Technology 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 feature Dan Hancox
Technology 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 dispatch Varsha Bansal
Technology Letter from Delhi: Indians rue a government that snoops but doesn’t listen As Independence Day nears, the scale of India’s NSO spyware scandal reveals an unprecedented and potentially unlawful assault on individual liberty and personal privacy essay Aman Sethi
Technology ‘People say that if you want a smart city, you’ve got to give up privacy. The hell you do’ Ann Cavoukian explains why invasive surveillance shouldn’t be the norm in modern and sustainable urban environments q&a Caitlin Thompson
Technology Letter from London: Ransomware is wreaking havoc in Hackney A cyber-attack on a cash-strapped local council has brought public services to their knees essay Burhan Wazir
Technology Greece aims long-range sound cannons at migrants across its border A new generation of audio weapons makes the latest offensive in a decades-long war of sound feature Isobel Cockerell
Technology Governments around the world used Pegasus spyware to target journalists and activists. What do we do about it? David Kaye, former U.N. special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of freedom of opinion and expression, explains why military grade spyware needs regulation q&a Caitlin Thompson
Technology The hacker who spent a year reclaiming his face from Clearview AI Matthias Marx has spearheaded an international campaign to place more controls on facial recognition technology q&a Isobel Cockerell
Technology Between the US and Mexico, a corridor of surveillance becomes lethal Immigrants, asylum seekers, and criminal gangs are all caught up in the Biden Administration's deadly surveillance dragnet feature Erica Hellerstein
Technology How much does your car know about you — and who else can get their hands on your data? A cybersecurity expert tells us what can happen to the vast amount of personal information collected by new vehicles q&a Mariam Kiparoidze
Technology The murky Chinese surveillance company at the center of a UK health ministry scandal The UK’s Department of Health and around 65% of local authorities use cameras made by Hikvision, a Chinese company linked to human rights abuses in Xinjiang explainer Isobel Cockerell
Technology Police surveillance technology in India reinforces caste prejudice A team of lawyers and activists say that the introduction of surveillance tools to the criminal justice system amplifies its bias q&a Mariam Kiparoidze
Technology The devastating toll of South Korea’s digital sex crime epidemic From hidden spy cameras to revenge porn, South Korean women are being targeted by sex criminals and face steep barriers to justice brief Erica Hellerstein
Technology The ‘seductive surveillance’ of voice recognition Voice recognition companies are getting unprecedented amounts of information about the behavioral habits of their consumers q&a Caitlin Thompson
Technology Former Xinjiang police officer describes torture in Uyghur detention centers Testimony given at a London tribunal details the tracking, detention and abuse of ethnic minorities in northwest China dispatch Isobel Cockerell
