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China has just announced a new social credit law. Here’s what it says.
To this end, the latest draft legislation talks about the need to use “methods as diverse as statistical methods, modeling…
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China’s surveillance state proves that the idea of privacy is “more malleable” than you might expect
“They could have saved millions of lives using those technologies,” he said, “and as a result [the necessity of] state…
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Amazon has a new plan for the Astro home robot: protect your life
Last year’s pitch, however, was that Astro would make home life more comfortable and enjoyable — a kind of cute,…
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Dictatorship technology and tower-building drones
Despite President Biden’s assurances at Wednesday’s United Nations meeting that the United States is not seeking a new cold war,…
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The world is getting closer to a new cold war fought by authoritarian technology
In addition to the SCO, the Venezuelan autocracy announced in 2017 a smart identification card for its citizens to aggregate…
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Huge data centers are flooding into cities
You’ve probably never heard of Hikvision, but chances are you’ve been caught by one of its millions of cameras. The…
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The next tool against COVID-19
Passive monitoring systems such as fully automated smart toilets that enable the detection of SARS-CoV-2 ribonucleic acid (RNA) in feces…
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South Africa’s private surveillance machines are fueling a digital apartheid regime
“Vumacam’s technology is honed for the purpose of crime prevention and is therefore not capable of mass surveillance nor is…
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Study shows that Sotrovimab causes COVID-19 treatment-resistant mutations
A University of Sydney-led research firm in infectious diseases has reported genetic mutations in the virus that causes COVID-19, which…
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