Technology

Modern technology was supposed to end dictatorship. But will it end democracy instead?

Pakistan’s biometric ID scheme is stripping citizenship from thousands of people

The National Database and Registration Authority has received global praise for the design and maintenance of a vast system that holds the information of 98% of the country’s population. For some, however, it is making normal life impossible

I was 19 years old and working at a nightclub — then I got caught up in a government phone-hacking scandal

In October, Georgia was rocked by revelations that the country's security services had been eavesdropping on its citizens for years. Coda Story's Makuna Berkatsashvili was targeted by the operation under the strangest of circumstances. This is her story

Makuna Berkatsashvili

A photographer and artist walk into a fake news factory

In the Book of Veles, Jonas Bendiksen's controversial new photobook, the joke is on us

Future Wake: the AI art project that predicts police violence

Winner of the Mozilla Creative Media award for 2021, an interactive website calculates when and where fatal encounters with law enforcement will occur — and tells the stories of the victims

Caitlin Thompson

'The people who control are also being controlled'

The art of Salvatore Vitale examines the array of surveillance technology that surrounds us all

It’s not too late to regulate deepfakes

A legal expert makes the case for international regulation of social media companies and sites hosting manipulated videos

For a dissident living in Germany, China's digital policing is winning

Liu Dejun, the subject of an Ai Weiwei documentary, brawls China's hardening censorship and surveillance

Isobel Cockerell

Authoritarian regimes are using Interpol to hunt down their critics

An international arrest notice, designed to deter crime, is being exploited by human rights violators, including China and Russia

Mariam Kiparoidze

Who's homeless enough for housing? In San Francisco, an algorithm decides

Replacing human decision making with a computerized scoring system is hurting California's most vulnerable residents

Caitlin Thompson

Jamaica is poised to end data privacy

A controversial new digital ID bill that would store citizens’ biometric information could be replicated across the Caribbean

Erica Hellerstein

Your Bluetooth headphones could be vulnerable to surveillance

Wireless devices emit large amounts of identifying data which can be easily gathered and analyzed, a new study reveals

Mariam Kiparoidze

"Last chance for justice" Russian government absolved of activist's murder

A European court ruled the Kremlin isn't responsible for Natalia Estemirova's death in Chechnya. Her daughter warns of the message this sends on human rights in Russia

Secret radio stations, V2 rockets, offshore tax havens: the photographic explorations of Lewis Bush

From traditional camera work to material sourced from military archives and Google Maps, these images perfectly illustrate our strange new reality

Riot police, body scanners and social breakdown in toy town

An array of childhood playthings are normalizing the concepts of surveillance and state control for the youngest of minds

Dan Hancox

How healthcare workers in India fought a surveillance regime and won

The Indian government has become notorious for using technology to monitor and track blue collar employees

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