Longreads 19 January 2021 Where surveillance cameras work but the justice system doesn’t Mexico City has one of the most ambitious and sophisticated video surveillance systems in the world. But it hasn’t stopped crime.
Longreads 12 January 2021 The silent song How Papuan separatists battle the Indonesian government's bandwidth throttling and internet shutdowns to report on human rights abuses
Longread 5 January 2021 Papua New Guinea calling For over a decade, renegade telecom Digicel has made it their business to connect some of the world’s most remote regions. Now their strategy has left them reliant on maintaining the status quo.
Longreads 22 December 2020 Inside India’s booming dark data economy Thanks to lax privacy laws and high consumer demand, details on everything from how you shop to who you date are all for sale.
Longreads 24 November 2020 The hills are alive Pakistan’s government uses the internet as a means of exerting control — and in a remote part of the country, citizens are starting to fight back.
Longreads 17 November 2020 The cost of convenience South Korea’s Coupang promised to make e-commerce lightning fast. A Covid-19 outbreak at one of its warehouses shows that its workers paid the price.
Longreads 19 October 2020 Travel influencers, meet authoritarian regimes The influencer industry has grown to be cozy with some unsavory governments, but its clout might not be as effective as it once was.
Longreads 6 October 2020 Returning the gaze Uighurs in exile are fighting back against China’s techno-authoritarianism to locate their relatives who have been disappeared.
Longreads 15 September 2020 Opening dossiers — and old wounds As troves of KGB documents become declassified, former Soviet nations are grappling with their not-so-distant pasts.
Longreads 1 September 2020 Gram by gram Silk Road is dead. Meet the next generation of digital black markets for illegal drugs: fully decentralized, pay-by-crypto, and end-to-end encrypted bazaars.
