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…it protects our property

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...it helps to protect our nationality

migrants
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...it protects those fleeing from persecution

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…it protects our ability to move freely

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The UN’s Legal Identity Task Force: Opportunities and Risks

Kenya High Court
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Kenyan Court Ruling on Huduma Namba Identity System: the Good, the Bad and the Lessons

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…it helps us defend ourselves

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Pregnancy persists on the internet despite miscarriage in real life

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Bricks-and-mortar retailers adapt online tracking techniques for the physical world

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Big data intelligence company builds advertising audiences from mobile tracking at Iowa caucuses

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Royal Parks covertly tracks visitors via mobile phone data

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Research shows that users can be uniquely identified from just four apps

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New police technologies assign individual "threat scores"

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Affective computing provides new frontier in user manipulation

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Banks turn to smartphone metadata to assess lending risk

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Anti-Choice Groups Use Smartphone Surveillance to Target ‘Abortion-Minded Women’ During Clinic Visits

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MIT device uses wireless signals to identify emotions

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Baidu aggregates map search data to predict crowd formation

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Fighting data-exploitative business models

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Fighting disproportionate identity systems and policies

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Austria proposes to seize asylum seekers' devices to check their identities and travel routes

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Before Cambridge Analytica 'research' was 'gay' face and 'personality' studies

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Mined behavioural computing data shows early signs of Parkinson's Disease

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EU pilots AI border agents to mine microexpressions

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Researchers attempt to predict depression from Facebook posts

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Consumer behaviour closely predicts politices, race, income, education, gender

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Choice of iOS or Android can predict credit-worthiness

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Facebook study of "emotional contagion" turns users into subjects

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Facebook's Sponsored Stories feature personal content

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Third parties compile profiles based on Facebook data