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MediaSafe
Thomson Foundation (2026)
"This 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 journalist, thes
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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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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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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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2025 State of Humanitarian and Development Cybersecurity Report: Continued progress, but more is needed to keep pace with rapidly evolving threats
NetHope (2025), 37 pp.
"This report reveals a notable rise in perceived cybersecurity risk within the nonprofit sector, with 70% of organizations reporting an increased cyber risk profile in 2025, up from 51% in 2024. Encouragingly, confidence in managing these risks has also improved, with 56% of organizations feeling co
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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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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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Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology Global Politics, Law and International Relations
Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2nd ed. (2025), 428 pp.
"Bringing together perspectives from academia and practice, this second edition Research Handbook provides fresh insights into debates surrounding digital technology and how to respect and protect human rights in an increasingly digital world. New and updated chapters cover the issues posed by the m
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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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A Digital Security Guide for Everyone
Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2024), 41 pp.
"This guide is aimed less at tech experts and more at anyone communicating online and keen on grasping key concepts and measures surrounding digital security. The guide starts by addressing fundamental concepts such as virtual private networks (VPNs), password security, and the emerging challenges p
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Privacy cynicism and diminishing utility of state surveillance: A natural experiment of mandatory location disclosure on China’s Weibo
Big Data & Society, issue April–June (2024), 17 pp.
"This article examines the public response to mandatory location disclosure (MLD), a new surveillance technology implemented on China’s Sina Weibo. Initially introduced to geo-tag posts related to the Ukraine War, the MLD eventually expanded to encompass all posts and comments on the platform. Dra
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Digital Surveillance, Online and Offline Harassment, and Feminist Media Politics
"This chapter examines the digital surveillance and harassment experiences faced by female journalists in Zimbabwe in the 2023 pre-election period covering the year 2022 up to August 2023. The examination is based on interviews conducted with seven purposefully selected female reporters and editors
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Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society
Boca Raton; London: CRC Press (2024), xvi, 543 pp.
"As AI technology is rapidly progressing in capability and being adopted more widely across society, it is more important than ever to understand the potential risks AI may pose and how AI can be developed and deployed safely. Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society offers a comprehensive and
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Watching the watchdogs: Spyware surveillance of journalists in Europe and the ongoing fight for accountability
Potsdam; Vienna: Friedrich Naumann Foundation; International Press Institute (IPI) (2024), 18 pp.
"The surveillance of journalists, including using spyware technology, poses a fundamental threat to media freedom, the digital safety of journalists, and source protection within the European Union. The agreement on the European Media Freedom Act in December 2023 offers some further protections agai
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