“They’re asserting a general police power to capture anybody’s image and process it for law enforcement purposes just in case they later turn out to be guilty of something. That’s not OK.”
BOSTON TROLLING (THE COMPLETE SERIES)
FEATURES
SPECIAL FEATURE: A DISPATCH FROM TWO LONG AND DARK NIGHTS WITH THE HUB’S HOMELESS IN THE MIDDLE OF BOSTON HARBOR
There’s no way a relatively privileged middle-class reporter could actually know what life is like on Long Island without staying there. And so in June, that’s exactly what I did.
BOSTON TROLLING (PART I): YOU PARTIED HARD AT BOSTON CALLING AND THERE’S FACIAL RECOGNITION DATA TO PROVE IT
Boston Calling attendees didn’t know they were all unwitting test subjects for a sophisticated new event monitoring platform. We’re not talking about old school black and white surveillance cameras. More like technology that analyzes every passerby for height, clothing, and skin color.
SPECIAL FEATURE: TWISTED MEDAL
With Boston on the short list for the 2024 Summer Games, we tour Atlanta's broken Olympic promises
THE COMPLETE SOMERVILLE FILES (PARTS 1-4)
For 10 months between 2012 and 2013, Chris Faraone, Tom Nash, and Adam Vaccaro dug into the unseemly political underbelly of the City of Somerville, where the power and privilege of an elite few has dominated and perverted municipal progress for decades.
