Coda Follows Up: documents reveal how China orchestrated mass detentions in Xinjiang follow-up Isobel Cockerell
My trip to Brussels made me think about the gig economy and the early industrial age newsletter Inge Snip
Arrested for two tweets in Croatia The case of a journalist arrested for criticizing the government provides a grim example of a global trend which sees social media users increasingly criminalized dispatch Morgan Meaker
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
In China, social credit is just a more invasive form of social media For ordinary Chinese, the rise of social credit can be social and even fun dispatch Rui Zhong
“Every leap in technology is used to better monitor, trap, and villainize us.” newsletter Burhan Wazir
Surveillance Pakistan moves to install nationwide 'web monitoring system' Pakistan’s outsourcing of web monitoring to a controversial Canada-based company raises concerns about censorship dispatch Umer Ali and Ramsha Jahangir
A digital echo of the Khmer Rouge haunts phones in Cambodia A pattern of phone taps, leaks and arrests is reminding some Cambodians of Pol Pot’s tactics dispatch Andrew Nachemson
Moscow’s 'smart city' program is going global. Russian activists say it targets political opponents A four-day tech conference in Yerevan featured star speakers, including Kim Kardashian West and the founder of Reddit. It also raised questions about Moscow’s growing use of surveillance technology dispatch Isobel Cockerell and Katia Patin
