Moldova is facing a tide of disinformation unprecedented in complexity and aggression, the head of a new center meant to combat it tells WIRED. And platforms like Facebook, TikTok, Telegram and YouTube could do more.
As Israel intensifies its attacks on Lebanon, eerie messages have been arriving on the phones of civilians on both sides of the border, with authorities in each country accusing the other of psychological warfare.
The UKβs privacy regulator says the government did not take into account the intrusiveness of ankle tags that continuously monitor a personβs location.
Ankle tags that constantly log a personβs coordinates are part of a growing cadre of experimental surveillance tools that countries around the world are trying out on new arrivals.
In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is βimperative that we have access to the data.β