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Today’s most innovative police states owe more to Mark Zuckerberg than to Joseph Stalin.

Surveillance
Chatbots of the dead
q&a
Isobel Cockerell
Surveillance
How Somali workers in the US are fighting Amazon’s surveillance machine
q&a
Erica Hellerstein
Surveillance
Immigrating to the US? ICE wants your biometrics
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Erica Hellerstein
Surveillance
A mobile app is costing India’s poorest workers their wages
feature
Arbab Ali
Surveillance
‘I felt like I was a prisoner’: The rapid rise of US immigration authorities’ electronic surveillance programs
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Erica Hellerstein
Surveillance
Threatened, harassed, punished: The Uyghur translators defying China to tell Xinjiang’s story
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Frankie Vetch
Surveillance
Why targeting ethnic minority journalists is central to China’s crackdown on the press
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Erica Hellerstein
Surveillance
A blanket of surveillance covers Calais, but more migrants are dying at sea than ever before
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Isobel Cockerell
News Archive
16 October 2019
China’s digital Little Red Book could access all your data
24 July 2019
Another US city bans police facial recognition, but it’s an uphill battle
17 April 2019
Google’s sharing of personal data with law enforcement prompts concerns
15 April 2019
Microsoft’s AI research project in China prompts criticism
29 March 2019
Pentagon pilot brings big data to HR
27 March 2019
“Don’t believe newspapers” — controversial surveillance firm CEO defends himself on TV
9 March 2019
UK Government Trade Fair Peddles Tech to Authoritarian Regimes
5 March 2019
New U.S. Report Warns of Facial Recognition Dangers