Writings

Books · Edited volumes · Journal articles · Book chapters · Research reports · PhD Dissertation · Articles and op-eds

Books

• Technopolice: Police Surveillance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (FR), Éditions Divergences, 2024, 232 p. ↗

• Counter-History of the Internet: From the 15^th Century to The Present Day (FR), Agone, coll. “Éléments”, 2023, 464 p. (updated paperback version of: The Fallen Utopia. A Counter-history of the Internet, 15^th-21^st century, Fayard, coll. “À venir”, “Histoire de la pensée”, 2019, 352 p.) ↗

• Odyssey 2.0 (FR) (with Alexa Brunet), Le Bec en l’air, 2023, 144 p. ↗

Edited volumes

• Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity: Who Will Watch the Watchers? (with Didier Bigo and Emma McCluskey, eds.), New Intelligence Studies. Routledge, 2023 ↗

• Telecommunications Reclaimed: A Hands-On Guide to Networking Communities (with Mélanie Dulong, eds.). ISOC, 2019, 252 p. ↗

Journal articles

• Olympic Surveillance between Paris and London: Interview with Pete Fussey, Myrtille Picaud and Félix Tréguer, Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS), vol. 6, n°1 (July 2025) ↗

• Systemic opacity and black holes in digital surveillance oversight (FR), Études françaises de renseignement et de cyber, vol. 4, n°3 (April 2024) ↗

• From the free Internet to the techno-authoritarian drift (FR) (with Judith Allenbach), Délibérée, vol. 20, n°3 (2023) ↗

• Towards democratic intelligence oversight: Limits, practices, struggles (with Kniep, R., Ewert, L., Léon Reyes, Mc Cluskey, E., & Aradau, C.), Review of International Studies (2023). ↗

• “We must defend the control society”: Hackers facing authoritarian liberalism (FR), Quaderni, n°103(2), p. 25-38 (June 2021) ↗

• The Virus of Surveillance: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Fuelling Technologies of Control, Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS), vol. 2, n°1, p. 16-46 (July 2021) ↗

• Cities under control and technologization of law enforcement (FR) (interview conducted by Marion Lecoquierre), Carnets de géographes, n°15 (May 2021) ↗

• Researchers facing State surveillance: state of play and countermeasures (FR) (with Camille Noûs), Special issue #19 Tracés, revue de Sciences humaines, on research data (September 2020) ↗

• The Political Defence of the Commons: The Case of Community Networks (with Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay), tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, Vol. 18, p. 560-574 (July 2020) ↗

• Learning from the History of Alternative Communication Networks (with Dominique Trudel and Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay), Journal of Alternative & Community Media. Vol. 5, n°1, p. 9-26 (April 2020) ↗

• From Internet Access Provision to Digital Rights Activism: The History of the French Data Network (with Dominique Trudel), Histoire et informatique, Vol. 21, p. 35-48 (December 2019) ↗

• Building and Defending the Alternative Internet: The Birth of the Digital Rights Movement in France (with Patrick Pétin), Internet Histories. Vol. 2, n°3-4, p. 281-298 (November 2018) ↗

• Gaps and bumps in the political history of the internet, Internet Policy Review. Vol. 6, n°4 (October 2017) ↗

• Intelligence Reform and the Snowden Paradox: The Case of France, Media and Communication. Vol. 5, n°1, p. 17-28 (March 2017) ↗

• Hackers vs States: Subversion, Repression and Resistance in the Online Public Sphere, Revue Droit & Société. Vol. 91, n°3, p. 639-652 (November 2015) ↗

• Expanding the Internet Commons: The subversive potential of wireless community networks (with Primavera De Fillippi), Journal of Peer Production n°6 (January 2015) ↗

• Computer fraud criminal law, the new friend of censors? (FR), La Revue des droits de l’homme - Actualités Droits-Libertés (June 2015) ↗

• Hacking public space: insurgent citizenship on the Internet (FR), Tracés, revue de Sciences humaines n°26, p. 129-147 (June 2014) ↗

• The Internet in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (FR), Revue des droits et libertés fondamentaux (May 2013) ↗

Book chapters

• Counting, repressing, preempting: video surveillance in the age of AI (FR), in The image tested by machines (eds. A. Ackerman, A. Leroy & A. Somaini), Les carnets du BAL n°. 11, Les Presses du réel (forthcoming 2026) ↗

• AI as an acceleration of capitalist and bureaucratic domination (FR), in Thinking about artificial intelligence: philosophical, political and cultural issues of digital automation (eds. A. Alombert, A. Leveau-Vallier & B. Loreaux), Les Presses du réel (2026) ↗

