Technology Software snoops on students during exams A new report on the use of surveillance software in remote exam taking raises concerns of bias and privacy infringement brief Rachel Sherman
Technology Ahead by a nose: Covid sniffing dogs prevent surveillance overreach A UK security company says it’s ditching some surveillance tech in favor of specially-trained dogs who can detect the coronavirus brief Isobel Cockerell
Technology Legal backlash and user hacks compromise India’s Covid-19 app A high court has ruled that individuals do not have to download the contact tracing platform to access public services, while some who have just turn it off brief Mariam Kiparoidze
Technology Ukraine's controversial cybersecurity deal with Huawei From the U.S. to Europe, the Chinese telecoms giant is facing sanctions and suspicion — but Kyiv is playing a different game brief Katia Patin
Technology Is TikTok’s free-speech honeymoon over in Russia? The video-sharing platform has been a safe haven for activists and outspoken young people, but now that is changing dispatch Natalia Zamorskaya and Katia Patin
Technology How San Francisco police surveillance closed in on Black Lives Matter protests Activists and privacy advocates say police use of indiscriminate monitoring erodes fundamental freedoms dispatch Caitlin Thompson
Technology Life in India's digital dystopia Hyderabad’s IT industry brought jobs and growth to the city. Critics now say the same technology is being used to watch the moves of every citizen feature Varsha Bansal
Technology Investors pressured to cut ties to Xinjiang Campaign groups are calling for individuals and corporations to ensure that the brands they support have no links to Beijing’s ongoing abuses of Uyghur human rights dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Technology The most-surveilled cities in the world are almost all in China follow-up Isobel Cockerell
Technology Russian opposition files lawsuit against Moscow’s use of facial recognition tech follow-up Mariam Kiparoidze
