This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Mariel Garcia-Montes can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/challenging-normalized-surveillance-birds-on-the-wire-surveillance-in-mexico/. About the post: The ways that surveillance technology is acquired and deployed, often in the name of security, contributes to the establishment of a culture where surveillance is normalized. However, this move is not devoid of tensions, as the high social costs of surveillance efforts become visible and sectors of civil society begin to challenge the emerging sociotechnical status quo. I also point to the ways that these developments have made an impact beyond Mexican borders, in the global surveillance technology market, and among global advocacy movements organizing around privacy rights. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)