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Sam Adler-Bell is a policy associate at The Century Foundation. He has a background in journalism, community organizing, and policy advocacy at the intersections of economic justice, race, and civil liberties. As a campaigner with the advocacy group Demand Progress, he coordinated nationwide campaigns to safeguard privacy and Internet freedom in an age of rampant surveillance. His writing on the labor movement, surveillance, and corruption has appeared in The Nation, In These Times, and elsewhere. He holds a BA in American History from Brown University.

Latest Work by Sam Adler-Bell

Scam Artists Are Preying on Student Debt Holders—and Google Is Helping

September 14, 2015

NLRB Setback at Northwestern Shouldn’t Stop Efforts to Protect College Athletes

August 20, 2015

When Hacking Team Met Bart Gellman

July 15, 2015

Why Are We Blind to Right-Wing Terrorism?

June 26, 2015

How Mitch McConnell Accidentally Doomed the Patriot Act

May 26, 2015

Sunset the Patriot Act (In Defense of Doing the “Irresponsible” Thing)

May 21, 2015

House Passes USA (Slightly More) Freedom Act

May 14, 2015

Whose Cameras? Our Cameras.

April 24, 2015

What’s Behind the FBI’s Obsessive “Stingray” Secrecy?

April 9, 2015

5 Things We Learned from Erie County’s Stingray Surveillance Ruling

April 1, 2015

Are You Being Followed by a Stingray?

March 13, 2015

4 Ways the “Surveillance Industrial Revolution” Is Changing Your Life

February 20, 2015

FEATURING Sam Adler-Bell

That’s What You Get for Filming the Police

May 7, 2015

Beware the ‘Stingray’

March 13, 2015

Why White People Freak Out When They’re Called Out About Race

March 12, 2015

Driving in the Age of Orwell

March 2, 2015

Might Makes Free Speech

February 4, 2015