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  1. article

    Best kept secret? Google move shows mapping risks

    Tue, 6 Oct 2020 04:35 AM

    Satellite imagery and virtual reality may be putting sacred spaces and privacy at risk

  2. article

    Land hunters: App matches Zimbabwe's farmers with vacant plots

    Fri, 25 Sep 2020 07:34 AM

    The app's creators hope it can help boost food security, in a country where more than half of irrigable land is lying idle

  3. article

    Australia asks Google to block users 'walking' sacred site

    Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:41 AM

    Indigenous communities who successfully campaigned for the sacred site to be closed to climbers hope to remove virtual hikers

  4. article

    Singapore's Universal Studios deploys facial recognition for entry

    Mon, 3 Aug 2020 10:29 AM

    Visitors will have to agree to have their faces scanned in order to gain entry to the park

  5. blog

    OPINION: Improve mobile access for refugees in Kenya

    Tue, 30 Jun 2020 08:47 AM

    The coronavirus highlights the need for contactless money transfer and mobile banking

  6. article

    Mind the gap: Affordable internet vital for coronavirus recovery

    Tue, 9 Jun 2020 09:46 AM

    As lockdowns lift but social-distancing rules remain, more services and businesses will continue to go digital

  7. article

    Privacy debate heats up over India contact tracing app

    Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:02 PM

    Without a data protection law, India's contact-tracing app risks becoming a surveillance tool, digital rights experts warn

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    ANALYSIS-No title, no problem: Land rights with digital maps, social media

    Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:30 AM

    Authorities are embracing digital evidence such as photographs on social media to establish property claims of displaced people

  9. article

    India's poor risk loss of privacy, land in drive to digitise records

    Mon, 9 Mar 2020 08:33 AM

    Experts say push to digitise land records to establish ownership could make poor communities more vulnerable to evictions