Monday’s Must Read List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-

1. Israel escalates surveillance of Palestinians with facial recognition program in West Bank (The Independent)
2. When Finnish researchers took on the Twitter trolls (Nature)
3. North American companies rush to add robots as demand surges (Reuters)
4. DOJ flexes civil rights muscle in disabilities lawsuit against Uber (The Washington Post)
5. ‘Conditioning an entire society’: the rise of biometric data technology (The Guardian)
6. German engine technology found in Chinese warships — report (DW)
7. Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software (CNN)
8. Australia to set up $740 mln fund to develop low-emissions technology (Nasdaq)
9. Pros and Cons of 5G Technology (The Times of India)

Some light reading- The Hacked World Order, by Adam Segal