thecorrespondent.com > Lennart Hofman
Drones have changed warfare. This is what life is like as a constant human target
18 nov. 2020 - The use of drones fundamentally changes the nature of war. The pilots are invisible and untouchable, with a terrible price being paid by ordinary citizens. Turkey’s military operation in northern Iraq reveals that all too clearly.
 · drones · iraq · kurdistan · turkey · war

thecorrespondent.com > Nesrine Malik
Trump’s legacy will extend far beyond his presidency even if he loses
22 oct. 2020 - A Biden win is not the end.
 · us-2020-elections

thecorrespondent.com > OluTimehin Adegbeye
End SARS
16 oct. 2020 - But that’s not all.
 · activism · bitcoin · gay-rights · nigeria · police-violence

thecorrespondent.com > Nesrine Malik
Why has Africa been spared?
15 oct. 2020 - The continent did some things differently, but does that explain why it avoided the worst of the pandemic?
 · africa · covid-19

thecorrespondent.com > Dimitri Tokmetzis
So, what have we gained from all these contact-tracing apps?
13 oct. 2020 - Now that we are seeing measures against Covid-19 ramping up in many countries, we need to be asking ourselves: what have we gained from contact-tracing apps?
 · apple · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · google

thecorrespondent.com > Morgan Meaker
Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and center – and they’re coming up short
1 oct. 2020 - Many European countries have introduced apps to keep tabs on citizens’ health during Covid-19 through tracking. But this sudden need to collect information – brought about by the pandemic – means that local data protection regulators aren’t prepared for the influx of data. To ensure our information is used accurately and for good reason, data protections need to be centralized and well-funded.
 · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · data-protection · eu · gdpr · surveillance

thecorrespondent.com > Nesrine Malik
Why the world can get worse by constantly saying it’s getting better
30 sep. 2020 - Progress is a measure of things being different, not necessarily better. And talking about it as an achievement can actually make it more difficult to spur real forward movement. If we want to understand our society’s progress, we need to change the way we speak about it.
 · black-struggle · islamophobia · optimism · progress · toxic-positivity

thecorrespondent.com > Yanis Varoufakis
How progressives could still win the 21st century
30 sep. 2020 - It’s time for progressives to come together under a shared vision and a common plan – this time following an uncommon strategy. Here’s how.
 · authoritarianism · climate-change · drm · futurism · green-new-deal · neoliberalism · postcapitalism · progressives

thecorrespondent.com > Morgan Meaker
Why Dont' More People Say F**k The Algorithm?
21 sep. 2020 - Protest movements around the world have become inherently digital, but why are there so few protests responding to governments’ online actions? And find out how volunteers are tracking down tourists breaking quarantine in Hawaii. 
 · covid-19 · covid-19-apps

thecorrespondent.com > Felix Light, Francesca Musiani, Jenny Lee and Morgan Meaker
Why is Covid-19 surveillance tech welcomed in some countries but rejected in others?
17 sep. 2020 - Moscow’s high-tech battle against the pandemic turned into a public health disaster, but there was no protest. In France, there was widespread resistance to coronavirus tracking tech, but South Koreans gave up some privacy to prevent widespread lockdown. Why do some countries reject corona surveillance tech more than others?
 · collectivism · corruption · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · drones · facial-recognition · france · gay-rights · mers · privacy · resistance · russia · smart-cities · south-korea · surveillance

thecorrespondent.com > Nesrine Malik
Accentuate the negative
16 sep. 2020 - Being positive all the time can be toxic and get in the way of change.
 · toxic-positivity

thecorrespondent.com > Morgan Meaker
Native Americans have been hit hard by coronavirus. Is that data’s fault?
14 sep. 2020 - The Correspondent’s Track(ed) Together project has focused mostly on how people react to intense government efforts to track and collect data about them. But how do communities feel when the authorities aren’t interested?
 · black-struggle · brazil · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · equador · native-americans · singapore · united-states

thecorrespondent.com > OluTimehin Adegbeye
Caster Semenya deserves better
11 sep. 2020 - There is no fixed way to be human: the faster we learn how to make space for who people are, the better off we’ll be.
 · gender · sports

thecorrespondent.com > Nesrine Malik
Our world is built for profit. Let’s build one that protects us instead
10 sep. 2020 - During lockdown, I slowly started to fall apart. But no one was prepared for the pandemic in a world where human needs are commercialised and family and community connections are cut.
 · capitalism · communalism · covid-19 · feminism · gig-economy · healthcare · inequality · leisure

thecorrespondent.com > Morgan Meaker
Back to school: tracking the coronavirus in the classroom 
7 sep. 2020 - As students around the world flood back to schools and universities, this week’s Tracked Together newsletter explores the Covid-19 surveillance trends in class and on campus in the US.
 · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · educational-surveillance · united-states

thecorrespondent.com > Annie Philip, Jacqueline Fowks, Layli Foroudi and Morgan Meaker
The pandemic will end. But in India, Tunisia and Peru, there are signs the surveillance will not
3 sep. 2020 - In India, judges make downloading a coronavirus app mandatory for suspects released on bail, Tunisia has a long history of government surveillance and in Peru, a survey system slurps personal data. In all three countries, writers fear Covid-19 surveillance could outlive the virus.
 · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · data-protection · identification · india · peru · surveillance · telecoms · tunesia

