Filling a gap

Filling a gap

Suppliers of digital forensics tools to Myanmar’s police and military insist they cancelled software licences in 2018, after the Myanmar security forces perpetrated crimes against the Rohingya, and used cellphone extraction tools in the trial of two Reuters journalists. One US company, however, seems to have stepped into that market gap.

In praise of ants

In praise of ants

It’s seven months since the incomparable Gaëtan Mootoo took his own life. Gaëtan dedicated that life to a travail de fourmi, ant-work, though on a grand canvas. As Amnesty International’s longest-serving Africa researcher, he spent over thirty years patiently documenting the ways in which individual named women, men and children have been affected by war, state oppression, poverty and violence across West and Central Africa. In the 1980s he gathered…