This year a significant event will take place: somewhere in the world, the billionth CCTV camera will be installed. This means that a camera already monitors every seventh person on the planet. And in some cities, more than a million cameras are already in use, making the ratio even more

The typical Hollywood portrayal of spywork makes the field appear a lot more glamorous than it really is. For better or worse, intelligence agencies really feature a lot of sorting through files, documents, numbers, and other data, most of it done in office buildings with employees hunched over computers. While