGAN PROPOSAL 2 Part 3: Stranger Than Science Fiction - Isaac Asimov's, "Franchise" OUTRO: As a reminder, make sure to shar...
The Voter Games: Police, Bad AI, & Voter Suppression
Surveillance and the City - October 29, 2020 21:30 - 51 minutesPart 1: NYPD Tomfuckery Part 2: Election Surveillance Part 3: Stranger Than Science Fiction - The Manchurian Candidate
Is Remote Proctoring Software Spying On You And Your Kids?
Surveillance and the City - October 23, 2020 16:38 - 52 minutesThis week, we take a deep dive into remote proctoring, the increasingly pervasive technology that’s tracking children and adults at home, even in the privacy of their bedrooms. Then, for Stranger Than Science, we take a break from this gloomy technology to look back at Snow Crash, one of the gre...
Pretty Fly For A Bad Guy
Surveillance and the City - October 15, 2020 21:11 - 48 minutesPart 1: FBI’s Fly Team in Portland: Part 2: Search Term History Use by Law Enforcement: Part 3: Stranger Than Science Fiction
BBB: Big Brother Buildings
Surveillance and the City - October 02, 2020 11:30 - 49 minutesPart 1: Trump Admin Decision - Greenlight Algorithmic Redlining Part 2: Biometric Surveillance Tech in Housing Part 3: Emotional Detection Software Part 4: Stranger Than Science Fiction - Sliders
Swab And Destroy A DNA Story
Surveillance and the City - September 17, 2020 20:49 - 1 hourThis week Albert, Liz, and Ali talk with Terri Rosenblatt, the Supervising Attorney of the DNA Unit at Legal Aid in NYC, about the ways in which law enforcement has collected DNA and how it can be used to surveil us. Later, we talk all about the 1997 movie all about DNA, Gattaca for our segme...
One Palantir To Rule Them All
Surveillance and the City - September 04, 2020 13:35 - 49 minutesThis week on Surveillance And The City, we talk about the rush to invest in the money-losing surveillance firm Palantir. Our guest Alfred Ng, senior reporter at CNET, joins us to dig into the latest revelations about geofence warrants, including revealing new internal documents from Google. ...
Tik Tok and ya don't STOP
Surveillance and the City - August 20, 2020 21:24 - 49 minutesThis week we talk Tik Tok. In recent weeks there has been a lot of fear around this app owned by Chinese company Bytedance, as President Donald Trump declared that he was considering a nation-wide ban on the popular platform. Our guest for this episode is Shoshana Wodinsky, tech reporter for...
V for Violated: GeoFence Warrants and Checkpoints
Surveillance and the City - August 06, 2020 20:51 - 48 minutesThis week on Surveillance And The City, we talk about Mayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial COVID-19 checkpoints, the NYPD’s arrest of activist Nikki Stone, and the scary world of geofence warrants which give cops a blank check to track nearly anyone at any time. To round things out we look back ...
Every Step You Take: The Contact Trace Race
Surveillance and the City - July 24, 2020 12:37 - 57 minutesThis week Albert Fox Cahn, Liz O'Sullivan, and Ali Winston discuss the dangers of contact tracing, the erosion of medical privacy, law enforcement hacking techniques, and for 'Stranger Than Science Fiction' the gang discusses the great 90's movie 'Sneakers.'
What is a Dirt Box?
Surveillance and the City - July 10, 2020 04:52 - 1 hourAlbert, Liz, and Ali outline the horrifying ways in which law enforcement has been spying on protesters and political dissidents throughout history and, most recently, the George Floyd protests in New York City. Plus, RoboCop holds up, but in more ways than you think. --- The Hosts: Albert F...
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