Tag: Investigative Journalism
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🇮🇳 India’s Data Privacy Law Puts Journalism on Trial: The Red Flags Behind the Newsroom Revolt
India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act was created to give citizens greater control over their digital information. But 21 major news publishers say the law went too far in protecting personal data without creating a corresponding exemption for journalism. At the center of the dispute are consent requirements, deletion rights, government information demands, source confidentiality…
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🇺🇸 ONE Data Launches Free AI Tool to Track Africa’s Development Finance
ONE Data has launched a free AI-powered Development Finance Observatory designed to help journalists and researchers trace aid, government budgets and debt figures back to their original sources.
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Book Review: The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers
There is a temptation to treat online romance scams as morality plays with obvious heroes and villains. Victims are portrayed as naïve. Scammers become caricatures—faceless criminals hiding behind glowing laptop screens somewhere in West Africa. Carlos Barragán’s The Yahoo Boys resists that easy narrative. Instead, it asks a far more interesting question: What happens when…
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America’s Global Kill Chain: Data, Surveillance, and the New Geography of Modern Warfare
In the 21st century, war is no longer defined solely by battlegrounds, uniforms, or declared invasions. Instead, it is increasingly shaped by data flows, encrypted communications, satellite surveillance, and algorithmic decision-making systems that identify and track individuals across borders. A recent investigative narrative exploring U.S. intelligence operations highlights what some analysts describe as a “global…