The relationship between the surveillance state and corruption is one of the most fascinating aspects of today’s increasingly data-based governance. The means by which Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny claims to have discovered the names of the eight secret police agents who allegedly tried to poison him in August show how the same tech-based methods that governments use to track citizens also enable citizens to fight back.
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Leonid Bershidsky: Corruption cuts both ways in Russia’s surveillance state
A picture shows a surveillance camera in an underground passage in Moscow on Jan. 27, 2020.
