Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film follows the personal investigation by Peter Keup, a Stasi victim-turned-historian, into family secrets. His search for ...

Berlin's Stasi Museum Offers Uncomfortable Lessons About Surveillance, State Coercion The exhibits quickly bring home the vast scope of the Stasi's domestic spying. East Germany’s dictatorship would ...

In June 2016, just before the UK’s EU referendum, I started watching the remaining stages of the Investigatory Powers Act as it passed through Parliament. I had set myself this task as part of my ...

A worker reassembles torn or shredded documents in the former headquarters of the Stasi in Berlin in 2019. (John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images) On average, it takes about nine hours to complete a ...

CULVER CITY, California — Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency, a year-long new exhibition at the Wende Museum in Culver City, brings together archival ...

In early August 2021, National Geographic published an article titled “As Germany’s Secret-Police Archive Shutters, Reckoning for Its Victims Continues.” The piece describes the Stasi, the German ...

Wolfgang Schmidt was seated in Berlin’s 1,200-foot-high TV tower, one of the few remaining landmarks left from the former East Germany. Peering out over the city that lived in fear when the communist ...

Jamie Coughlin Silverman and Gabriel Silverman say their doc, debuting at SXSW, has parallels to today, from data collection to times "when your neighbors turn on each other, when realities become ...