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Cyber Capacity Building and Strategic Engagement with Africa: A New Mission for Germany and Europe

Kaan Sahin

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2022), 23 pp.

"The present paper sheds light on the current trends of cyber capacity building and its implications in Africa and beyond as well as on its actor landscape. It argues that Germany and Europe should strategically engage more with African countries in terms of cyber capacity building to avoid that the ... more

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African Data Trusts: New Tools Towards Collective Data Governance?

Nokuthula Olorunju, Rachel Adams

Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 14 pp.

"This paper discusses whether data trusts are feasible structures in an African context, concluding that there are significant limitations to a straight import of trust models developed elsewhere. It goes on to outline specific considerations that should be prioritised in the development of bottom u ... more

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New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power

Andreas Hepp, Juliane Jarke, Leif Kramp (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxv, 473 pp.

"This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data infrastructure. They make visible local working and living conditions, and the reso ... more

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Cybersecurity in Poland: Legal Aspects

Katarzyna Chalubinska-Jentkiewicz, Filip Radoniewicz, Tadeusz Zielinski (eds.)

Cham: Springer (2022), xvi, 513 pp.

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Data Protection Laws in Northern Africa: Regulatory Approaches, Key Principles, Selected Documents

Patricia Boshe, Moritz Henneman

Beirut: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2022), 75 pp.

"This report provides an in-depth overview of the current state and trends of data protection regulation of seven North African countries – namely Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Libya, Sudan, and Tunisia. The st udy tackles regulatory approaches, key principles, and selected instruments. Fro ... more

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La privacidad en la era de las redes sociales

Miguel Recio Gayo

México, DF: Instituto Nacional de Transparencia, Acceso a la Información y Protección de Datos Personales (INAI) (2022), 135 pp.

"El presente ensayo que usted tiene entre sus manos trata sobre las consideraciones y desafíos entorno a la agenda de la privacidad y protección de datos personales en las redes sociales digitales. El autor hace mención reiteradamente sobre las implicaciones que tiene en el ámbito legal; pero si ... more

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From Boots on the Ground to Bytes in Cyberspace: A Mapping Study on the Use of Information CommunicationsTechnologies (ICTs) in Security Services Provided by Commercial Actors

Anne-Marie Buzatu

Geneva: ICT for Peace Foundation (2022), v, 62 pp.

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Data Protection & Privacy Guides

Portland, Oregon; Edinburgh: Mercy Corps (2022), 24 pp.

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Evaluating online safety initiatives: How to build the evidence base on what works to keep children safe online

UNICEF;Young and Resilient Research Centre (2022), 59 pp.

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Facial recognition in Latin America: Trends in the implementation of a perverse technology

Jamila Venturini, Vladimir Garay

AlSur (2022), 24 pp.

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Cyber security, surveillance and journalism in Scotland

Angela Daly, Elaine Robinson, David McMenemy

Dundee: Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Sciences (2022), 21 pp.

"The report is the output of a RSE-funded project on how journalists in Scotland undertake their work in the digital age from the point of view of cyber security and surveillance impacts. This research interviewed ten journalists from Scotland, from various beats, locations, and employment backgroun ... more

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Tech Care: A step-by-step guide to providing digital support for civil society

Flo Pagano, Inés Binder (ed.)

Digital Defenders Partnership;Access Now (2022), 90 pp.

"What we lacked was a set of simple instructions that could help navigate the workflows and procedures of a digital security helpline, while focusing on the specific demand of offering a service to groups that are often underfunded, understaffed, non-hierarchical and exposed to disproportionate thre ... more

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Child online protection in sports

Geneva: ITU (2022), 5 pp.

"The intention of this Brief is to support sports organizations – clubs and associations at both the grassroots and professional levels – to better protect children online. It aims to help: – Develop a dedicated child online protection strategy and policy, which can be integrated into existin ... more

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A study paper on human-centred cybersecurity: Kenyan Fintech sector

Grace Githaiga, Victor Kapiyo, Mwendwa Kivuva

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2022), 37 pp.

