Computational surveillance empowers governments and corporations and diminishes accountability.


Cori Crider is the presenter of The Big Picture: the World According to AI.
Computational surveillance empowers governments and corporations and diminishes accountability.

How the US, with the UK and others, largely gets away with running a global system of secret prisons and abductions.
![Abdul-Hakim Belhaj (C), senior member of the Islamist Party al-Watan addresses his supporters during an election rally in Tripoli, Libya, 04 July 2012. [EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/20131216135310491734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Despite US claims that the hunger strike has ended, fifteen prisoners are still being force-fed twice a day.
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A Pakistani man held in prison by the US since 2004 may finally go free, thanks to an ancient common law remedy.
