Evgeny Morozov

Evgeny Morozov is a visiting scholar at Stanford.

In Your Face: Surveillance Technology

Evgeny Morozov, 5 April 2012

Until last summer, hi-tech riots – broadcast on YouTube and organised by BlackBerry – were mostly the preserve of enterprising dissidents in Iran and China. But in June hordes of ice hockey fans in Vancouver, outraged by the local team’s loss to a Boston rival, filmed themselves smashing cars and burning shops. Then it happened here. The crackdowns that follow such riots are...

Cyber-Con: Tweet for the CIA!

James Harkin, 2 December 2010

On a balmy evening in April 2009 Barham Salih, then deputy prime minister of Iraq, sat in the garden of his Baghdad villa while a young internet entrepreneur called Jack Dorsey tried to persuade...

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