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

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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
Apple bows to Beijing, again; Turkey blocks social media after Istanbul blast; more Musk mayhem at Twitter

17 Nov, 2022
Greece bans spyware, Belarus ramps up web surveillance, and Twitter deepens its Saudi ties

10 Nov, 2022
Hate speech spikes on Musk’s watch; another internet blackout in Myanmar; Egypt’s paranoia on show at COP27

3 Nov, 2022
With runoff election fast approaching, Big Tech failures in Brazil leave voters awash in disinformation

25 Oct, 2022
Repressive regimes around the world are nationalizing the internet and isolating people

18 Oct, 2022
EU need for Azerbaijani gas emboldens authoritarian Aliyev

11 Oct, 2022

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