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WhatsApp panics as users flee to rivals in privacy boycott

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Tracking, tracing and transparency

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Censorship, surveillance could be the biggest rights challenges post Covid-19

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The ethics of Covid-19 status disclosure: To tell or not to tell?

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‘In Kenya, you cannot go anywhere without an ID. I don’t have one’

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New digital regulations mean the state can track you — no questions asked

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South Africa must implement privacy laws to protect citizens, says UN expert

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Apple wants US privacy law

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Don’t be glib about privacy rights

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Spy in the sky: Whose drone is it anyway?

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The flaw in factory resets

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WikiLeaks: Google ‘violated’ privacy by disclosing data

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Big Brother erodes our right to privacy

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