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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’ ... more

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“It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you”: Navigating risk to journalists when connected devices are everywhere

Anjuli R. K. Shere, Jason R. C. Nurse, Andrew Martin

IAMCR 2022 Conference “Communication Research in the Era of Neo-Globalisation: Reorientations, Challenges and Changing Contexts” (2022), 18 pp.

"The consumer Internet of Things (IoT) is a fast-growing area of technology, increasingly embedded in the public and private spheres, including both in and on bodies. There are various security concerns and academic investigations into potential risks of this expansion, but none yet specifically add ... ressing the implications to journalists and the democratic pillar of press freedom. Not only are risks to this community not yet assessed, but IoT threats generally are not communicated without technical jargon, making them inaccessible to non-experts. Given the importance of a free press, mapping IoT devices and, crucially, communicating associated risk in ways understandable and actionable to journalists themselves, is key. Journalists and the press are particularly at-risk from IoT devices that may feature in the environments with which they must regularly interact because of the fundamental imperative of source confidentiality. Previous research demonstrated that members of the press are largely unaware of the ways in which the IoT can threaten their work and wellbeing. The networked capabilities of IoT devices increases the ease with which well-resourced threat actors can target journalists who routinely handle confidential information and are already at risk around the world from a variety of non-IoT threats. This paper therefore presents a novel categorisation of both ambient and wearable consumer IoT devices according to the environments in which journalists are most likely to interact with them. It draws on related academic work classifying devices for technical audiences to create a system that is accessible to journalists and their sources. Its goal is to make members of the media aware of the prevalence of these technologies and which of the devices’ capabilities may increase their individual risk. Useful risk assessments cannot be undertaken without an accurate understanding of where threats may be encountered. By systematically outlining risks in numerous environments, this taxonomy can be easily incorporated into existing security training materials and risk assessments for journalists. This paper presents a novel taxonomy to codify and organise IoT present in different environments, with examples of how journalists and their work could be impacted, both passively (i.e. via surveillance) or actively (i.e. via information theft). It also discusses how different environments that may contain IoT devices are often under the control of actors whom journalists cannot easily influence, nor protect themselves against. Especially as these devices continue to proliferate, journalistic risk from IoT devices in surrounding environments are growing. It is therefore important to address the contemporary and emerging risks to journalism that are associated with connected devices. This paper enables journalists and readers to not only visualise and conceptualise how IoT devices in different environments may create risks, its user-focused language and organisation also empower journalists to begin to use this taxonomy for awareness, mitigation, and protective purposes." (Abstract) more

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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 ... more

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Project Torogoz: Extensive Hacking of Media & Civil Society in El Salvador with Pegasus Spyware

John Scott-Railton, Bill Marczak, Paolo Nigro Herrero, Bahr Abdul Razzak, Noura Al-Jizawi, Salvatore Solimano, Ron Deibert

Toronto: Citizen Lab;Access Now (2022)

"The Citizen Lab and Access Now have conducted a joint investigation into Pegasus hacking in El Salvador in collaboration with Frontline Defenders, SocialTIC, and Fundación Acceso. We confirmed 35 cases of journalists and members of civil society whose phones were successfully infected with NSO’s ... more

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The Intersectionality and Cybersecurity Toolkit

Marissa Conway, Nehmat Kaur

Manchester: Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (2022), 29 pp.

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Sexualisierte Gewalt und digitale Medien: Reflexive Handlungsempfehlungen für die Fachpraxis

Frederic Vobbe, Katharina Kärgel

Springer VS (2022), 213 pp.

"In dieser Open-Access-Publikation stellen Katharina Kärgel und Frederic Vobbe anhand sieben typischer Fallbeispiele Handlungsempfehlungen für einen adäquaten Umgang mit mediatisierter sexualisierter Gewalt dar. Die Empfehlungen sind das Ergebnis des vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschu ... more

OECD Policy Framework on Digital Security: Cybersecurity for Prosperity Key Guidance

OECD Policy Framework on Digital Security: Cybersecurity for Prosperity
Key Guidance