Richard Fontaine and Kara Fredericks, March 15th, 2019, Center for a New American Security https://www.cnas.org/publications/commentary/the-autocrats-new-tool-kit Chinese authorities are now using the tools of big data to detect departures from “normal” behavior among Muslims in the country’s Xinjiang region—and then to identify each supposed deviant for further state attention. The Egyptian government plans to relocate from […]Read More

Mark Mazzetti, Adam Goldman, Ronen Bergman and Nicole Perlroth, March 21st, 2019, New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/politics/government-hackers-nso-darkmatter.html Sophisticated surveillance, once the domain of world powers, is increasingly available on the private market. Smaller countries are seizing on the tools — sometimes for darker purposes. The man in charge of Saudi Arabia’s ruthless campaign to stifle dissent […]Read More