Twitter Helped Chinese Government Promote Disinformation on Repression of Uyghurs
Promoted tweets from a state-run news outlet distort the position of Uyghurs in the western province of Xinjiang.
Technology
Google Is Deepening Its Involvement With Egypt's Repressive Government
Google is set to re-staff its Cairo office, which more or less went dormant in 2014, following the military coup that brought Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to power.
Trauma Counselors Were Pressured to Divulge Confidential Information About Facebook Moderators, Internal Letter Claims
Thousands of Facebook workers have viewed the letter on an internal message board.
A New App Allows Readers in China to Bypass Censorship of The Intercept
In partnership with Psiphon, we are launching a custom app for Android and Windows devices that circumvents China’s censorship of The Intercept.
The Trump Administration Is Using the Full Power of the U.S. Surveillance State Against Whistleblowers
An examination of court filings in all seven leak cases filed under Trump yields a detailed picture of how the government tries to unmask confidential sources.
We Tested Europe's New Lie Detector for Travelers — and Immediately Triggered a False Positive
4.5 million euros have been pumped into the virtual policeman project meant to judge the honesty of travelers. An expert calls the technology “not credible.”
Google Continues Investments in Military and Police AI Technology Through Venture Capital Arm
Google promises interested firms access to its own AI training data and sometimes places Google engineers within the companies as a resource.
Voices
Why an "AI Race" Between the U.S. and China Is a Terrible, Terrible Idea
We don’t need to win this nationalistic race — especially when we don’t even know what’s at the finish line.
Before Being Hacked, Border Surveillance Firm Lobbied to Downplay Security and Privacy Concerns About Its Technology
The CEO of Perceptics, which makes license plate readers, claimed that “CBP has none of the privacy concerns at the border that all agencies have inland.”
Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and Google
Iran and Syria are the only countries in the region where Semptian would refuse to sell its surveillance tools, an employee said.