Iran Says Face Recognition Will ID Women Breaking Hijab Laws
[ad_1] Cathryn Grothe, a research analyst at Freedom House, a US government–backed nonprofit that works on human rights, says she has seen a shift in Iran in recent years away from a…
How Chinese Netizens Swamped China’s Internet Controls
[ad_1] The tragedy came as frustrations with zero-Covid policies were already starting to spike. Violent confrontations had broken out between workers and security at a Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou that manufactures…
Iran’s Protests Reveal What’s Lost If Twitter Crumbles
[ad_1] Twitter isn’t Iran’s biggest social network—WhatsApp, Instagram, and Telegram are more popular—but as in many other countries, it is used to share breaking news and real-time updates on events.…
San Francisco’s Killer Police Robots Threaten the City’s Most Vulnerable
[ad_1] One effect of AB 481 is to add local oversight to hardware like the kind obtained through a US Department of Defense program that sends billions of dollars of military…
Protest Is Risky at Egypt’s COP27. That Won’t Stop Activists
[ad_1] But an altercation that followed the event exemplified the resistance human rights activists face: According to a Washington Post report, Egyptian lawmaker Amr Darwish stood up and yelled at…
Iran’s Internet Blackouts Are Part of a Global Menace
[ad_1] For the past five weeks, thousands of Iranians, led by courageous young women, have taken to the streets of dozens of cities around the country, driven to action by…
Iran’s Internet Shutdown Hides a Deadly Crackdown
[ad_1] Iran started shutting the internet down on September 19 as protests around Amini’s death gained momentum. Since then, multiple internet-monitoring organizations, including Kentik, Netblocks, Cloudflare, and the Open Observatory…
Undocumented Workers Protest Uber Eats Crackdown
[ad_1] These deactivations have enraged French unions, which believe Uber Eats is deactivating accounts as growth stalls. “The decision took place without workers being notified,” says Fabian Tosolini, a delegate…
Protest Hides in Plain Sight in Hong Kong
[ad_1] On a particularly clear day, I ascended Lion’s Rock, an iconic peak in Kowloon which offers stunning vistas of Hong Kong to the intrepid hiker. In 2019, the grandiose…
Amazon Workers in the UK Walk Out in a Cost-of-Living Rebellion
[ad_1] Discontent started to ripple through Amazon’s largest UK warehouse as soon as details of a bump in hourly pay flashed onto screens around the facility on Wednesday. Rumors at…