Freedom of Information and Data Protection
This report from Foundation for Media Alternatives examines the intersections of freedom of information and data protection in the Philippines.
View ArticleMeltdown of protections for data and privacy in Tanzania for LGBTQIA and others
The clampdown on gays and non-heteronormative people in Tanzania has been in the news, and while it seems it is the agenda of certain groups and people in the government, it is essential to examine the...
View ArticleJoint civil society open letter to the UN on public-private partnerships
The open letter, signed by APC and other civil society organisations, emphasises the fundamental importance of ensuring transparency and adequately assessing the human rights impact of any...
View ArticleStatement by the board of directors of May First Movement Technology on the...
May First expresses concern over the events of 6 January 2021, which clearly demonstrate there is a large, organised and growing fascist movement in the United States, propelled by a false narrative...
View ArticleThe impact of COVID-19 on digital rights in Africa
This publication is a compilation of 19 articles by African researchers, academics, journalists and human and digital rights activists on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on digital rights in Africa.
View ArticlePredation or innovation?
This piece is the second in a series where Julia Keseru explores the connection between our online systems and bodily integrity, and the long-term effects of digital innovation on our collective...
View ArticleUganda's digital identification systems and processes in a protracted crisis:...
This brief was informed by a systematic document review of published documents, including the Registration of Persons Act 2015, parliamentary reports, news articles and other reports on digital...
View ArticleCIPESA: Why data rights are central to protection of online freedom
In an increasingly digitised world, safeguarding data rights has become central to protecting individuals’ rights to access and share information, express themselves, and associate using the internet...
View ArticlePretty Good Podcast Episode 14: Can open source video platforms challenge...
With Big Tech monopolies owning many of the online services we regularly use, is there still a space (and an audience) for platforms and content outside this mostly proprietary ecosystem?Language English
View ArticleEXPOSÉ: Data rights in the time of COVID-19
EXPOSÉ is a new online publication from the Foundation for Media Alternatives that shines a light on the themes of privacy and data protection in the Philippine context. Its first issue focuses on...
View ArticleFacebook and privacy in the post-Roe era
The security and privacy practices of technology companies such as Facebook have once again come under fire from organisations that denounce these companies’ failure to meet international standards for...
View ArticleThis is how I would redesign data governance. How would you?
Inspired by a participant question raised at the recent Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF), this digital justice researcher attempts an answer with five suggestions and poses an...
View ArticleDisruptive technologies, surveillance as governance: Data (un)democracy in...
India’s focus on a deterministic and ideological usage of technology to manage the COVID-19 health crisis has not only mismanaged the pandemic, but has pushed the country to contend with Orwellian...
View ArticleTowards digital authoritarianism in Nepal: Surveillance, data collection, and...
The government’s COVID-19 response opened the door to various threats to human and digital rights. With the influence of its neighbours with poor rights records, Nepal must decide on its own path if it...
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