China Has a New Plan to Tame Tibet
Before Xinjiang, there was Tibet. Repressive policies tested there between 2012 and 2016 were then applied to the Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in northwestern...
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The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything. But It Didn’t Protect a Source.
Where were you when you first heard about the Snowden leak? The huge breach of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program in June 2013...
Court Approves Warrantless Surveillance Rules While Scolding F.B.I.
ImageThe court rulings involved surveillance programs that grew out of once-secret initiatives begun under President George W. Bush, seen here at the White House in...
With Hacks and Cameras, Beijing’s Electronic Dragnet Closes on Hong Kong
To get onto his Facebook account, the police used Tony Chung’s body. When officers swarmed him at a Hong Kong shopping mall last month, they...
Military Surveillance Planes Didn’t Spy on Protesters, Pentagon Report Finds
WASHINGTON — Deploying a little-known National Guard reconnaissance plane in four American cities to monitor protests this spring did not violate rules against the military...
Ex-F.B.I. Lawyer Expected to Plead Guilty in Durham Investigation
WASHINGTON — A former F.B.I. lawyer intends to plead guilty to falsifying a document as part of a deal with prosecutors conducting their own criminal...
Is TikTok More of a Parenting Problem Than a Security Threat?
TikTok has long presented a parenting problem, as millions of Americans raising preteens and teenagers distracted by its viral videos can attest. But when the...
Don’t Ban TikTok. Make an Example of It.
For a while, it seemed that TikTok might dodge the techlash. After all, what could be problematic about a short-form video app featuring a bunch...
China Is Harvesting the DNA of Its People. Is This the Future of Policing?
For several years now, the police and other authorities in China have been collecting across the country DNA samples from millions of men and boys...
Popular Chinese-Made Drone Is Found to Have Security Weakness
Cybersecurity researchers revealed on Thursday a newfound vulnerability in an app that controls the world’s most popular consumer drones, threatening to intensify the growing tensions...