The Overlapping Infrastructure of Urban Surveillance

A long, tall graphic depicting the invisible, ubiquitous city spy-grid.

Cory Doctorow

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A frame from EFF’s ‘Overlapping Infrastructure of Urban Surveillance’ graphic, depicting a person on a city street, being spied on by a drone, a satellite, a wifi node, a cellular tower, a police officer and a storefront sensor.

From traffic-cams to mobile device tracking to social media spying and beyond, the urban landscape has quietly become a locus of ubiquitous surveillance, without any meaningful debate, let alone democratic oversight or consent.

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