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
Surveillance A digital echo of the Khmer Rouge haunts phones in Cambodia A pattern of phone taps, leaks and arrests is reminding some Cambodians of Pol Pot’s tactics dispatch Andrew Nachemson and Kong Meta
Surveillance Moscow’s 'smart city' program is going global. Russian activists say it targets political opponents A four-day tech conference in Yerevan featured star speakers, including Kim Kardashian West and the founder of Reddit. It also raised questions about Moscow’s growing use of surveillance technology dispatch Isobel Cockerell and Katia Patin
Surveillance How TikTok opened a window into China’s police state Uyghurs are gaming TikTok’s algorithm to find a loophole in Xinjiangs’s information lockdown feature Isobel Cockerell
Legal Tools Mobile credit expands mass surveillance of ordinary Kenyans ‘Fintech’ apps bring credit to poor Kenyans. Debt and invasions of privacy are part of the deal dispatch Keren Weitzberg
Are we really living in the age of a “cyber arms race” and an “information Iron Curtain?” newsletter Katia Patin