The Surveillance Newsroom tackles present tense investigations into the rise of surveillance technology. It tackles the complexity of emerging technologies, their adoption by state and supranational actors and questions the push to render people as data. Much reporting casts this technology in a dystopic near future, this newsroom illuminates this datafication and its implications for human rights now.
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Ghost in the network
How a Swiss tech expert runs a global phone surveillance system


Ethnic Profiling
Whistleblower reveals Netherlands’ use of secret and potentially illegal algorithm to score visa applicants


Spain’s AI Doctor
Unpublished documents and inside sources give rare look into secretive AI system used to decide who is shirking work


Suspicion Machines
Unprecedented experiment on welfare surveillance algorithm reveals discrimination


The Algorithm Addiction
Mass profiling system SyRI resurfaces in the Netherlands despite ban


Flight of the Predator
Private jet reveals business spyware web of Israeli tycoon from EU to Africa


Revealing Europe’s NSO
Uncovering major surveillance outfit operating from inside the EU


Junk Science Underpins Fraud Scores
Crude software scoring vulnerable benefit claimants is random and prejudiced


Europe Threatens Popular Encryption
Documents show governments seeking to hack services like Whatsapp and Signal


Biometrics in Africa’s Elections
French multinational made 10s millions despite repeat failures


Europol to be Europe’s NSA?
Investigation uncovers years of unlawful retention of personal data


Inside a Fraud Prediction Algorithm
Obtaining the source code Rotterdam uses to predict benefits cheating


EU Spy Tech in Myanmar
EU funds and techn secretly aid junta in spying on Burmese


What is Palantir Doing in Europe?
Tracing US tech giant roots in EU security, public health, aviation and data
