Strict visa rules are still keeping game devs out of the USTwo Pakistani GDC scholarship winners turned their visa rejections into a game.By J. Conditt, 02.06.2020
Chinese officials reportedly installed a surveillance app on tourists' phonesThe app may extract emails, texts and contacts, as well as info about the device.By C. Fisher, 07.02.2019
Chinese surveillance company found tracking 2.5 million peopleA security hole revealed just how closely China monitors Uighur residents.By J. Fingas, 02.17.2019
China implements tech that can detect people by the way they walkLimping doesn’t fool the software.By I. Khan, 11.07.2018
Zuckerberg apologizes for Facebook's response to Myanmar conflictThe Facebook CEO sent activists a personal email apologizing for 'misspeaking'. By R. England, 04.10.2018
Russia-linked Facebook ads sought to exploit US social divisionsThey support claims this was an official Russian influence campaign.By J. Fingas, 09.25.2017
Elon Musk accidentally tweets that Trump's ban is 'not right'Leaked draft tweets show a more direct opposition to the Executive Order limiting immigration.By R. Lawler, 02.15.2017
A ban on immigration is an attack on Silicon ValleyTech execs pin success on "America's free and open culture."By N. Lee, 02.03.2017
Apple, Microsoft and Uber help staff stranded by Trump ban (update: Airbnb)The immigration order has serious consequences for the tech industry.By J. Fingas, 01.28.2017
Tech workers unite against a potential US Muslim registry'We refuse to build a database of people based on their Constitutionally protected religious beliefs.'By J. Conditt, 12.13.2016
Shooting the Arabs: How video games perpetuate Muslim stereotypes"Muslim blood is the cheapest in the world."By N. Lee, 03.24.2016