Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
- Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos (The New York Times)
- The tyranny of passwords – is it time for a rethink? (The Guardian)
- US sets out new powers to block Chinese technology (The Financial Times)
- The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2021 (The New York Times)
- Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm (Reuters)
- Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism (The New York Times)
- Tackling Digital Deserts: Launch of First Cross-Sector Alliance to Close the Digital Divide (World Economic Forum)
- Now Available: New Drone Technology for Radiological Monitoring in Emergency Situations (IAEA)
- Why a dawn of technological optimism is breaking (The Economist)
- How The New Boundaries Of Technology Have Driven Paradigm Changes (Forbes)
Some light reading- The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius