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Zoom urged by rights groups to rule out 'creepy' AI emotion tech
EU eyes Big Tech to police child sex abuse online
Chatbots in U.S. justice system raise bias, privacy concerns
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Life on the line: Deadly risks for world's food delivery drivers
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Coronavirus and surveillance
Uganda sued over digital ID system that excludes millions
E-scooters for nurses speed healthcare in Indian mining hub
Does the crypto crash pose a threat to the financial system?
Content moderator in Kenya sues Meta over working conditions
Gay dating app Grindr to go public in $2.1 billion deal
Pandemic tempts U.S. technology workers away from Silicon Valley
Philippine Nobel winner Ressa says Facebook 'biased against facts'
Elon Musk Twitter deal stirs fears of abuse in Asia, Middle East
Drones to data: Africans turn to healthtech
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Bitcoin: Eight places that want you to spend your virtual currency
Pakistan women fight gender norms to build online health business
Digital volunteers race to save Ukraine's art and heritage
Can tech help hold climate polluters to their net-zero pledges?
How investigators fact-check Ukraine war footage
Shanghai residents use code words, video to protest COVID lockdown
Ukraine's betting on crypto to help fund the war. Is it working?
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U.S. bitcoin mining under fire for climate, energy impact
Philippine 'Avengers' battle disinformation before election
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Are crypto donations having an impact in Ukraine?
Nigeria blocks 73 million mobile phones in security clampdown
Britons embrace savings apps as inflation hits household finances
As Malaysia tests AI court sentencing, lawyers fear for justice
Russians switch to homegrown social media amid Ukraine crackdown
South Africa's WhatsApp groups fuel racism and surveillance
U.S. gig worker murders expose apps' safety gaps, says labor group
In Brazil, satellites help scientists target Amazon forest losses
Removing carbon from air vital to reach climate goals, IPCC says
Ukrainian software engineers see lives upended by war
India bets on satellite broadband to bridge rural digital divide
video trustdocs
How investigators fact-check Ukraine war footage
Behind Russia's 'digital iron curtain', tech workarounds thrive
Internet woes shatter young Yemeni dreams of startups and studies
analysis
Facebook's 'double standard' on hate speech against Russians
Indians fight in court for right to be forgotten online
Urban Indians beat space crunch by investing in digital solar
Refugees battle digital divide to stay documented in South Africa
analysis
Pandemic surveillance: is tracing tech here to stay?
Asian farmers turn to tech for labour, climate challenges
Asian workers pushed to upskill as pandemic quickens digital shift
Middle East police search LGBTQ+ people's phones to jail them
Ukraine war: Can Russia use crypto to avoid sanctions?
Ukraine crisis highlights Big Tech's clout in everyday life
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Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl DIGITALEUROPE

OPINION: Winning the cyber war with a united digital front

As initiatives to regulate artificial intelligence pop up across the world, the EU and the United States have a huge opportunity to act in concert and agree on common global standards.
Rasha Abdulla The American University in Cairo

OPINION: Will Elon Musk remove my Twitter shadow ban?

Musk’s promise of lifting censorship has a certain appeal, provided that it’s actually implemented, and that it comes with some basic guarantees of human rights.
Pete Howson Northumbria University

Are cryptocurrencies the new digital ‘blood diamonds’ of Africa?

Across the world’s troubled spots, resource wars and economic crises are being fuelled by a new kind of high-tech “blood diamond” - cryptocurrency.
Wafa Ben-Hassine Omidyar Network

OPINION: What critics get wrong about regulating Big Tech

The Digital Markets Act is ambitious in its aims, with objectives that take into account the interests of not a single stakeholder group, but the interests of many - at the forefront of which are users.

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ANALYSIS: Moscow battles big tech to control the narrative
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