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Texas lawmakers want to erase abortion from the internet

Texas legislators take aim at online information about abortion, in what may become a new strategy for abortion opponents in a post-Roe America

Erica Hellerstein

Nigeria’s digital vote-counting failure decimated public trust in elections

Election officials promised that digitization would make for a more transparent and fair election. But it has done the opposite

People power pushes back 'Putin’s law' in Georgia

Protests forced the Georgian government to withdraw draft legislation limiting 'foreign influence' on civil society and the media. But the retreat might only be temporary

Will Neal

Egypt jails its critics as the economy crumbles

Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s failed economic policies get global attention, but his human rights record escapes similar scrutiny

Europe’s borders are a surveillance testing ground. The AI Act could change that

With the EU AI Act, tech companies and border enforcement agencies could be held accountable for the first time

Isobel Cockerell

Nigeria plunges into a cash crisis on the eve of presidential elections

Lengthy queues outside Nigerian banks and mounting anger has made the country’s cash crisis a hot button issue

What a law designed to protect the internet has to do with abortion

A Supreme Court ruling on Section 230 could limit online access to abortion information

Erica Hellerstein

China is gaining control of the world’s data as the US stands by

Global data trafficking presents security risks that most countries are not prepared to handle, Aynne Kokas argues in her new book

Liam Scott

Mandatory SIM card registration forces users to surrender personal data

The Philippines joins a long list of countries requiring mobile users to register their SIM cards. But the digital breadcrumbs SIM cards create can pose risks for people in the physical world.

Chris Stokel-Walker

Stakes are momentous for the next battles for control of the global internet

Voting prevented control of the United Nations’ internet standard-setting body falling into Russian hands last month. But it’s far from the last battle to be fought for the future of the internet

Chris Stokel-Walker

Is Indonesia criminalizing journalism?

New regulations have been implemented, and more drafted, to enable the government to control digital discourse and free expression

Liam Scott

In Beirut, taxi app Bolt spreads despair in an already devastated economy

From Durban to London, Bolt drivers have gone on strike to demand better conditions. But in Lebanon, the app operates with impunity, thriving amid chaos

The race to save everything as war threatens the internet in Ukraine and Russia

With digital records facing obliteration, internet archivists say what’s at stake is the historical record of Ukraine, Russia, and the war

China ordered a Uyghur journalist extradited to Xinjiang. His wife has taken to the Istanbul streets to stop it

Buzainuer Wubuli is determined to outmaneuver the pressure China exerts on foreign governments to have her husband, Idris Hasan, released from a Morocco prison before he is sent back to Xinjiang

Western companies face withering criticism on how they exit authoritarian states

The Norwegian telecoms company Telenor has been trying to get out of Myanmar. A fast sale could leave millions of people exposed to military surveillance

Caitlin Thompson

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