Visibility Is A Trap

Can you report on surveillance tools without using surveillance tools?

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Can you report on invasive surveillance without being invasively surveillant? Wrestling with this at The New York Times, Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson seemed to decide: sort of. Warzel and Thompson used a leaked data file that “included about 100,000 location pings for thousands of smartphones” to trace…