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fromSilicon Canals
10 hours ago

The global south is being surveilled into compliance and Silicon Valley calls it development - Silicon Canals

Technology companies extract valuable personal data from Global South populations through development-framed digital infrastructure projects, concentrating data ownership and control in private corporations while host countries receive limited access.
fromSilicon Canals
14 hours ago

The global infrastructure of digital ID is being built right now - and nobody voted for it - Silicon Canals

What I walked through wasn't just an immigration gate. It was a node in a rapidly expanding global infrastructure of digital identity, one being constructed at extraordinary speed, across dozens of countries, by a mix of governments, multilateral organizations, and private technology vendors. The people building it believe they are solving real problems: fraud, statelessness, inefficient public services, financial exclusion.
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World politics
fromSilicon Canals
1 day ago

From Nairobi to Shenzhen to Sao Paulo: the global surveillance stack is being built fastest in the places with the least power to resist it, and almost nobody in Silicon Valley is talking about it - Silicon Canals

Surveillance infrastructure deployment is accelerating in developing nations through fragmented procurement processes, with Chinese vendors gaining market share by avoiding regulatory scrutiny that Western competitors impose.
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fromTravel + Leisure
6 months ago

Passport Stamps Are Disappearing Across 29 Countries This Fall-Here's What Travelers Need to Know

Countries in the European Union will soon replace passport stamps with biometric and electronic border systems, starting from October 12.
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