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The Kivu Security Tracker, a "data-centric crisis map" of atrocities in Congo, has been taken offline after exposing the identities of thousands of vulnerable people

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The Kivu Security Tr thousands a "data-centric crisis map" of atrocities in eastern Congo.

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