The Architecture of Seeing

The most successful piece of propaganda the surveillance industry ever produced is four words long, and you have probably said it yourself.

This book is about what those four words were designed to stop you asking. Not whether your data is collected — you know it is — but what happens to a society when institutions can see everything about its citizens and its citizens can see almost nothing about them.

Drawing on more than 170 sources, it assembles the structure that fragments of privacy reporting never quite show: the same logic of domination as its predecessor, running through technological infrastructure rather than ideology.