Danish design studio Swift Creatives has developed a collection of modular CCTV cameras with forms reminiscent of silly straws, promising to make home surveillance more playful. More about Swift Creatives brings "architectural sophistication" to home surveillance cameras
A team of design graduates have developed a wearable device that is hidden in the mouth as a "surveillance-proof" authentication method that could replace fingerprints and facial recognition. More about Stealth is an identification gadget that grants access to devices via the roof of your mouth
Brooklyn-based designer Sara Sallam has imagined a collection of jewellery and accessories to protect the wearer from tech-enabled surveillance without concealing their features. More about Sara Sallam's Orwell jewellery thwarts invasive tracking technology
Architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti stokes the surveillance debate with his biennale exhibition, which is set in a working train station in China and uses facial-recognition technology. More about Carlo Ratti's Eyes of the City exhibition in Shenzhen tracks visitors with facial-recognition tech
As technology and artificial intelligence become more integrated into our lives and homes designers have invented ways to avoid surveillance and keep data private. Dezeen assistant editor India Block picks out six of the most interesting. More about Six designs that protect your digital data
A hardware filter called Winston that users plug into their modem to protect their data has launched, in response to mounting concern over digital privacy and surveillance. More about Winston filter promises to give people control over their online privacy
King's Cross in London is using facial recognition technology to surveil the tens of thousands of visitors that frequent the site each day, and Canary Wharf is "considering" following suit. More about London's King's Cross uses facial recognition to track visitors
Polish designer Ewa Nowak has developed a mask that makes the wearer's face undetectable to facial recognition algorithms used in public surveillance cameras. More about Ewa Nowak's anti-AI mask protects wearers from mass surveillance
Katja Trinkwalder and Pia-Marie Stute have designed a series of add-on accessories for those who are concerned about surveillance and their data security. More about Accessories for the Paranoid uses fake data to stop your devices spying on you
Glasgow School of Art graduate Erlend Prendergast has designed a modular robotic device that talks back to Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa in order to protect users from digital surveillance. More about CounterBug is a digital self-defence device that eases cyber paranoia
Digital artists R Luke DuBois and Zach Lieberman have both created installations to reveal the primitive nature of facial-recognition technology that is used by organisations all over the USA. More about Cooper Hewitt reveals sinister side of facial recognition tech at London Design Biennale
Yves Behar's design studio Fuseproject has created a cube-shaped indoor security camera that detaches from its base, which will launch at the Consumer Electronics Show next week. More about Yves Behar debuts Hive View home security camera at CES
This grenade-shaped scent diffuser has been designed to alert internet users of data leaks from their smartphones, tablets and computers. More about Smell of Data fragrance alerts internet users to leaks of their private data
This jacket by Seoul design studio Shinseungback Kimyonghun is covered with camera lenses that can record assailants and broadcast the images on the internet (+ movie). More about Aposematic Jacket is covered in cameras to ward off attackers
Austrian architecture studio Coop Himmelb(l)au has created a quilted spotty cloak designed to protect the wearer from unwanted data collection. More about Coop Himmelb(l)au's Jammer Coat hides the wearer from Google
Wearable Futures: researchers at Italian design centre Fabrica have created accessories that would deceive neuroimaging devices by diverting thoughts using electric shocks and flashing lights (+ slideshow). More about Headgear to thwart mind-reading surveillance cameras by Fabrica researchers
Opinion: in his latest column, Kieran Long argues that product designers should learn from architects and tackle civic issues like surveillance and security rather than "hide in their studios making something lovely." More about "Product design should do so much more than encourage consumption"
This range of anti-drone clothing was created by New York designer Adam Harvey to hide the wearer from heat detection technologies. More about Stealth Wear by Adam Harvey
News: a tiny robotic insect that hovers in the air like a fly has been built by scientists at Harvard University (+ movies). More about Tiny robotic insect takes flight
London designer Dominic Wilcox has expanded his series of sculptures featuring tiny characters balanced on watch hands with three new scenes tackling protest and surveillance. More about Moments in Time by Dominic Wilcox