Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | March 2026
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Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter for March 2026 is out!
It is (unfortunately?) a thick one: read the surveillance-related news from war on Iran to India AI Summit and much more here:
surveillance-majority-world.net/2026/03/09/s...
09.03.2026 15:26
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- South to South AI Accountability CoLab [Civil Society Program]
- Why Latin America Is Unlikely to Mirror EU AI Regulation [News Analysis]
- US Issues Warning Over Zambia’s Cybersecurity Law [Policy Alert]
- Biometric Data in Gaza: Coercive Conditions for Aid Access [Advocacy Statement]
21.05.2025 14:31
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- Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D): A Contested Notion [Research Article]
- Uninvited Protagonists: The Networked Agency of Venezuelan Platform Data Workers [Research Article]
- ID System Challenges for Refugees in Kenya [Research Report]
21.05.2025 14:31
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Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | May 2025
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Surveillance in the Majority World's May Newsletter is out! featuring:
- Our attendance report of the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum 2025, Lusaka, Zambia! hashtag#DRIF25
- Altman's Worldcoin Ordered to Delete Biometric Data in Kenya Over Privacy Breach
21.05.2025 14:31
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> The debates on ‘Silicon Savannah’:
“The state as auteur: Timing digitisation in Africa’s Silicon Savannah” by @ayonadatta.bsky.social & @fennaimara.bsky.social
- De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Guide
Edited by Mareile Kaufmann & @heidimorklomell.bsky.social
21.04.2025 08:42
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The debates on ‘Silicon Savannah’:
“Making sense of funding inequalities in the venture capital space: a state of the art review paper with views from Africa”
& “Mapping the uneven financial geographies of venture capital in ‘Silicon Savannah’, Kenya” by Ben Mkalama & @econgeo.bsky.social
21.04.2025 08:42
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- Digital Public Infrastructures: A Critical Inquiry by @bulletprooflama.bsky.social
- An Intellectual History of Digital Colonialism
- Special Issue: Latin American Critical Data Studies (editorial by @grohmannrafael.bsky.social)
- USA Disappeared Tracker: A Data-Driven Call to Action
21.04.2025 08:42
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Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Apr 2025
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📣Our April Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter is out!
In this issue, you will read about:
- Morocco’s Surveillance Infrastructure Expands Ahead of Sports Mega-Events
- Indian Income Tax Bill 2025: Expanding Digital Search & Seizure Powers
21.04.2025 08:42
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7- Research Article: Algorithmic Bureaucracy in Peru by Diego Cerna Aragon and Luis García
8- The Surveillance Footprint in Africa Threatens Privacy and Data Protection
25.03.2025 21:41
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3- Activists at RightsCon Address U.S. Retreat from Digital Rights
4- Paper: EU’s Pre-Criminalization of African Migrants Through AI and Surveillance by Loren B Landau
5- India to Host the Next Global AI Summit
6- Israeli Military Developing AI System Using Palestinian Surveillance Data
25.03.2025 21:41
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Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Mar 2025
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📣Surveillance in the Majority World March newsletter is out!
In this issue, you will read about:
1- New Book: Digital Surveillance in Africa by @phatcontroller.bsky.social & Admire Mare
2- Surveillance & Society Journal’s Dialogue Section on Authoritarian Surveillance (@survstudiesnet.bsky.social)
25.03.2025 21:41
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Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Feb 2025
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📣Our February newsletter is out!
Read more on indigenous statistics, policing a postcolonial city, the political economy of smart surveillance in Curitiba, Brazil, Morocco’s AI-Enhanced governance of borders, predatory data & call for proposals for Africa Spyware & Digital Surveillance!
20.02.2025 17:26
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Teaser flyer for the conference. Includes location (King's College, London, and date, 23-24 June)
Polisky Dictatorsky
Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!!
While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!
18.12.2024 12:15
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How do autocrats stay in power?
Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇
24.01.2025 15:50
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Opening page of the "Museum of Stolen History" series in The Continent, showing the drawing of a mostly empty museum showcase with just one object: the wooden sculpture of Ngwi Ndem on the upper left shelf.
Highly recommended new series in @thecontinent.org on looted #CulturalHeritage & #colonialism:
"The Museum of Stolen History", curated by
@shola-lawal.bsky.social, art direction by @wynonamutisi.bsky.social - Part 1 on #NgwiNdem from #Cameroon, pp. 19-22:
www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
25.01.2025 10:47
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Big thanks to @jonasvalente.bsky.social, @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social, @icij.org, @eff.org!
20.01.2025 17:14
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Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Jan 2024
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Our January newsletter is out!
Read about Syrian surveillance revelation after Assad's fall, India’s draft data protection rules, Latin America’s 2024 overview of AI Integration, @oiioxford.bsky.social's Global Southing Internet workshop & New OA Book on Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries.
20.01.2025 17:11
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A reminder to join our panel at the International Public Policy Conference in Chiang Mai/Thailand this July! The abstract submission deadline is 31 Jan ⏰ The conference has a thematic focus on the Global South and I look very much forward to all the amazing discussions!
17.01.2025 13:49
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OII | Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop
This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.
🤖 Register and submit your abstract for the two-days workshop at the @oiioxford.bsky.social on:
"Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop" organised by @jonasvalente.bsky.social
🗓️10:00, Tuesday 25 March - 17:00, Wednesday 26 March, 2025
👉 www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
14.01.2025 10:39
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18 books to read from 2024
Check out these exciting books about Africa
Really excited to see that my book "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024) has made it into ThisWeekinAfrica's list of "18 books to read from 2024" - and in such wonderful company!
thisweekinafrica.substack.com/p/18-books-t...
13.01.2025 09:01
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Lawsuit Calls Scale AI ‘the Sordid Underbelly of the Generative AI Industry’
CEO Alexandr Wang is named in the suit, which cites emotional distress for contractors who worked on a self-harm-prevention project for Meta.
The sad thing is, this H1-B dust-up distracts from the fact that tech companies can (and are) increasingly outsource the vast majority of these jobs to workers who never have to step foot on American soil. ScaleAI is the most important company no one is talking about.
www.inc.com/sam-blum/sca...
28.12.2024 18:07
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