Tom Porter, Business Insider, Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people’s data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there, 24 July 2023 “But as tech firms rush to secure lucrative Saudi contracts, human rights activists are warning that Saudi officials could use the vast stores of digital information being stored in the kingdom to intensify its brutal persecution of dissidents.”
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