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A recent protest in Hong Kong. Credit: Studio Incendo via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-2.0.

Hong Kongers rage against smart lampposts, Chinese surveillance

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photo by Ulfbastel via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Digital authoritarianism and the threat to global democracy

By Justin Sherman | Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations agents. Credit: @ICEGov via Twitter.

Uproar over Palantir’s sale of tracking software to US immigration agency

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Facial recognition and the future of privacy: I always feel like … somebody’s watching me

By Brenda Leong | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies