Technology Italy looks to tech to limit the spread of the coronavirus A national task force exploring how data from mobile phones could limit the spread of Covid-19 has sparked a debate over privacy and data protection feature Cecilia Butini
Technology Surveillance gets the graphic novel treatment From the Bible to biometrics, a new graphic novel looks at the history of surveillance feature Burhan Wazir
Technology Marseille’s fight against AI surveillance The southern French city, once synonymous with urban crime, now encapsulates the spread of AI surveillance driven by Chinese companies dispatch Morgan Meaker
Technology Russian rideshare app Yandex.Taxi shares user data with police A police officer on trial for framing investigative reporter Ivan Golunov revealed he learned the journalist’s address by requesting his ride history from an app co-owned by Uber dispatch Gautama Mehta
Technology Gunshot detection technology raises concerns of bias and inaccuracy A controversial gunshot detection system used by police departments in over 100 U.S. cities raises questions about how technology is deployed by law enforcement dispatch Prince Shakur
Technology Surveillance and security in Delhi’s schools In a bid to boost classroom discipline, Delhi is installing 150,000 cameras in government-run schools across the city dispatch Megha Bahree
Technology How China spies on Uyghurs in Turkey WhatsApp and WeChat are used to intimidate and surveil Uyghurs feature John Beck
Technology A school communication app gamifies the classroom Parents says the popular app ClassDojo raises fears about teacher bias feature Africa Jackson
Technology The Londoners using face paint to trick facial recognition A group of Londoners defy security cameras by walking through the city in surreal face paint dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Technology Whoop Whoop! Juggalo face paint has an anti-surveillance side From police photographers to the risk of doxxing, facial recognition software is a threat at protests. Here, one activist writes about how a low key countermeasure inspired by the face painting fans of a musical group offers anonymity — for now dispatch Kitty Stryker
Technology North Korean refugees are at the center of massive data leak North Korean refugees feel terrorized by Kim Jong-un’s hacker army dispatch Chaewon Chung
Technology How the UK government replaced disability services with surveillance tech From ‘telecare’ systems for people with disabilities to online-only social services, technology is having a profound impact on the lives of socially excluded people in the UK feature Emily Reynolds
Technology Coda Follows Up: documents reveal how China orchestrated mass detentions in Xinjiang follow-up Isobel Cockerell
Technology 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
