Our fast-paced contemporary age has loaded pop culture with every dystopian tale imagination can conjure, from Orwell’s 1984 totalitarian nightmare, to the social credit-obsessed society of Black Mirror’s Nosedive. No longer are these fictional omens of times to come. With a vast Social Credit System scheduled for 2020, China’s government intends to implement a social reality uncannily […]
Government Surveillance
“They’ve got powers they’re not using properly” – an interview with Renate Samson
It may well have passed you by but the draft Investigatory Powers Bill was unveiled by the government in November last year. It’s the first time the investigatory powers notoriously revealed by Edward Snowden have been made explicit in law. ‘What’s that got to do with me?’, I hear you mutter (Exeposé editors have their own […]
Decrypting the surveillance debate
The European Parliament, by 285 votes to 281, has passed a resolution calling on member states to: “…drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden, grant him protection and consequently prevent extradition or rendition by third parties, in recognition of his status as whistle-blower and international human rights defender.” The resolution continues to say that not enough […]