The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/... Anthony Guglielmi / @ajguglielmi : While investigating threats against senior officials, the @SecretService uncovered & dismantled a telecom network capable of disr...
The US is fretting over signing a UN cybercrime treaty due to fears Russia, China, and others could use it to justify surveillance and suppression of rights
The Biden administration has weeks left to decide how to vote on a controversial U.N. cybercrime treaty, which critics …
An OHCHR investigation finds 120K+ people in Myanmar and ~100K people in Cambodia “may be held in situations where they are forced to carry out online scams”
The U.N. human rights office says criminal gangs have forced hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia …
IFR data: Chinese factories installed 243K+ robots in 2021, up 45% YoY and around 50% of the global total, adapting to a changing workforce and rising wages
Jason Douglas / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jchengwsj , @andymok , and @kanthan2030 Tweets: Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : China installed almost as many robots in its factories last year as the re...
As Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Amazon, and others play larger roles in OpenStreetMap, hobbyists fear private sector will overshadow their work
What do Lyft, Facebook, the International Red Cross, the U.N., the government of Nepal and Pokémon Go have in common? Tweets: @citylab , @johnjcz , @wongmjane , @mslaurabliss , @tmcw , @tmcw , @kmanau...
UN backs down on Tencent partnership for 75th anniversary after complaints from US officials and human rights groups that the company aids Chinese surveillance
The decision comes after U.S. officials and human rights advocates complained that Tencent aids Beijing in surveillance. Tweets: @lokmantsui and @sophiehrw Tweets: Lokman Tsui / @lokmantsui : update: ...
How White House veterans helped the UAE build a surveillance unit in 9/11's wake that would go on to target activists and journalists as well as terrorists
Reuters : Tweets: @reuters , @kimzetter , @campuscodi , @fpwellman , @attackerman , @sherifmnsour , @bing_chris , @stephennellis , @bing_chris , @dr_ulrichsen , @dnvolz , @reuters , @josephfcox , @ev...
Profile of Denmark's Casper Klynge, the world's first foreign ambassador to the tech industry, as the country grapples with tech giants' power
Adam Satariano / New York Times : Tweets: @ibogost , @orskov , @iradhikagupta , @jeremyakahn , @ukpriyaguha , @prepaid_africa , @ramanewdelhi , @psb_dc , @aelfred_d , @niallotuathail , @deptechambnjw...
U.N. human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Myanmar say that Facebook has played a role in spreading hate speech in the country
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Myanmar said on Monday that Facebook had played a role in spreading hate speech there.
U.N. report: Encryption is important to human rights — and backdoors undermine it
This is not what encryption looks like. (REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Files) — A new report from the United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights says digital security and privacy …