Surveillance Whoop Whoop! Juggalo face paint has an anti-surveillance side From police photographers to the risk of doxxing, facial recognition software is a threat at protests. Here, one activist writes about how a low key countermeasure inspired by the face painting fans of a musical group offers anonymity — for now dispatch Kitty Stryker
Surveillance North Korean refugees are at the center of massive data leak North Korean refugees feel terrorized by Kim Jong-un’s hacker army dispatch Chaewon Chung
Surveillance How the UK government replaced disability services with surveillance tech From ‘telecare’ systems for people with disabilities to online-only social services, technology is having a profound impact on the lives of socially excluded people in the UK feature Emily Reynolds
Surveillance Coda Follows Up: documents reveal how China orchestrated mass detentions in Xinjiang follow-up Isobel Cockerell
My trip to Brussels made me think about the gig economy and the early industrial age newsletter Inge Snip
Social Media Arrested for two tweets in Croatia The case of a journalist arrested for criticizing the government provides a grim example of a global trend which sees social media users increasingly criminalized dispatch Morgan Meaker
Surveillance Russia is building one of the world’s largest facial recognition networks According to some projections, it may even be bigger than China’s 200 million camera system dispatch Felix Light
Surveillance In China, social credit is just a more invasive form of social media For ordinary Chinese, the rise of social credit can be social and even fun dispatch Rui Zhong
“Every leap in technology is used to better monitor, trap, and villainize us.” newsletter Burhan Wazir
Surveillance Pakistan moves to install nationwide 'web monitoring system' Pakistan’s outsourcing of web monitoring to a controversial Canada-based company raises concerns about censorship dispatch Umer Ali and Ramsha Jahangir
