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fromPrivacy International
1 day ago

Dual-use tech: the Thales example

Thales S.A. is a French defence and security company specialising in electrical components. Its products range from radar systems, aircraft electronics, drones, missiles and satellites, to sensors, ID cards, e-Gates, biometric databases and cryptographic tools. The company emerged in the 1890s as a French subsidiary of the forerunner of US conglomerate General Electric.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

The global south is being surveilled into compliance and Silicon Valley calls it development - Silicon Canals

Technology companies extract valuable personal data from Global South populations through development-framed digital infrastructure projects, concentrating data ownership and control in private corporations while host countries receive limited access.
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

The global infrastructure of digital ID is being built right now - and nobody voted for it - Silicon Canals

What I walked through wasn't just an immigration gate. It was a node in a rapidly expanding global infrastructure of digital identity, one being constructed at extraordinary speed, across dozens of countries, by a mix of governments, multilateral organizations, and private technology vendors. The people building it believe they are solving real problems: fraud, statelessness, inefficient public services, financial exclusion.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

From Nairobi to Shenzhen to Sao Paulo: the global surveillance stack is being built fastest in the places with the least power to resist it, and almost nobody in Silicon Valley is talking about it - Silicon Canals

Surveillance infrastructure deployment is accelerating in developing nations through fragmented procurement processes, with Chinese vendors gaining market share by avoiding regulatory scrutiny that Western competitors impose.
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fromTravel + Leisure
7 months ago

Passport Stamps Are Disappearing Across 29 Countries This Fall-Here's What Travelers Need to Know

Countries in the European Union will soon replace passport stamps with biometric and electronic border systems, starting from October 12.
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