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November's issue explores the links between the digital world and design, from connections made with our data to the designers taking on a surveillance society

Thinkers in art, technology, fashion and product design are responding to the threat of mass surveillance with a range of privacy-conscious gadgets that have a distinctly villainous aesthetic

From smart cities to mass surveillance, our December issue – out on 1 November – looks at the complex relationship between democracy and big data