Gabi Lardies wrote this week's Cover Story about the rise of home surveillance cameras.

It’s a big piece of work that started as a simple observation of something she had seen in local Facebook groups. The feature unpicks aspects of human behaviour, crime and mass survellieance and it asks a big question about the trade-offs we make when embracing ubiquitous, convenient and cheap technology solutions to perceived problems.

Gabi joins Anna Rawhiti-Connell to discuss her observational instinct as a journalist, how she substantiates those observations, and how she balances empathetic and human storytelling with very big and often morally questionable forces on a topic like this.

Stories discussed: 

Selling security, delivering anxiety: The rise of home surveillance cameras

Yes, those are testicles hanging from my car

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