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Delhi school teachers fight attendance app over privacy fears
Firms sucking carbon from air see boost from climate 'code red'
How 9/11 shaped U.S. mass surveillance and stifled digital rights
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Coronavirus and surveillance
In Depth
Urban humans: Cities go up, down and high-tech to combat threats
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
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Smart glasses to speakers: Keep privacy risks in mind
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
LGBT+ websites censored from Russia to Indonesia
From apps to air miles: 7 ways tech can help Afghans
No jobs, passports for 'anti-national' social media posts in India
China issues draft guidelines for internet algorithms
China’s new data laws leave firms with more questions than answers
Amid Lebanon blackouts, dark comedy offers glimmer of light
Afghan all-girl robotics team members, journalists land in Mexico
Digital detox: Is taking a break from tech good for you?
Afghan women's faces disappear after Taliban takeover
Luxury to essential: Latam boosts internet access in pandemic
PayPal launches crypto buying and selling in the UK
FOCUS-For bank regulators, tech giants are now too big to fail
Afghan panic over digital history spurs data collection rethink
Policy groups ask Apple to drop plans to inspect iMessages, scan f
Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
Taliban's Afghanistan takeover presents challenge for social media
Amazon's palm print recognition raises concern from U.S. senators
What is AI? Free online courses aim to get everyone up to speed
U.S. lawmakers introduce bill to rein in Apple, Google app stores
factbox
Slowdowns and shutdowns: Africans challenge internet restrictions
From Middle East to India, women 'violated' in Pegasus hack
US prisons explore use of AI to analyze inmate phone calls
explainer
Indigenous land dispute dogs Amazon's Africa expansion
insight
Pegasus spy scandal: after years, no answers for Mexico victims
Protesters march in France for fourth weekend over COVID-19 pass
explainer
How can artificial intelligence help fight climate change?
analysis
Privacy concerns hobble Nigeria's digital ID push
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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
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Data law will not rein in China’s ‘techno-authoritarianism’

What does China’s new data protection law mean for users’ privacy?
Agnes Callamard Amnesty International

NSO Group Spyware is the must-have tool for repressive governments

Spyware used to spy on people, what’s the big deal? Look who NSO Group’s clients are spying on – academics, lawyers, and activists. Who knows maybe even you?
Koketso Moeti Activist

How COVID-19 helped diminish online civic spaces

The COVID-19 crisis underscored the importance of online public spaces, but it also helped shut it down, criminalise dissent and diminish freedoms

In Depth

Catching fire: AI is helping scarce firefighters better predict blazes
Drones to digital: Asia, Africa find ways to plug COVID health gaps
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U.S. small towns take on energy-guzzling bitcoin miners
analysis
ANALYSIS - Viable plan or security theatre? Europe embraces digital health pass

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