• From Radical Contention to Deference: A Sociogenesis of Intelligence Oversight in the United States (1967-1981), in Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity: Who Will Watch the Watchers? (eds. D. Bigo, E. McCluskey & F. Tréguer), Routledge, p. 15‑69 (2024) ↗

• Facing the automation of State bureaucracies, accommodation or refusal? (FR), in The Digital State (eds. L. Belli & G. Guglielmi), Berger-Levrault, p. 337–356 (September 2022) ↗

• Digital surveillance of researchers (FR) (with Yves Mirman), in Investigation in danger: Towards a new surveillance regime in the social sciences (eds. Philippe Aldrin, Pierre Fournier, Vincent Geisser & Yves Mirman), Paris, Armand Colin, p. 127-143 (January 2022) ↗

• Digital surveillance (FR), in The New World: Portrait of neoliberal France (eds. Allan Popeland, Anthony Burlaud and Grégroy Rzepski), Paris, Éditions Amsterdam, coll. “L’ordinaire Du Capital”, p. 915-924 (September 2021) ↗

• Seeing Like Big Tech: Security Assemblages, Technology, and the Future of State Bureaucracy, in Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights (eds. Didier Bigo, Engin Isin, & Evelyn Ruppert), London, Routledge, p. 145-164 (March 2019) ↗

• Anonymity and encryption, essential components of freedom of communication (FR), in The Europe of human rights in the age of the Internet (eds. Quentin Van Enis and Cécile De Terwangne), Brussels, Bruylant, p. 295-322 (January 2019) ↗

• Federating Community Networks: A case study from France, in The Community Network Manual: How to Build the Internet Yourself - Official Outcome of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (ed. Luca Belli), FGV Direito Rio Edition, p. 159-176 (November 2018) ↗

• Efficient Collaboration Between Government, Citizens and Enterprises in Commons Telecommunication Infrastructures (with Leandro Navarro, Felix Freitag, Emmanuels Dimogerontakis, Roger Baig, Ramon Roca, Renato Lo Cigno, Leonardo Maccari, Panayotis Antoniadis, Maria Michalis, Mélanie du Rosnay), in Community Connectivity: Building the Internet from Scratch - Annual Report of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (ed. Luca Belli), FGV Direito Rio Edition, p. 93-110 (November 2016) ↗

• Wireless Community Networks: Towards a Public Policy for the Network Commons? (with Primavera De Filippi), in Net Neutrality Compendium: Human Rights, Free Competition and the Future of the Internet (eds. Lucas Belli and Primavera De Filippi), Springer, p. 261-270 (November 2016) ↗

• The CSA and Internet regulation: an ontological error (FR), in Regulation of audiovisual communication: issues and perspectives (eds. Serge Regourd and Laurence Calandri), LGDJ (June 2015) ↗

Research reports

• Predictive policing in France: against opacity and discrimination, why a ban is needed (with Edlira Nano), La Quadrature du Net Research Report (janvier 2024) ↗

• Timeline of Intelligence Surveillance Scandals (with Shen Ibrahimsadeh, Ibtehal Hussain, Bernardino Leon Reyes, Ronja Kniep, Emma Mc Cluskey, and Claudia Aradau). GUARDINT Research Report (December 2022) ↗

• Place-Oriented Predictive Policing in France (with Edlira Nano), Amnesty International Netherlands (September 2022) ↗

• Best Practices Guide for Community Networks (with Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay), netCommons Deliverable n°4.5, ISCC CNRS (January 2019) ↗

• Enabling the Telecommons: Guidelines for Policy-Makers, netCommons Policy Brief Series, ISCC CNRS (November 2018) ↗

• European Legal Framework for Community Networks (v1, v2, v3) (with Virginie Aubrée, Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, Federica Giovanella and Arthur Messaud), netCommons Deliverables n°4.1, 4.2 and 4.3, ISCC CNRS (June 2018) ↗

• US Technology Companies and State Surveillance in the Post-Snowden Context: Between Cooperation and Resistance, UTIC Deliverable n°5, CERI Sciences Po (April 2018) ↗

• Community Networks and Political Advocacy (with Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay), netCommons Deliverable n°1.5, ISCC CNRS (February 2018) ↗

• Alternative Communications Networks Throughout History (with Dominique Trudel), netCommons Deliverable n°5.1, ISCC CNRS (December 2016) ↗

• Mapping the Controversies Around Surveillance in the Digital Space: a study of the post-Snowden debate (with Audrey Baneyx and Médéric Martin-Mazé) SOURCE Deliverable n°8.5, CERI & Medialab, Sciences Po (October 2016) ↗

