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Fracking company and Lancashire police collaborate to surveil protesters

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US DHS expands surveillance to counter domestic terrorism

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LA police trials market research software to search social media

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Myanmar military conducts mobile phone stops and searches

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South Africa threatens protesters with 2020 cyber protection legislation

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South African government asks social media to trace and remove dissent

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Personalised online ads enables invisible - and illegal - discrimination

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Facebook research targeted insecure youth

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Peru social networks crucial in disseminating rights information

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Facial recognition increases risk for Hong Kong street protesters

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Hong Kong protesters and police engage in digital arms race

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Peru street protests coordinated on social media by hundreds of decentralized organisations

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Tunisian police target LGBTQ protesters

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Police and administration surveil University of Sydney protesters

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Dataminr uses Twitter firehose access to inform law enforcement about protesters

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Peruvian police crackdown on political protests

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US police expand surveillance in response to Black Lives Matter protests

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Researchers scrape social media for masked faces to train AI models

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UK/US: AI company claims social media analysis predicts virus spikes

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Experts object to US Immigration & Customs Enforcement’s “Extreme Vetting Initiative” that will rely on AI

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US Immigration & Customs Enforcement used social media to monitor protests opposing Trump administration policies

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US government used social media to monitor journalists and advocates working with migrants

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Private intelligence company monitored people protesting Trump’s family separation policies

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Bahrain threatens crackdown on followers of anti-government social media accounts

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Tender revealing Israeli National Insurance Institute was trying to access social media dropped

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Woman jailed after posting pictures of herself in Ibiza

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Woman gets her benefits withdrawn for looking too happy on Facebook

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Facebook analyses location data to show public behaviour change

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Russian centre uses AI and cameras to curb misinformation and monitor quarantines

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Chinese government social media programme seeks to distract the public