The Canary Chirps

The latest edition of my new privacy newsletter, The Canary in the Data Mine, features scopophilia, baby spying, and surveillance couture. Read it here. Subscribe here.

An excerpt:

One of my favorite instances of artistic surveillance is photographer Merry Alpern’s Dirty Windows. In the winter of ‘93, Alpern visited a friend and discovered a window in the friend’s apartment faced the window of a bathroom in a strip club in the opposite building. Alpern became obsessed with the narratives playing out across the way and returned many times to record a series of gritty black-and-white images starring sex, drugs, and bathroom activities.

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The Canary in the Data Mine

I’ve launched a privacy newsletter that spies on the people who are spying on you: The Canary in the Data Mine. It’s about privacy, surveillance, and cybersecurity. The first installment considers, among other things, why Jeffrey Toobin was jerking off during a work meeting. Read it here. Subscribe here.

An excerpt:

“I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention The New Yorker scribe Jeffrey Toobin’s Zoom incident, in which the journalist was caught jerking his meat during a virtual work meeting. Generally, I follow the Bible on such matters—see John 8:7: ‘He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone’—but Toobin’s tubin’ merits a closer look.”

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