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Data-centric authoritarianism: How China's development of frontier technologies could globalize repression
Washington DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED);International Forum for Democratic Studies (2024), 38 pp.
Data grab: The new colonialism of big tech and how to fight back
London: WH Allen (2024), x, 303 pp.
"If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from developing countries. It made shiny promises to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It made native populati
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Londa Digital Rights and Inclusion in Africa Report 2022
Lagos: Paradigm Initiative (2023), 291 pp.
Restrictions on Internet Freedoms: Recommendations for Thai Policy-Makers and Civil Society
Bangkok: Asia Centre (2023), 16 pp.
Weapons of Control, Shields of Impunity: Internet Shutdowns in 2022
KeepItOn (2023), 32 pp.
Data Governance in Zimbabwe: Opportunities and Challenges
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2023), 12 pp.
"Recent legislation on data linking national security and cybersecurity undermines the creation of a trustworthy data environment. Restrictions on information flows have immediate and medium-term costs to digital economic activity, which in turn have knock-on effects for the prospect of any subseque
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Online Repression and Tactical Evasion: Evidence from the 2020 Day of Anger Protests in Egypt
Democratization, volume 30, issue 2 (2023), pp. 325-345
"Following the 2011 Arab Spring, autocrats have sought to limit citizens’ ability to publicize offline protests over social media. In this article, we explore how users adjust to these restrictions. To do so, we analyse 33 million tweets sent from Egypt during the “Day of Anger” protests in Se
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Information Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) on the Impact of Cyber Security Cybercrime Laws enacted by Southern Africa Governments on Media Freedom and Digital Rights
Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA);Internews;USAID (2023), 633 pp.
"In 2023, Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA) through its consortium partner, Internews, undertook the most comprehensive review yet of laws affecting media practice and the freedom of expression, including cyber laws, penal codes, constitutions and acts of parliament, in the sixteen Souther
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Democratizing Digital: Landscape Assessment
Digital Frontiers;USAID (2023), 57 pp.
Navigating Freedom: Making Sense of Lebanon's Digital Discourse on Free Expression
Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2023), 13 pp.
Digital constitutionalism: The role of internet bills of rights
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xii, 242 pp.
"Investigating the impact of digital technology on contemporary constitutionalism, this book offers an overview of the transformations that are currently occurring at constitutional level, highlighting their link with ongoing societal changes. It reconstructs the multiple ways in which constitutiona
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Country Report: Biometric Digital Identity Programs and Independent Journalism in Uganda
African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2023), 28 pp.
A Global Digital Compact: An Open, Free and Secure Digital Future for All
United Nations (2023), 31 pp.
Mapping the supply of surveillance technologies to Africa: Case studies from Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Malawi, and Zambia
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2023), 167 pp.
Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook
Human Rights Watch (2023), 68 pp.
"No Internet Means no Work, no Pay, no Food": Internet Shutdowns Deny Access to Basic Rights in "Digital India"
Human Rights Watch (2023), 109 pp.
Digital policy in an age of global systemic rivalry: Challenges for liberal democracies
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2023), 30 pp.
"Liberal democracies must continue to consistently stand up for internet freedom, democracy and human rights. Germany and the European Union are regarded as role models. It is imperative therefore that they refrain from presenting legislative initiatives themselves that restrict the human right to p
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Das digitale Briefgeheimnis: Herleitung des Rechts auf Verschlüsselung
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2023), 26 pp.
"1. Aus dem nationalen Verfassungsrecht ist ein Recht auf Verschlüsselung ableitbar.
2. Aus dem europäischen Verfassungsrecht ist ein Recht auf Verschlüsselung ableitbar.
3. Ein Recht auf Verschlüsselung ergibt sich zwar nicht als solches aus den nationalen und europäischen verfassungsrechtlich
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The everything everywhere censorship in China: China is exporting its model of Internet governance based on digital repression. The free world must protect our values and take back our Internet
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2023), 51 pp.
"Democracies must say no to the technologies, platforms, standards, and frameworks shrewdly proposed by China in various international fora and technical or standards bodies in order to make our Internet more like the one in China. Internet governance must be kept open and participatory for all stak
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