Built to lie: Investigating technologies of deception, surveillance, and control
本文揭示那些设计上就带有欺骗性的技术系统（如不可信的恒温器、监控应用、秘密收集手机数据的系统），指出其根本问题不在欺骗本身，而在权力失衡和人们对企业与国家控制行为的普遍默许。
This article explores technological systems that dissimulate by design. Examples include untrustworthy hotel and workplace thermostats, digital applications to spy on workers and family members, and commercial and law-enforcement systems that surreptitiously collect mobile phone data. Rather than view such cases as exceptional, I argue that deceptive communication systems are hidden articulations of normal technological orders. If deception in itself is not the primary problem with such systems, then transparency alone cannot be the solution. As troubling as institutional opacity might be, an analysis of deceptive systems reveals more fundamental problems: imbalances in power and widespread acquiescence to corporate and state efforts to control individuals, groups, and their data. By moving beyond a quest for (or belief in) technological veracity, scholars could redirect attention to power inequalities and the pressing question of how to live together ethically.