corporate surveillance

The first VR prototype: a bulky contraption with a mounted screen over the eyes, thick wires and cords attached to a mannequin head.

Issue 43

Welcome to Virtual Reality: Valid Identification Required

by Veve Jaffa on November 14th, 2016

While you’re exploring virtual reality, Facebook is exploring you.

A sticker on a metal pipe that reads "Safe?" in bold letters.

Issue 40

Twitter’s New Verification Process is a Game Rigged Against Its Marginalized Users

by Veve Jaffa on August 15th, 2016

Verification fragments an open platform based on social hierarchy and provides rewards and treatment accordingly.

A stuffed bear in black and white, casting long eerie shadows on the wooden floor.

Issue 23

Smart Toys and the Endangered Solitude of Childhood

by Alana Massey on July 1st, 2015

Though adults are free to opt in and out of advertising services and control the collection and use of their personal data, children have no such power.

Business license with the seal of the City of Chicago affixed to it. In the upper left is a graphic of a megaphone with the text 'Alarm', sound waves emanating from it.

Issue 22

We See The Signs: Graphic Design, Typography and Surveillance Aesthetics

by Jessica Barrett Sattell on June 10th, 2015

Mass-produced surveillance signage is not only about cameras.

Surveillance cameras on the side of a marble wall.

Issue 19

The Targeted Marketing of Ideas: How Constant Tracking Impedes Free Thought and Creativity

by Hannah Bloch-Wehba on April 9th, 2015

It’s not just the government who is watching us.

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