Society has been transformed by a technology revolution and its 24/7 influence on so many aspects of our reality. The…
Focus Tag: Surveillance
DARPA Releases BAA for Disinformation Campaign Prevention Effort | Executive Gov
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a broad agency announcement to identify potential sources of technologies and…
Threats, Lies and Videotape: Prigozhin’s Long-Running War on Free Media | bellingcat
On 21 May 2019, a team of three CNN journalists and a supporting crew of five landed in Bangui, the…
Opinion | It’s official: In Egypt, you can now get 15 years in jail for a tweet | The Washington Post
In the six years since Abdel Fatah al-Sissi assumed the presidency in Egypt, the country has devolved into the deepest human…
Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past | AlterNet
‘Phrenology’ has an old-fashioned ring to it. It sounds like it belongs in a history book, filed somewhere between bloodletting…
We Chat, They Watch: How International Users Unwittingly Build up WeChat’s Chinese Censorship Apparatus | The Citizen Lab
A significant body of research over the past decade has shown how online platforms in China are routinely censored to…
Risks with coronavirus tracing apps go beyond privacy | Los Angeles Times
Last week, the world got a preview of how Google and Apple’s contact tracing project might look and function. Some…
The tech ‘solutions’ for coronavirus take the surveillance state to the next level | The Guardian
In a matter of weeks, coronavirus has shuttered the global economy and placed capitalism in intensive care. Many thinkers have…
Conservative News Sites Track You Lots More Than Left-Leaning Ones | WIRED
In an age of hyper-partisanship, Americans increasingly get their news from sites that align with their political beliefs. But more…
As Virus Spreads, Anger Floods Chinese Social Media | The New York Times
SHANGHAI — Recently, someone following the coronavirus crisis through China’s official news media would see lots of footage, often set…