surveillance

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surveillance
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The Modi government’s war on encryption continues?

Governments have cocked a snook at WhatsApp’s encryption policy for years. The UK had to back down. India is taking the opposite approach.

26 Oct 2023

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What a police survey tells us about the new surveillance state

A census of the North-East community in Delhi by the police seeks personal details in the name of security, sparking profiling and privacy concerns.

18 Aug 2023

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How India surveils its citizens

After years of small-scale and targeted surveillance, the government is gearing up to mine big data from its citizens. At the core of its plan are intelligence agencies that operate with zero non-executive oversight.

04 Sept 2021

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Can we avert a Zoom apocalypse?

Video conferencing provided a way out of the chaos sparked by the pandemic. Now it is threatening to take over life as we know it.

10 Nov 2020