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TECH AND POWER

The Tech and Power System 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.

30.09.2026

Data Centre Silence

How EU leaders sided with Big Tech over the public’s right to know about the true scale and environmental impact of the AI build-out, forcing a legal challenge to seek disclosure
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18.06.2026

Asylum by Algorithm

The UK has turned to AI to determine the age of asylum seekers, and other countries are likely to follow suit. Our investigation finds the technology is deeply unreliable.
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04.05.2026

Hiding Behind AI

How Kenya Used a Predictive Algorithm to Transfer Health Costs onto the Poorest
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14.10.2025

Surveillance Secrets

Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread
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How Google, Amazon, Meta and thousands of other companies leave customers vulnerable on one time codes to save time and money
16.06.2025

Two Factor Insecurity

How Google, Amazon, Meta and thousands of other companies leave customers vulnerable over one-time codes to save time and money
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Building blocks are overlayed with digital squares that highlight people living their day-to-day lives through windows. Some of the squares are accompanied by cursors.
11.06.2025

The Limits of Ethical AI

Unprecedented access to high-stakes algorithmic experiment tests promise of Ethical AI
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14.01.2025

Computer says no fly

Opaque surveillance tools being sold to governments with the promise they can ‘export borders’ to everywhere we board trains, planes and ships
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27.11.2024

Sweden’s Suspicion Machine

Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented
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05.06.2024

False Promise of Biometrics

Three-country investigation shows digital IDs in Africa failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost, while making fortunes for tech vendors
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27.02.2024

Automating Distrust

Digital profiling of Dutch low income, minority neighbourhoods spirals, series of local investigations reveals
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04.12.2023

France’s Digital Inquisition

Taking apart the secretive fraud detection algorithm that scores half of France’s population but pursues the most vulnerable.
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24.04.2023

Ethnic Profiling

Whistleblower reveals Netherlands’ use of secret and potentially illegal algorithm to score visa applicants
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17.04.2023

Spain’s AI Doctor

Unpublished documents and inside sources give rare look into secretive AI system used to decide who is shirking work
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06.03.2023

Suspicion Machines

Unprecedented experiment on welfare surveillance algorithm reveals discrimination
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30.11.2022

Flight of the Predator

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