Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
- Israel escalates surveillance of Palestinians with facial recognition program in West Bank (The Independent)
- When Finnish researchers took on the Twitter trolls (Nature)
- North American companies rush to add robots as demand surges (Reuters)
- DOJ flexes civil rights muscle in disabilities lawsuit against Uber (The Washington Post)
- ‘Conditioning an entire society’: the rise of biometric data technology (The Guardian)
- German engine technology found in Chinese warships — report (DW)
- Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software (CNN)
- Australia to set up $740 mln fund to develop low-emissions technology (Nasdaq)
- Pros and Cons of 5G Technology (The Times of India)
Some light reading- The Hacked World Order, by Adam Segal
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