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This installment is called Nothing to Hide.

One of my favorite stories about surveillance and technology is that one of the ways that the US government found out which house in Abad Abad had Osama bin Laden in it it was that it was the only house in Abadabad without a

satellite dish on the top, without internet connectivity, you know, that it was the only house off the grid.

So kind of made it easy to narrow it down.

That's Siva Vadyanathan. He's a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and he's got something I've been looking for ever since I started this mini series on surveillance

An alternative to the panopticon.

I think we're living in a cryptopticon.

We're living in an elaborate system of surveillance

that we're not allowed to see that is cryptic.

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