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How Big Data Can Bolster Autocratic Legitimacy (Via the Rhetoric of Safety and Convenience)
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2022), 14 pp.
"This Policy Brief examines the different ways in which big data collection serves autocratic agendas by hiding the oppressive potential of heightened surveillance through promises of enhanced safety, convenience, and modernisation. Political actors with autocratic agendas can package their governan
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Was heißt digitale Souveränität? Diskurse, Praktiken und Voraussetzungen »individueller« und »staatlicher Souveränität« im digitalen Zeitalter
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 320 pp.
"Die neuen sozio-technischen Verhältnisse der digitalen Transformation fordern neuzeitliche Konzepte des »souveränen Staates« und des »souveränen Subjekts« heraus, was in Debatten um »digitale Souveränität« problematisiert wird. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes diskutieren diese Herausford
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Let the Net Work: Internet Shutdowns in India 2022
New Delhi: SFLC (2022), 48 pp.
"The observations made in this report make emphatically clear the failings of the current legal framework in defending human rights in the context of access to the internet. As seen in the report, the disruption of access to the internet is triggered at the most menial of instances, including for re
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Kazakhstan’s Bloody January: Digital Repression on the “New Silk Road”
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2022), 24 pp.
"In January 2022, Kazakhstan’s government shut down internet access for several days while enacting a violent crackdown on initially peaceful protests triggered by hikes in fuel prices. This policy brief examines Kazakhstan’s internet and media landscape, the (re)actions of civil society and the
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The Law of Global Digitality
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiii, 258 pp.
"The book compares six different areas of law that have been particularly exposed to global digitality, namely laws regulating consumer contracts, data protection, the media, financial markets, criminal activity and intellectual property law. Comparing how these very different areas of law have evol
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Super-Scoring? Datengetriebene Sozialtechnologien als neue Bildungsherausforderung
kopaed; Grimme-Institut (2021), 263 pp.
"Beim so genannten „Scoring“ wird einer Person mithilfe algorithmischer Verfahren ein Zahlenwert zugeordnet, um ihr Verhalten zu bewerten und zu beeinflussen. „Super-Scoring“-Praktiken gehen noch weiter und führen Punktesysteme und Skalen aus unterschiedlichen Lebensbereichen zusammen, wie
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Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xi, 244 pp.
"This book examines how Indigenous Peoples around the world are demanding greater data sovereignty, and challenging the ways in which governments have historically used Indigenous data to develop policies and programs. In the digital age, governments are increasingly dependent on data and data analy
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Timor Leste: Internet Freedoms under Threat
Bangkog: Asia Centre (2021), 26 pp.
Myanmar: Dismantling Dissent. Crackdowns on Internet Freedoms
Bangkog: Asia Centre (2021), 27 pp.
Internet Freedoms in Cambodia: A Gateway to Control
Bangkog: Asia Centre (2021), 32 pp.
"Between 2016 and 2021, 68 shutdowns have been documented in 29 African countries. This demonstrates that government-mandated internet disruptions are an established norm in the region, despite very little scientific or social evidence demonstrating their effectiveness. A number of pointers and fact
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Making ICT Policy in Africa: An Introductory Handbook
Key Guides
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 71 pp.
"This introductory handbook to the development of ICT policy in Africa aims to assist law makers, government officials, lawyers, civil society organisations (CSOs), academics and members of the public engaged in the development and implementation of ICT policy. Its primary purpose is to provide an i
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"Infodemic" and SDGs: Internet Freedoms in Southeast Asia
Bangkog: Asia Centre (2021), 46 pp.
Private Daten: Unsere Spuren in der digitalen Welt
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2021), 107 pp.
"Jeder von uns hinterlässt Datenspuren, beim Surfen, Onlineshopping und in den Social Media. Es sind der Staat, die Wirtschaft, aber auch Kriminelle, die Zugang zu diesen Daten haben oder sich zu verschaffen wissen. Dieser Sachverhalt hat große Bedeutung für den Einzelnen, aber auch für die demo
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Myanmar Coup and Internet Shutdowns
Asia Centre (2021), 15 pp.
"Asia Centre’s Briefing Note, Myanmar Coup and Internet Shutdowns, tracks the period 1 February to 31 March 2021. The Note provides a timeline of the shutdowns, reactions from protestors, technology companies and the international community, legal analysis of key laws and Myanmar’s international
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The Open Internet on the Brink: A Model to Save its Future
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (2021), 92 pp.
"Existing international alliances and institutions are falling short in protecting the future of the internet. Our report, presented as a series, sets out a new model of internet internationalism that reassesses states’ core interests and identifies novel coalitions that combine security guarantee
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