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Asia & Pacific 4 years ago

Apple warns Thai activists "state-sponsored attackers" may have targeted iPhones

Apple and Thailand's Digital Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Science & Tech 4 years ago

Singapore patrol robots stoke fears of surveillance state

From vast numbers of CCTV cameras to trials of lampposts kitted out with facial recognition tech, Singapore is seeing an explosion of tools to track its inhabitants.

SE Asia 4 years ago

Singapore to double police cameras to more than 200,000 over next decade

With a land area of little over 700 square kilometres (270 square miles), Singapore has strict laws and its surveillance tools include more than 90,000 police cameras already installed across the city.

Opinion 4 years ago

The pandemic, Papua, and a path forward

The national malaria program in Jakarta needs to ensure that adequate political, financial and technical resources are made available to Papua to undertake robust control and elimination activities.

National 5 years ago

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New 'virtual police' adds to fears over loss of online civic space, civil freedoms

The establishment of the National Police's cyber patrol unit has raised fears that the state is invading online civic space, adding fuel to the ongoing debate over the far-reaching ITE Law and potential curtailing of civil freedoms.

SE Asia 5 years ago

Philippine critics in firing line of anti-communist misinformation war

A torrent of misinformation on the social media platform has put activists, journalists, politicians and lawyers in the firing line as President Rodrigo Duterte's government and military out alleged supporters of a decades-old Maoist insurgency.

SE Asia 5 years ago

Singapore limits contact-tracing data access after outcry

The city-state last year rolled out a programme called "TraceTogether" for tracking close contacts of Covid-19 patients that works via both a phone app and dongle, but uptake was initially slow.

World 5 years ago

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Indonesia supports global push to combat illegal fishing

The global fisheries sector has become one of many to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to ongoing illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing.

World 5 years ago

US labor board challenges Google moves against activist employees

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) complaint filed late Wednesday stemmed from the dismissal a year ago of a quartet of employees dubbed the "Thanksgiving Four."

Science & Tech 5 years ago

Tech experts voice concerns of gig worker surveillance in pandemic

Growing armies of gig workers have little to no say in how they are being monitored during the coronavirus pandemic, calling for better oversight in how tracking tools are deployed.

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