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. Facebook Messenger: The battle over end-to-end encryption (BBC News)
2. Google asks a judge to dismiss Texas antitrust lawsuit about its ad business (TechCrunch)
3. Israel’s Attorney General Sets Up Team to Look Into Police Use of NSO Spyware (Haaretz Newspaper)
4. Google is building an AR headset (The Verge)
5. A global clash over technology dominance is mounting (TechCrunch)
6. Gone digital: Technology diffusion in the digital era (Brookings)
7. China Vows ‘No Mercy’ in Battle Against Corruption, Big Tech (Bloomberg)
8. The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2022 (The New York Times)
9. UK Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership with Australia (UK Gov)
10. COVID-19: New ‘game-changing’ X-ray technology developed which can detect coronavirus in minutes (Sky News)

Some light reading- Regarding the Pain of Others, by Susan Sontag