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Humor and Surveillance - “That’s Not Funny” (Or Is It?): For Professor Serge Gutwirth on his Retirement 幽默和监督——“这不好笑”(或者是真的吗?):塞尔日·古特沃思教授退休后的感想

Secrecy and Society Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI: 10.55917/2377-6188.1083

Gary T. Marx

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Carceral Data: The Limits of Transparency-as-Accountability in Prison Risk Data 监狱数据:透明度即问责制在监狱风险数据中的局限性

Secrecy and Society Pub Date : 2023-08-10 DOI: 10.55917/2377-6188.1074

Becka Hudson, Tomas Percival

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Technologies and Time Tempers: How Things Mediate a State’s (Cyber Vulnerability) Disclosure Practices 技术和时间的脾气:事物如何调解一个国家的(网络脆弱性)披露实践

Secrecy and Society Pub Date : 2023-08-10 DOI: 10.55917/2377-6188.1072

C. Stevens

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Secrecy and Technologies 《保密与技术》特刊导言

Secrecy and Society Pub Date : 2023-08-10 DOI: 10.55917/2377-6188.1081

C. Stevens, S. Forsythe

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Being Curious with Secrecy 对秘密保持好奇

Secrecy and Society Pub Date : 2023-08-10 DOI: 10.55917/2377-6188.1078

C. Stevens, Elspeth Van Veeren, B. Rappert, O. Thomas

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Daunting Encounters: La Hague’s Infrastructures of Secrecy 令人畏惧的遭遇:拉黑格的秘密基础设施

Secrecy and Society Pub Date : 2023-08-10 DOI: 10.55917/2377-6188.1076

A. Villette