Technology Escaping China with a spoon and a rusty nail How one Uyghur man fled Xinjiang via the notorious smugglers' road and broke out of a Thai prison first person Hashim Mohammed and Isobel Cockerell
Technology Chatbots of the dead AI grief chatbots can help us talk to loved ones from beyond the grave. Are we okay with that? q&a Isobel Cockerell
Technology How Somali workers in the US are fighting Amazon’s surveillance machine Minnesota just passed a labor bill that could force Amazon to respect the rights of warehouse workers feature Erica Hellerstein
Technology Immigrating to the US? ICE wants your biometrics From ankle monitors to smart watches, the Biden administration has overseen a boom in tech-driven immigrant surveillance. Two new documents shed light on the program’s scope and practices feature Erica Hellerstein
Technology Europe cracks down on China’s abuse of extradition European courts are blocking extraditions to China, but Beijing has plenty of other tools to target dissidents living abroad feature Frankie Vetch
Technology Forget milk and eggs: Supermarkets are having a fire sale on data about you When you use supermarket discount cards, you are sharing much more than what is in your cart — and grocery chains like Kroger are reaping huge profits selling this data to brands and advertisers feature Jon Keegan
Technology In a cashless society, banking and tech elites control everything A world without paper money should worry us, says author Brett Scott q&a Isobel Cockerell
Technology Watching the streets of Medellín The surveillance cameras of Colombia’s police are no match for the hundreds of “eyes” employed by street gangs essay Juan David Restrepo Ortiz
Technology How surveillance tech helped protect power — and the drug trade — in Honduras Our investigation of how big-name monitoring software from Israel and the US made Honduras a hotbed of spy tech feature Anna-Catherine Brigida
Technology For Italy's right wing, cash is still king Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wants Italians to keep using cash. As the EU moves toward a cashless future, she’s become an unlikely ally for small businesses and privacy advocates feature Isobel Cockerell
Technology 'Undercurrents: Tech, Tyrants and Us,' a new podcast series In partnership with Audible, Coda presents eight stories from around the world of people caught up in the struggle between tech, democracy and dictatorship podcast Coda Staff
Technology Can the world’s de facto tech regulator really rein in AI? AI software is advancing much faster than the law. The European Union is working to catch up feature Chris Stokel-Walker
Technology The year in authoritarian tech trends A round-up of Coda’s top authoritarian tech stories that were stranger than fiction, from actual killer robots to the post-Roe abortion surveillance dragnet roundup Erica Hellerstein
Technology The year in cross-border repression campaigns Regimes are becoming bolder in targeting dissidents abroad. Here are some of the worst cases from 2022 roundup Frankie Vetch
Technology In South Korea, women are fighting to end digital sex crimes Amid South Korea's culture of surveillance, students, lawyers and bathroom inspectors are working to eradicate spy cameras feature Kenneth R. Rosen
