The occupational hazards of cleaning the internet A new lawsuit against tech giant Reddit underscores the global struggle of content moderators feature Erica Hellerstein
Nigeria plunges into a cash crisis on the eve of presidential elections Lengthy queues outside Nigerian banks and mounting anger has made the country’s cash crisis a hot button issue feature Ope Adetayo
Forget milk and eggs: Supermarkets are having a fire sale on data about you When you use supermarket discount cards, you are sharing much more than what is in your cart — and grocery chains like Kroger are reaping huge profits selling this data to brands and advertisers feature Jon Keegan
Is Russia’s anti-war movement changing people’s minds? Russia’s Green Ribbon activists persevere online, despite the real-life risks of resistance feature Colleen Wood
Be real or be stalked? Privacy pitfalls of Gen-Z’s favorite app The photo-sharing app’s location settings put a new twist on age-old privacy problems feature Isobel Cockerell
On the internet, anyone can be a grief therapist now Practitioners and clients struggle to navigate the unregulated counseling certification industry feature Astrid Landon
UK supermarket uses facial recognition tech to track shoppers Biometric cameras scan faces and add shoppers to a secret watchlist of suspects, holding their data for years feature Frankie Vetch
'Undercurrents: Tech, Tyrants and Us,' a new podcast series In partnership with Audible, Coda presents eight stories from around the world of people caught up in the struggle between tech, democracy and dictatorship podcast Coda Staff
The machine is inside you Implanted body technologies are reaching the point of ‘uberveillance’ where Big Brother is on the inside looking out q&a Caitlin Thompson
The year in authoritarian tech trends A round-up of Coda’s top authoritarian tech stories that were stranger than fiction, from actual killer robots to the post-Roe abortion surveillance dragnet roundup Erica Hellerstein
In South Korea, women are fighting to end digital sex crimes Amid South Korea's culture of surveillance, students, lawyers and bathroom inspectors are working to eradicate spy cameras feature Kenneth R. Rosen
Democrats want to prevent attacks on dissidents living in the US A new congressional bill would penalize foreign regimes for targeting dissidents in the U.S., but partisanship and geopolitics risk getting in the way Frankie Vetch
Killer robots have arrived to Ukrainian battlefields A new generation of autonomous machines is appearing in Ukraine. They augur a new military era, offering capabilities that far outstrip current weapons feature Ilya Gridneff
Stakes are momentous for the next battles for control of the global internet Voting prevented control of the United Nations’ internet standard-setting body falling into Russian hands last month. But it’s far from the last battle to be fought for the future of the internet feature Chris Stokel-Walker
Stakes turn deadly as Iran’s government threatens the phone apps aiding protesters Can technology used to oppress Iranians also be used to liberate them? feature Rayan El Amine
