Lantern laws

History of Technology

Historical laws requiring enslaved people to carry lanterns after dark. Identified by Simone Browne as an early surveillance technology, connecting modern digital surveillance to a longer history of racialized monitoring.

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Unit 15: surveillance capitalism

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