Technology & Power
Investigations into digital infrastructure, platforms, cybersecurity, data systems, and the power they create.
When a Public Database Goes Quiet, What Happens to the Record?
An examination of how changes to public datasets can make important decisions harder for journalists, researchers, and citizens to reconstruct.
The Data Brokers Mapping Everyday Consumer Behavior
Examining the information trail created by ordinary digital transactions and the companies that turn those traces into commercial profiles.
Inside the Tender Documents for a Digital Identity System
Examining technical requirements, vendor promises, safeguards, and oversight provisions in large-scale identity infrastructure.
The Quiet Expansion of Surveillance Infrastructure
A document-led examination of how cameras, sensors, and analytics can spread across public spaces through separate projects that are rarely viewed together.
The Paperwork Behind a Failed Technology Rollout
Reconstructing how ambitious digital projects move from proposal to deployment, and where warning signs can disappear between teams.
The Digital Forensics of a Disappearing Web Page
Exploring archives, cached records, version histories, and metadata to reconstruct information that vanished from an institutional website.
The Contracts Behind a City’s Smart-City Ambition
Following technology procurement, data agreements, maintenance obligations, and vendor relationships across a connected urban program.
The Hidden Infrastructure of Online Political Influence
Examining recommendation systems, advertising markets, content networks, and measurement tools without attributing hidden motives to individual actors.
Inside the Global Business of Content Moderation
Investigating the labor, contracts, outsourcing arrangements, and performance metrics behind the systems that review online content.