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The Key Player in Russia's Cybersphere: What the West Needs to Know About VK Company
Berlin: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP) (2023), 20 pp.
Field Manual against Online Harassment
PEN America (2023)
"Whether you’re experiencing or witnessing online abuse, this Field Manual offers concrete strategies for how to defend yourself and others. We wrote this guidance with and for those disproportionately impacted by online abuse: writers, journalists, artists, and activists who identify as women, BI
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Die Stärkung von Kinderrechten durch den Digital Services Act (DSA): Wege zu Best-Practice-Ansätzen
Sicherheit für Kinder in der digitalen Welt (SIKID) (2023), 18 pp.
"Das vorliegende Papier soll die Umsetzung des neuen Digital Services Act (DSA) konstruktiv aus einer kinderrechtlichen Perspektive begleiten. Dabei wird gezeigt, welche Potenziale sich aus dem DSA ergeben, um Kinderrechte im Digitalen zu stärken. Im Fokus stehen Anbietermaßnahmen sowie auch Präv
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“Playing” in the Eyes of the Ferret Team: Examining the Use of Surveillance Strategies by Zimbabwean Journalists
African Journalism Studies, volume 43, issue 1 (2022), pp. 53-69
"The Zimbabwean state has in recent years stepped up its surveillance efforts on citizens, civil society and journalists who are viewed as the “enemies of the state”. This state surveillance has been argued to infringe on citizens’ right to privacy and access to information. We are mindful tha
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Does our past have a right to be forgotten by the Internet? Case Law on the So-Called Right to Be Forgotten
New York: Columbia University, Global Freedom of Expression (2022), 28 pp.
Security Considerations When Engaging Sensitive Sources
Internews (2022), 5 pp.
"These recommendations are targeted towards individuals working with sensitive sources on high-level projects that uncover government or corporate misdeeds. We have drafted a few additional steps you should keep in mind if you will be communicating with sensitive sources. Following the below steps w
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Policy Brief: Nine Steps to Protect Our Data and Privacy in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Personal Data Protection Bill, 2021
Access Now (2022), 10 pp.
"This policy brief is an Access Now publication. It gives context about the Personal Data Protection Bill in the Parliament of Sri Lank, states the key areas of concerns in the present bill, and proposes nine (9) recommendations." (commbox)
The Chilling: What More Can News Organisations Do to Combat Gendered Online Violence?
UNESCO;International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2022), 42 pp.
"[...] many newsroom reactions to gender-based online violence appear to have been non-existent, ad hoc, or inadequate. At times, they have even damaged the women journalists targeted. Large global news organisations sometimes identified as “best practice” exemplars by expert responders intervie
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A Survival Toolkit for Journalists: How to Protect Yourself Against Digital Surveillance
Internews;Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA) (2022), 24 pp.
"Surveillance of journalists has become a very topical and controversial issue that now requires attention at a number of levels – the level of the state, CSOs, and journalism organisations themselves. The systematic and arbitrary harvesting of journalists’ information, tracking and targeting of
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Guidelines for Judicial Actors on Privacy and Data Protection
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 23 pp.
"These guidelines aim to provide a general framework for judicial actors to assess matters of privacy and data protection in the face of other rights, such as freedom of expression and the right to privacy. The document includes relevant case law from various national, international and regional bod
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Seguridad digital
FundaRedes (2022), 15 pp.
"En la era digital los equipos electrónicos y la información manejada por los activistas y defensores de Derechos Humanos también están en riesgo. La seguridad digital, está compuesta por un conjunto de herramientas, hábitos y métodos empleados para proteger los equipos electrónicos y la inf
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Privacy Imperilled: Analysis of Surveillance, Encryption and Data Localisation Laws in Africa
CIPESA (2022), 67 pp.
"In the past few years, many countries across the continent have enacted various laws that permit surveillance, mandate telecommunication intermediaries to facilitate the interception of communication, stipulate the mandatory collection of biometric data, limit the use of encryption, require the loc
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Die Zukunft von Privatheit und Selbstbestimmung: Analysen und Empfehlungen zum Schutz der Grundrechte in der digitalen Welt
Springer Vieweg (2022), xxiii, 304 pp.
"Die in diesem Open-Access-Buch zusammengeführten interdisziplinären Untersuchungen des „Forums Privatheit“ gehen der Frage nach, wie sich die Verwirklichungsbedingungen von Privatheit und Selbstbestimmung durch die Digitalisierung aller Lebensbereiche radikal ändern. Nahezu jede Lebensregung
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The State of Digital Security Among Independent Media Organizations in Lebanon
Beirut: Samir Kassir Foundation (2022), 31 pp.
"This research was conducted to assess the digital security posture among independent media organizations in Lebanon. It is significant for media organizations in Lebanon to maintain a good standard of digital security, especially in an era when press freedom is increasingly under attack." (Introduc
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Menschenrechte im Digitalen: Wie wir Freiheit im digitalen Raum sichern. Handlungsoptionen für die Bundesregierung
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 22 pp.
Cyber Security Politics: Socio-Technological Transformations and Political Fragmentation
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xii, 272 pp.
"Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses interact, the first part of the book looks at the current use of cyberspace in conflictual settings, while the second focuses on political responses by state and non-state acto
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What is an Ideal Internet to You? A Global Exploration of Digital Rights Trends
Pollicy (2022), 56 pp.
"This white paper seeks to provide an overview of the core thematic issues around digital rights and digital safety across the world. The content builds off a global mapping exercise of organisations and knowledge, predominantly focused on Africa and the Middle East, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Eas
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Device Location Security
Internews (2022), 4 pp.
"This guide looks at how our mobile devices could leak data about our locations and what we could do to protect ourselves against it. It’s designed for most Central European journalists’ threat models and only looks at how our mobile devices could give up precise location data on us. It doesn’
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The Unfreedom Monitor: Data Governance
Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 11 pp.
"Data governance is an integral aspect of digital authoritarianism because it incorporates any type of control, authority, and manipulation of data […]. Within the context of digital authoritarianism, data governance may incorporate both states and non-state actors that collaborate with states to
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OECD Policy Framework on Digital Security: Cybersecurity for Prosperity
Key Guidance
Paris: OECD (2022), 38 pp.
"The OECD Policy Framework on Digital Security helps policy makers understand the economic and social dimension of cybersecurity, raises their awareness about the OECD approach to digital security policy, and encourages them to make use of OECD digital security recommendations to develop better poli
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