When immigration agents enter hospitals, and private companies are allowed to buy and sell data that reveals who seeks medical care, patients retreat, treatment is delayed, and health outcomes worsen, ...

What if your every move, word, and even thought could be tracked, analyzed, and stored? It might sound like the plot of a dystopian novel, but the reality is far closer to home—and far more insidious.

For decades, cars dictated urban planning in the United States. Few could have predicted that they would one day also double as nodes for surveillance. In thousands of towns and cities across the U.S.