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Chinese citizens fight coronavirus censorship with emojis and ancient languages - 9 juin 2020
After an article about a Wuhan doctor was blocked, thousands of people have used a variety of innovative means to keep sharing it
Last week, an article published by China’s popular Ren Wu magazine was scrubbed from the country’s internet. In the piece, Ai Fen, director of Wuhan Central Hospital’s emergency (...)
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How TikTok opened a window into China’s police state - 7 juin 2020
Uyghurs are gaming TikTok’s algorithm to find a loophole in Xinjiangs’s information lockdown
Every evening after getting back from his studies, Alip Erkin sits at home in Sydney, Australia, and opens up the video-sharing app TikTok on his Android phone. He’s looking for something in particular : videos from Xinjiang (...)
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Follow-up : Data protection during the Covid-19 pandemic in Pakistan - 7 juin 2020
We don’t just follow stories, we follow up. Last month, Coda Story’s Ramsha Jahangir wrote about Pakistan’s use of Covid-19 tracking technology and its implications for the right to privacy.
Our story examined a host of potential privacy concerns related to the country’s newly launched Covid-19 tracking technology, (...)
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Face matching and digital avatars coming to the EU’s borders - 30 mai 2020
Across Europe, leaders have been desperately seeking new ways to secure borders. Concerns over migration have contributed to the evolution of new forms of authoritarian technology
On the outskirts of Vienna, staff at the Austrian Institute of Technology are working on a project that could radically change border (...)
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Russia’s Internet, already dim, gets darker - 27 mai 2020
Censorship and new laws block online information and stifle digital life
The Russian internet is becoming less free, more isolated from the rest of the world, and on a path resembling countries with strictly controlled online spaces like in Iran.
A recent report by a leading digital rights group in Russia paints (...)
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I tested the UK’s coronavirus app. Here’s what I found. - 19 mai 2020
The British government is testing a tracking and tracing app on a small island off the coast of England. Its success could determine how the coronavirus pandemic is contained elsewhere
When the British government announced last month that it would trial its new coronavirus app on the Isle of Wight, the small (...)
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Arrested for two tweets in Croatia - 18 mai 2020
The case of a journalist arrested for criticizing the government provides a grim example of a global trend which sees social media users increasingly criminalized
It is Gordan Duhaček’s job to write about corruption and government inaction. But when the journalist started to report on the looming environmental (...)
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India was already a surveillance state. Its Covid-19 app goes even further - 16 mai 2020
Concerns about the government’s new contact-tracing software stretch back more than a decade, to its controversial biometric data scheme
Critics warn that India’s new national contact tracing app, downloaded by over 100 million people, is just the latest move in the country’s drive to establish an increasingly (...)
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Tech company’s ties to white supremacism trigger debate on surveillance algorithms - 6 mai 2020
Revelations call for transparency in how artificial intelligence is used by law enforcement
The sudden suspension of a controversial multi-million dollar surveillance system used by several government agencies in Utah has opened up a debate about the lack of oversight for artificial intelligence systems in law (...)
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“I became a pariah.” Coronavirus victims’ data is leaked on social media in Pakistan - Coda Story - 3 mai 2020
Using cellphone tracking and mobile apps to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the government is surveilling millions of ordinary citizens
On February 26, hours before Pakistan’s health authorities confirmed the country’s first coronavirus case, the patient’s photograph and personal details, including his home (...)
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Coronavirus tests Germans’ devotion to privacy - Coda Story - 24 avril 2020
New initiatives to limit the spread of Covid-19 have sparked a debate over how far the government can go to control the pandemic
Last week, a hand-written poster appeared on a fence in my Berlin neighborhood. It bore the slogan : “Fight digital totalitarianism” and appeared to be signed “The Analogs.”
Just days (...)
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In Kenya, thousands face an uncertain future without ID cards - Coda Story - 17 avril 2020
A government program for citizens and refugees highlights the pitfalls of humanitarian biometrics
Amina Ali Adan was born in the Kenyan town of Garissa, 65 miles away from Dadaab, one of the world’s largest refugee camps, situated near the Somali border. She is just one of tens of thousands of Kenyan citizens who (...)
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How the UK government replaced disability services with surveillance tech - Coda Story - 13 avril 2020
From ‘telecare’ systems for people with disabilities to online-only social services, technology is having a profound impact on the lives of socially excluded people in the UK
When Ruth Cherry goes to bed at night, she’s watched by a camera system. Motion sensors track her every move. Microphones listen to her (...)
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Italy looks to tech to limit the spread of the coronavirus - Coda Story - 12 avril 2020
A national task force exploring how data from mobile phones could limit the spread of Covid-19 has sparked a debate over privacy and data protection
One month after the introduction of Italy’s national lockdown, the government’s bid to find data-driven solutions to limit the spread of the coronavirus has sparked a (...)
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Marseille’s fight against AI surveillance - Coda Story - 30 mars 2020
The southern French city, once synonymous with urban crime, now encapsulates the spread of AI surveillance driven by Chinese companies
In 2016, Netflix launched its first European production – a twisty political drama titled “Marseille.” Set in the historic port city, the series starred Gerard Depardieu and was (...)
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‘Lash curl’ TikTok video about China’s detention of Muslims goes viral - 27 novembre 2019
A TikTok video of a young Asian-American woman curling her lashes while discussing China’s ongoing persecution of its Muslim minority population has gone viral.
The user, Feroza Aziz, 17, who says she is an Afghan-American political activist from New Jersey, made three videos to try to raise awareness about (...)
