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People gather outside the Thai embassy in Yangon to apply for visas on February 16, days after the regime announced it would enforce mandatory military service. (AFP)

Surveillance upgrade: Junta rolls out e-IDs

The Myanmar regime is mandating new biometric IDs for foreign travel and public services, in a move that could boost its surveillance powers, but a clumsy rollout is creating bottlenecks and fuelling illegal migration.

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Surveillance state: Myanmar’s digital war

A brutal digital crackdown is underway in Myanmar, with the junta tracking SIMs, scanning faces, banning VPNs and turning technology into a weapon of total control – yet resistance persists in the shadows.
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