Technology 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
Technology 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
Technology 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
Technology 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
Technology 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
Technology Influential US scientist under fire for Xinjiang links Calls for Michigan State University to review its research activities in China after a leading computer scientist gave a keynote speech at the country’s largest biometrics conference dispatch Charles Rollet
Technology Western Academia Helps Build China’s Automated Racism Researchers in China are developing new and more invasive techniques to surveil Uyghurs. Some of their work is being supported by academia in the West feature Charles Rollet
Technology The war for truth in Myanmar’s cyberspace A decade ago in Myanmar, a SIM card could cost as much as $2,000. Facebook now has 18 million local users and is a parallel space for the conflict in Rakhine State dispatch Kayleigh Long
Technology Silicon Valley’s scramble for China Western technology companies have played a pivotal role in building China’s authoritarian smart cities dispatch Nafeez Ahmed
Technology China’s Digital Wall Around Tibet For decades, Tibetans crossed the Himalayas to seek refuge in Nepal. Now, a digital wall has cut them off from the world dispatch Nithin Coca
Technology Fleeing Saudi sisters issue plea for help and a message for Apple and Google After escaping a lifetime of abuse at the hands of their families, the two women have called for the removal of a controversial Western-backed app which restricts the lives of many Saudi women dispatch Katia Patin
Technology The Fight for Transparency in Ghana After two decades of delays, Ghana’s new Right to Information bill was passed last week. It was supposed to open the country’s institutions and empower investigative reporters in the fight against corruption, but it may have the opposite effect dispatch Kofi Yeboah
Technology Zimbabwe Drifts Towards Online Darkness Ordinary Zimbabweans face a new era of repression from surveillance systems created in China and Japan feature Ray Mwareya
Technology Surveillance and Internet Disruption in Baku The authorities in Azerbaijan don’t need to shut down the internet or social media. They can achieve control by disruption alone feature Arzu Geybulla
