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JESSE MARX is a journalist in San Diego. His writing has also appeared in The Nation, Voice of San Diego and elsewhere.
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Dispatch
How San Diego Built a Surveillance Apparatus Under the Guise of “Sustainability”
What started as a green infrastructure project quickly spiraled into a crisis of mass surveillance.
Jesse Marx