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Africa urged to wake up to growing state surveillance threat
Click selfie, vote: India tests mobile ballot despite privacy fear
Pushback against AI policing in Europe heats up over racism fears
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Coronavirus and surveillance
In Depth
Urban humans: Cities go up, down and high-tech to combat threats
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Why social media sites are inviting people to share their pronouns
'It's our stuff': consumers wage right-to-repair revolution
Agri-tech digital tools boost crops for farmers across Africa
Rural U.S. county split over multi-billion dollar data center boom
Afghans embrace cryptocurrency amid financial chaos
One month on, El Salvador's bitcoin use grows but problems persist
Amazon's Twitch hit by data breach due to configuration error
If Facebook is the problem, is a social media regulator the fix?
'Digital divide' hits rural Black Americans hardest
Who wins, who loses from the boom in climate prediction startups?
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Facebook down: What the outage meant for the developing world
Lebanon collapse: Digital vigilantes hold powerful to account
EU politicians call for Facebook investigation after revelations
Poland seeks to bolster border with new tech amid migrant influx
Asia's gig workers strive to match global gains on labour rights
El Salvador's bitcoin 'experiment' sidelines digital poor
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Amazon Astro to speakers: Keep privacy risks in mind
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Amazon is enticing workers with college fees. What's the catch?
African sex workers face digital abuse as COVID pushes them online
China's tech crackdown - for consumers' good or greater control?
California governor signs legislation to protect warehouse workers
Polish gene project moves to drop Chinese tech on data concerns
Social entrepreneurs fight to make gig work fairer, greener
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Why are BMW and Daimler being sued over climate change?
Young Lebanese driving crypto 'revolution' after banks go bust
Al Gore-backed climate project to track emissions in real-time
Pollution to products? Recycled carbon emissions come to consumers
Cyber crime spreads in Australia as COVID pushes people online
Firms sucking carbon from air see boost from climate 'code red'
Delhi school teachers fight attendance app over privacy fears
How 9/11 shaped U.S. mass surveillance and stifled digital rights
U.S. presses Facebook, Amazon on curbing vaccine misinformation
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Is Bitcoin a game-changer for migrant workers?
How 9/11 fallout proved a boon for surveillance, bane for rights
Amazon labor conditions under scrutiny by California lawmakers
Wikimedia awards grants to tackle racial inequality
Money, mimicry, mind control: Big Tech slams ethics brakes on AI
El Salvador's adoption of bitcoin sees bumpy first day
El Salvador leads world into cryptocurrency: bitcoin legal tender
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Bitcoin: Seven places that want you to spend your virtual currency
WhatsApp fined a record 225 mln euro by Ireland over privacy
'Don't let us die': U.S. gig workers brace for benefits cutoff
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OPINION: Time to truly tackle online child sexual exploitation

Ruby (not her real name) is a survivor of online child sexual exploitation in the Philippines. Now an adult, she is committed to raising awareness about the abuse she suffered and the actions government and tech industries must take to truly eradicate this crime.
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To fix our food systems, we need tech for smallholder farmers

Digital innovations in food systems aren’t reaching the people who need them most
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UK Online Safety Bill risks emboldening digital authoritarians

The UK’s Online Safety Bill could be used to justify other repressive internet regulations, already on the rise

In Depth

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