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Authoritarian Tech

Authoritarian Tech

From biometrics to surveillance — when people in power abuse technology, the rest of us suffer. Written by Ellery Biddle.

From biometrics to surveillance — when people in power abuse technology, the rest of us suffer. Written by Ellery Biddle.

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  • How Twitter is doing the government’s bidding in India

    23 Mar

  • Digital data is becoming key evidence in abortion lawsuits

    16 Mar

  • Smoking gun evidence of state surveillance tech in the U.S. and Mexico

    9 Mar

  • The digital dimensions of Russia’s war, one year on

    2 Mar

  • Meta’s paid verification plan will push more users to the margins

    23 Feb

  • With elections looming, Modi and Erdogan are going after fake news

    16 Feb

  • Twitter falters in Turkey, Pakistan blocks Wikipedia, and Tibetans stare down a new cyberlaw

    9 Feb

  • Hong Kongers fear a great firewall, TikTokers arrested in Egypt, spyware in Central America

    2 Feb

  • ‘Small boat’ photos could be censored in the UK, Google’s abortion data problem, the low wage workers  behind AI

    26 Jan

  • AI advances shock and awe regulators, Saudi Arabia jails Wikipedia editors, Myanmar’s spyware deal

    19 Jan

  • Bolsonaristas riot, Meta blocks ‘dangerous’ dead people, sedition laws silence Hong Kongers

    12 Jan

  • Facebook’s fatal failures in Ethiopia, terrorism on YouTube and the not-so-new problem of toxic Twitter

    22 Dec, 2022

  • Twitter’s war on bots cuts off users, Indonesia criminalizes online dissent, and US bill could block TikTok

    15 Dec, 2022

  • Russian tech giant Yandex erases damaged Ukrainian buildings from maps; Iranian regime thrives on Telegram

    8 Dec, 2022

  • Chinese protesters back Iranian women, Ethiopia hosts internet meet while keeping the internet off, and NSO’s legal woes

    1 Dec, 2022

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