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Big Data Has Ushered in a New and Cruel Era of Immigrant Surveillance

Alvaro M. Bedoya

How Tech Tools Helped Taiwanese Activists Turn a Social Movement Into Real Policy Change

Jordan Sandman and Ben Gregori

The TikTok Deal Stinks

Jonathan L. Fischer

The WeChat Ban Is Particularly Cruel to This Group of American Users

Whitney Tesi

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