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Carceral Surveillance

Philosophers have long opined on the inextricable nature of incarceration and surveillance. Prisons have historically been the testing ground for new surveillance technologies. Bentham’s panopticon with it’s single guard tower overseeing a circular cell block eventually evolved into a lone guard monitoring an entire prison’s CCTV which eventually evolved into police departments surveilling entire cities […]

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It’s Time to Shore Up Fourth Amendment Protections at the Border

Since the Fourth Amendment passed in 1791, it has contained a “border search exception.” This exempts customs officials from its normal requirement of probable cause before they conduct “routine searches” of the person, papers or effects of someone crossing the border. In the 1950s, federal regulations substantially extended this exception for the Customs and Border […]