• Report on the Existing Community Networks and their Organization (v1, v2) (with Leandro Navarro, Roger Baig, Felix Freitag, Emmanouil Dimogerontakis, Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, Leonardo Maccari, Panagiota Micholia, Panayotis Antoniadis), netCommons Deliverables n°1.1 and 1.2, ISCC CNRS (October 2016) ↗

• The European Union as an Institutional Design for Legal Interoperability – Interoperability Case-Study, Berkman Center Research Publication n°2012-18, Harvard University (September 2012) ↗

PhD Dissertation

• Power and resistance in the public sphere: a counter-history of the Internet (15th-21st century) (FR), PhD dissertation in political studies, Centre de recherches historiques, EHESS Paris (defended November 2, 2017) ↗

Articles and op-eds (selection)

• Anthropic, Silicon Valley’s conscience?, Le Monde diplomatique (May 2026) ↗

• When trade unions confronted digital technology (FR) (with Maud Barret Bertelloni and Pauline Gourlet), Le Monde diplomatique (September 2025) ↗

• The eternal return of facial recognition (FR), AOC Media (June 2, 2025) ↗

• Paris AI Summit: “The allusions to a humanist AI fooled no one” (FR), La Croix (February 13, 2025) ↗

• The privilege of start-ups (FR), Le Monde diplomatique (February 2025) ↗

• How state surveillance was fought (FR), Le Monde diplomatique (June 2024) ↗

• Visiting the “nights of AN2V”, the video surveillance lobby (FR), lundimatin (July 11, 2023) ↗

• AI and State reform: towards bureaucracies without humans? (FR), AOC Media (November 12, 2021) ↗

• The two faces of censorship (FR), Le Monde diplomatique (July 2020) ↗

• The State and Digital Surveillance in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic, contribution to the CERI Sciences Po Covid-19 dossier (June 2020) ↗

• Health emergency, security response (FR), Le Monde diplomatique (translations in German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian) (May 2020) ↗

• “Facial recognition proves ineffective in curbing violence” (FR) (with Martin Drago), op-ed in Le Monde (October 25, 2019) ↗

• The “safe city” or governance by algorithms (FR), Le Monde diplomatique (June 2019) (translations in Spanish, German, Japanese) ↗

• Towards the automation of political censorship (FR), La Quadrature du Net (February 22, 2019) ↗

• EU telecom reform paves way for policies tailored for community networks, London School of Economics Media Policy Project (November 2018) ↗

• Copyright directive: the factitious confrontation of the two heads of information capitalism (FR), op-ed in Le Monde (September 9, 2018) ↗

• The police Smart City is spreading like wildfire (FR), La Quadrature du Net (July 6, 2018) ↗

• Cyberattack detection: a new surveillance law (FR), La Quadrature du Net (April 18, 2018) ↗

• Intelligence: behind the legal fog, the legalization of Deep Packet Inspection (FR), La Quadrature du Net (November 15, 2017) ↗

• The ecological cost of the internet is too heavy, we must think of a low-tech internet (FR) (with Gaël Trouvé), op-ed in Reporterre (May 27, 2017) ↗

• From secret dispatch to Crypto Wars (brief political history of encryption) (FR), La Chronique d’Amnesty International n°365 (April 2017) ↗

• Rollback or Legalisation? Mass Surveillance in France and the Snowden Paradox, Explosive Politics Blog (June 2016) ↗

• French Constitutional Council Strikes Down “Blank Check” Provision in the 2015 Intelligence Act, verfassungsblog.de on Matters Constitutional (October 2016) ↗

• Saving the Internet (and ourselves) from technocracy (FR), op-ed in Libération (October 29, 2015) ↗

• Green light for mass surveillance (FR), Le Monde diplomatique (June 2015) ↗

• France’s Intelligence Bill: legalising mass surveillance, openDemocracy (April 29, 2015) ↗

• Against discrimination, don’t shoot the Internet (FR) (with Rokhaya Diallo), op-ed in Libération (April 27, 2014) ↗

• Against surveillance, democratize the Internet (FR) (with Jérémie Zimmermann), op-ed in Alternatives Économiques (September 2013) ↗

• The defense of freedoms on the Internet: Europe’s Epic #Fail (FR), op-ed on LeMonde.fr (December 15, 2011) ↗

• The specter of our freedoms (FR) (with Jean Cattan), op-ed on Owni.fr (May 7, 2011) ↗

• Internet and technology: the universe of possibilities (FR), Owni.fr (April 14, 2011) ↗

• Wikil.eaks Cables Shine Light on ACTA History, La Quadrature du Net (February 3, 2012)