thecorrespondent.com > Morgan Meaker
Shame and surveillance on social media
31 aug. 2020 - Welcome back to The Correspondent’s weekly update on the politics and predicaments behind the coronavirus tech deployed around the world.
 · black-struggle · covid-19 · shaming · trust

thecorrespondent.com > Sanne Blauw
Race is a construct. So why is race science still around?
19 aug. 2020 - Race is a social construct, not a biological reality. Nonetheless, ancient theories of race have been resurfacing in recent years. Why is it happening? And why is it so dangerous? I asked science journalist Angela Saini, who wrote a book on the topic.
 · black-struggle · eugenics · identity · race-science

thecorrespondent.com > Riffy Bol
How to win in Formula One: is it the driver or the car?
18 aug. 2020 - Formula One, also known as F1 or the royal class of motor racing, has been around for 70 years. Before you watch another Grand Prix, let’s answer an old riddle: is it the driver or the machine that wins the race?
 · formula-one

thecorrespondent.com > Morgan Meaker
Coronavirus apps reflect European disunity
17 aug. 2020 - Welcome to your weekly update on Covid-19 technology and the digital politics steering each country’s pandemic response.
 · catalonia · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · drones · scotland · singapore

thecorrespondent.com > Laís Martins, Morgan Meaker, Oarabile Mudongo and Yohtaro Hamada
From Japan to Brazil and South Africa: how countries’ ‘data cultures’ shape their response to coronavirus
12 aug. 2020 - As part of The Correspondent’s Track(ed) Together project, writers from around the world tell us how their countries’ ‘data culture’ affects the local response to surveillance initiatives designed to curb the spread of Covid-19.
 · brasil · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · inequality · japan · privacy · second-world-war · south-africa · surveillance

thecorrespondent.com > OluTimehin Adegbeye
Ignorance is power too: why JK Rowling deliberately repeats untruths about trans people 
7 aug. 2020 - I fell in love with the world of Harry Potter as a kid, but when it comes to gender, JK Rowling’s imagination is limited. What’s truly magical is understanding that we don’t have to know everything about someone’s reality to respect them.
 · gender · power · queerness · transphobia

thecorrespondent.com > Morgan Meaker
The original Big Tech is working closer than ever with governments to combat coronavirus – with no scrutiny
5 aug. 2020 - Telecom companies are at the core of the world’s communication universe. Since the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve been passing even more sensitive data to governments. It’s time they were held as accountable as Google and Facebook.
 · contact-tracing · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · data-retention · internet-shutdowns · israel · location · shin-bet · snowden-disclosures · surveillance · telecoms · transparency · whistleblowing

thecorrespondent.com > Tanmoy Goswami
Millions are forced to live without touch. But technology now has a solution
4 aug. 2020 - Amputees don’t just lose parts of their anatomy – they lose access to the sensation of touch, which contains a wealth of neurobiological and emotional raw material. A brand-new technology is helping recover it.
 · human-machine-interfaces · prosthetics

thecorrespondent.com > Morgan Meaker
The eerie similarities between protest and pandemic tracking
3 aug. 2020 - Morgan here, again. In this edition of the Track(ed) Together newsletter, I’m thinking about the US city of Portland, where the surveillance tech deployed against anti-racism protesters has some sinister similarities with the tools used to curb the coronavirus. Read on to find out why and learn about one man’s proposal to ring-fence some of the most personal areas of our lives from artificial intelligence.
 · covid-19 · drones · facial-recognition · freedom-of-protest · surveillance

thecorrespondent.com > Rob Wijnberg
What I learned about racism by listening to people who experience it
30 jul. 2020 - “I don’t see colour.” Seven years ago, I said something a lot like that in reference to racism, convinced that it was the right thing to say. Now, seven years later, I’m ashamed to read my words again. And when I hear someone else say it, I’m filled with shame on their behalf.
 · black-struggle

thecorrespondent.com > Morgan Meaker
‘Privacy-friendly’ contact tracing: one rule for governments, another for Google
27 jul. 2020 - Welcome to edition eight of the Tracked Together newsletter, your weekly update on the tech being introduced in response to the coronavirus. 
 · apple · covid-19-apps · google · location · technology-theatre

thecorrespondent.com > Morgan Meaker
African countries’ growing app-etite for coronavirus apps gets mixed results
20 jul. 2020 - Hi. Morgan here. In these weekly updates, I’ve examined how surveillance tech has been used to respond to the coronavirus worldwide; from the use of drones in North Africa to health code apps in Asia. But one region this newsletter is yet to discuss is sub-Saharan Africa. The virus rate there has lagged behind other regions, and so has the tech. But as countries like Botswana and Nigeria are demonstrating, that is changing.
 · botswana · covid-19-apps · data-protection · nigeria

thecorrespondent.com > Viola Stefanello
You don’t like skydiving, and I don’t like sex: why we need to talk about asexuality  
15 jul. 2020 - The default mode in our hypersexualised culture is that love leads to the bedroom – but a narrow obsession with romantic sex is bad for everyone.
 · asexuality