Clouds gather over Google’s Saudi deal Saudi dissidents accuse the tech giant of bolstering a brutal dictatorship with its plan to provide cloud computing in the kingdom feature Andrew North
The dark side of open source intelligence Internet sleuths have used publicly available data to help track down last week’s Washington D.C. rioters. But what happens when the wrong people are identified? feature Rachel Sherman
Will the Capitol riot change public opinion about facial recognition? Despite concerns about accuracy, the attack on Congress could lead to more support for the use of AI surveillance systems brief Gautama Mehta
Coming soon: Turkmenistan’s government-backed email and messaging app The launch could tighten the government’s grip on digital spaces in a country where popular social media platforms are already banned brief Mariam Kiparoidze
ASMR YouTubers fight testing fears with Covid role-play videos Now that human contact has become all too rare, intimately whispered YouTube videos are providing reassurance to millions of viewers feature Isobel Cockerell
Ukraine's controversial cybersecurity deal with Huawei From the U.S. to Europe, the Chinese telecoms giant is facing sanctions and suspicion — but Kyiv is playing a different game brief Katia Patin
Pakistan's Tinder ban signals coming showdowns with YouTube and Twitter Pakistan pushes Silicon Valley for more censorship dispatch Ramsha Jahangir
Disinformation from China floods Taiwan’s most popular messaging app A messaging tool called Line has been used to spread false information about Covid-19 and downplay reports of human rights abuses in China dispatch Nithin Coca
Is TikTok’s free-speech honeymoon over in Russia? The video-sharing platform has been a safe haven for activists and outspoken young people, but now that is changing dispatch Natalia Zamorskaya and Katia Patin
Life in India's digital dystopia Hyderabad’s IT industry brought jobs and growth to the city. Critics now say the same technology is being used to watch the moves of every citizen feature Varsha Bansal
Belarus’ Telegram rebels take on Europe’s last dictatorship Dozens of channels are being used to organize demonstrations and publish news that Belarusians cannot access elsewhere dispatch Glenn Kates and Katia Patin
Egypt’s TikTok crackdown targets young female influencers A vaguely defined cybercrime bill has seen the government convict Egyptian social media stars with millions of followers feature Mat Nashed
