Social Media Ethiopia’s internet shutdown is silencing migrant workers stranded in Lebanon Caught between an economic crisis and a news blackout, this vulnerable community is struggling to be heard dispatch Emily Lewis
Surveillance of minority Muslims in southern Thailand is powered by Chinese-style tech Mandatory biometric registration has left many Malay Muslims distrustful of the state and concerned about how new technologies will impact their lives dispatch Nithin Coca
Scaled-up surveillance: the EU builds a massive biometric database An upcoming biometrics repository will hold the records of 300 million people and could hand a potentially powerful surveillance tool to its member states dispatch Daniel Trilling
TikTok apologizes after being accused of censoring #blacklivesmatter posts follow-up Isobel Cockerell
Face matching and digital avatars coming to the EU's borders Across Europe, leaders have been desperately seeking new ways to secure borders. Concerns over migration have contributed to the evolution of new forms of authoritarian technology dispatch Cara Tabachnick
Russia’s Internet, already dim, gets darker Censorship and new laws block online information and stifle digital life dispatch Matej Voda
I tested the UK's coronavirus app. Here's what I found The British government is testing a tracking and tracing app on a small island off the coast of England. Its success could determine how the coronavirus pandemic is contained elsewhere dispatch Amber Beard
India was already a surveillance state. Its Covid-19 app goes even further Concerns about the government’s new contact-tracing software stretch back more than a decade, to its controversial biometric data scheme dispatch Gautama Mehta
Lebanon’s currency is collapsing. The government’s solution? Ban exchange rate apps The nation’s economy is in freefall, but this latest move forms part of a wider pattern of online censorship dispatch Emily Lewis
Tech company's ties to white supremacism trigger debate on surveillance algorithms Revelations call for transparency in how artificial intelligence is used by law enforcement dispatch Brett Bachman
