The Digital Panopticon

Koepelgevangenis, a former panopticon penitentiary, constructed in 1886, best known as the prison where convicted World War II collaborators were held, in Breda, Brabant, Netherlands, on April 19, 2019. Uwe Aranas/Shutterstock

Commentary

Vice has broken the story that during the previous two years, as the headline announced, “The CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders.”