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Handbook on Data Protection and Privacy for Developers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India
New Delhi: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All (2026), 117 pp.
"This Handbook is designed as a practical guide for developers of AI systems, especially from early-stage startups, to navigate data protection obligations and ethical considerations, in a clear and actionable manner. Rather than serving as a comprehensive legal or
technical manual, the Handbook co
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"Digital scams have become a global development challenge, inflicting costs of up to one trillion dollars annually. Beyond financial losses, scams inflict emotional harm and erode trust in digital systems, weakening confidence in governments, financial institutions, and online services. As countries
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Automated Disinformation and Malicious AI Swarms: Risks for Democracy and Development in Africa
Online: arXiv, First (2026), 26 pp.
"Generative artificial intelligence is reshaping how information is produced, accessed, and circulated, while enabling disinformation campaigns of increasing scale and sophistication. There is currently no clear evidence that fully autonomous AI swarms conduct influence operations at scale, but thei
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Safety by Design: Pathways to Safer Social Media Platforms
Berlin: HateAid (2026), 18 pp.
"Europe’s approach to platform regulation is uniquely rooted in its commitment to democratic values, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights. To defend these principles and safeguard its digital sovereignty, the EU must assert the user rights enshrined in its legislation—resisting both the
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Safety, Surveillance and the Protection of Journalists
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper examines the safety of journalists in the age of artificial intelligence, and how they can be protected. It surveys the surveillance industry, from Pegasus to Predator to Graphite, and how AI has made targeting cheaper and broader; it documents the epidemic of AI-facilitated gender-based
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Using digital technologies safely, wisely and securely: A short guide for small civil society organisations
ICT4D Collective, Version 7 (2026), 13 pp.
"This short guide is designed to provide small civil society organisations (especially those with few resources) with basic advice on how to use digital tech safely, wisely and securely/privately. It is not intended to be all-inclusive or highly technical, but instead focuses on things that should
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"The World Map is a research tool to assess and compare laws, policies and practices on encryption across countries worldwide. It provides a structured, comparative overview of how far governments interfere with or enable strong encryption. It also assesses how well guarded these legal powers are ag
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MediaSafe
Thomson Foundation (2026)
"This [online course] series was made to equip you with essential tools to protect your work, your sources, and yourself. This practical and accessible resource for journalists offers expert guidance on digital security. Whether you're an investigative reporter, a media professional, or an aspiring
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Code of Courage: A Comic About Digital Security for Activists
Technische Universität Darmstadt (2025), 20 pp.
"Security is paramount - online and offline. Maria, Alex, Sarah, and Daniel are four friends deeply committed to human rights activism in a country grappling with increasing authoritarianism. Their efforts to organize and amplify their message on social media are met with relentless challenges: inte
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Guía de implementación de protección de datos y uso responsable de inteligencia artifical en Bolivia
La Paz: InternetBolivia; Consorcio InDiCo Global (2025), 63 pp.
"En Bolivia, aunque no existe una ley integral de protección de datos personales, el marco constitucional y normativas sectoriales reconocen el derecho a la privacidad, lo que refuerza la necesidad de avanzar hacia políticas institucionales de cumplimiento voluntario, con base en estándares inter
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Media Self-Regulation in the Use of AI: Delimitation of Multimodal Generative Content and Ethical Commitments to Transparency and Verification
Journalism and Media, volume 6, issue 1 (2025), pp. 1–19
"The expansion of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) across different stages of production and distribution in journalism is opening a debate on its applications within newsrooms and in business models. This research studies how different media outlets, media groups and institutions are beginni
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Digital Surveillance in Africa: Power, Agency, and Rights
London: Zed Books; Bloomsbury Publishing (2025), xxii, 214 pp.
"Comparatively little is known about the millions of dollars now being spent on digital technologies for use in the illegal and illegitimate surveillance of citizens in Africa. In this open-access third volume of Bloomsbury s Digital Africa series, a broad range of African and European scholars and
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A Companion to Digital Ethics
Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons Ltd Wiley-Blackwell, 1st (2025), 352 pp.
"This multidisciplinary reference work examines ethical challenges arising from digital technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, data use, online platforms and digital governance. Its relevance to COMMBOX lies especially in chapters on AI ethical principles, fairness and transparency, exp
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Peer(ing) pressure: Maintenance, care, and infrastructural capital in a cybersecurity intervention at Internet scale
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 20 pp.
"We discuss a successful intervention in the management of Internet infrastructure – a campaign which has achieved genuine traction against a cybercrime issue that has dogged the network engineering community for more than thirty years. Internet infrastructure is often characterised as beset by pe
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Measuring cybercrime and cyberdeviance in surveys
In: The Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance
London; New York: Routledge (2025), pp. 44-72
"Cybercrime has been on the rise since the 1990s, and so is the need for researchers and public administrations to better estimate its prevalence, incidence, distribution and nature. The limitations of police statistics as measures of crime are widely known and seem even more severe—in terms of th
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Privacy Scorecard Review 2024: Rwanda, Tanzania, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda
Deep Insights
Kampala: Unwanted Witness (2025), 117 pp.
"The evolving digital landscape across East Africa and beyond underscores the critical need for robust data protection and privacy frameworks. While countries like Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mauritius, and Zimbabwe have made significant progress in establishing legal and institutional mechanisms to sa
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Cybercrime-Trends 2025
Köln: sosafe (2025), 22 pp.
"Die Reichweite der Cybercrime-Branche hat einen neuen Höhepunkt erreicht. 72% aller Organisationen weltweit berichten vom steigenden Cyberrisiko. Der Schaden durch Cybercrime betrug 2024 allein in Deutschland 178,6 Mrd. Euro. Das sind 20% mehr als im Vorjahr. Cyberkriminelle hängen Organisatione
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