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Digital citizens

We investigate how rapid advances in data-intensive technologies are affecting human rights around the world

  • A Lebanese woman with her face painted with a red hand

    ‘I blamed myself’: how stigma stops Arab women reporting online abuse

    Women in the Middle East and north Africa say social codes leave them unable to talk about social media abuse as pandemic pushes sexual harassment off the streets
  • William Frederick Keck III, rapper OG Illa, in Richmond, Virginia.

    ‘They track every move’: how US parole apps created digital prisoners

    Is smartphone tracking a less intrusive reward for good behaviour or just a way to enrich the incarceration industry?
  • Passengers at Xi’an railway station check in with ID cards and facial recognition. Surveillance technology in China can now supposedly detect one’s state of mind.

    Smile for the camera: the dark side of China's emotion-recognition tech

    Xi Jinping wants ‘positive energy’ but critics say the surveillance tools’ racial bias and monitoring for anger or sadness should be banned
  • National Bureau of Investigation and FBI gather evidence

    'It’s an arms race’: the tech teams trying to outpace paedophiles online

  • Man looking at mobile phoneA Wire

    Child abuse hotline reports rise in calls from men viewing illegal content

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