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AI beyond business: digital rights, NGOs, and the fight against food waste

9 Apr 2026
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AI beyond business: digital rights, NGOs, and the fight against food waste
Somewhere on Earth Podcast ↗
9 Apr 2026
AI beyond business: digital rights, NGOs, and the fight against food waste
KeepItOn 2025 Internet Shutdowns Report
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The dark side of the kill switch: inside 2025’s record-breaking internet shutdowns

9 Apr 2026
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The dark side of the kill switch: inside 2025’s record-breaking internet shutdowns
Somewhere on Earth Podcast ↗
9 Apr 2026
The dark side of the kill switch: inside 2025’s record-breaking internet shutdowns
Espionage for repression: forensic analysis of a cross-border hack-for-hire campaign targeting civil society in MENA
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Hack-for-hire spyware campaign targets journalists in Middle East, North Africa

9 Apr 2026
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Hack-for-hire spyware campaign targets journalists in Middle East, North Africa
Cyberscoop ↗
9 Apr 2026
Hack-for-hire spyware campaign targets journalists in Middle East, North Africa
Espionage for repression: forensic analysis of a cross-border hack-for-hire campaign targeting civil society in MENA
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Two prominent Egyptian journalists targeted with elaborate spearphishing campaign

9 Apr 2026
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Two prominent Egyptian journalists targeted with elaborate spearphishing campaign
The Record ↗
9 Apr 2026
Two prominent Egyptian journalists targeted with elaborate spearphishing campaign
Espionage for repression: forensic analysis of a cross-border hack-for-hire campaign targeting civil society in MENA
Surveillance
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Hack-for-hire group caught targeting Android devices and iCloud backups

9 Apr 2026
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Hack-for-hire group caught targeting Android devices and iCloud backups
Tech Crunch ↗
9 Apr 2026
Hack-for-hire group caught targeting Android devices and iCloud backups
Bodily harms: how AI and biometrics curtail human rights
Artificial Intelligence
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Israel’s Lebanon occupation, death penalty for Palestinians, and humanitarian AI: the cheat sheet

7 Apr 2026
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Israel’s Lebanon occupation, death penalty for Palestinians, and humanitarian AI: the cheat sheet
The New Humanitarian ↗
7 Apr 2026
Israel’s Lebanon occupation, death penalty for Palestinians, and humanitarian AI: the cheat sheet
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Iran’s internet shutdown proves we need to go beyond Starlink and VPNs — this tech could be the solution

1 Apr 2026
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Iran’s internet shutdown proves we need to go beyond Starlink and VPNs — this tech could be the solution
Tech Radar ↗
1 Apr 2026
Iran’s internet shutdown proves we need to go beyond Starlink and VPNs — this tech could be the solution
Syrian government
Internet Shutdowns
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Guerre en Ukraine : Coupures réfléchies, trafic ralenti, Telegram banni.. Comment Poutine verrouille Internet en Russie

26 Mar 2026
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Guerre en Ukraine : Coupures réfléchies, trafic ralenti, Telegram banni.. Comment Poutine verrouille Internet en Russie
20 Minutes ↗
26 Mar 2026
Guerre en Ukraine : Coupures réfléchies, trafic ralenti, Telegram banni.. Comment Poutine verrouille Internet en Russie
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‘My phone is a brick’: Russians scramble for information as data blocked

26 Mar 2026
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‘My phone is a brick’: Russians scramble for information as data blocked
Al Jazeera ↗
26 Mar 2026
‘My phone is a brick’: Russians scramble for information as data blocked
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Surveillance
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How selling to a repressive regime almost broke a tech firm

25 Mar 2026
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How selling to a repressive regime almost broke a tech firm
Bloomberg ↗
25 Mar 2026
How selling to a repressive regime almost broke a tech firm
Proceed with caution: Sandvine removed from U.S. Entity List
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DarkSword’s GitHub leak threatens to turn elite iPhone hacking into a tool for the masses

25 Mar 2026
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DarkSword’s GitHub leak threatens to turn elite iPhone hacking into a tool for the masses
Cyberscoop ↗
25 Mar 2026
DarkSword’s GitHub leak threatens to turn elite iPhone hacking into a tool for the masses
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Surveillance
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AI, surveillance & migration: inside Europe’s tech-driven border policies + the rise of renting apps

23 Mar 2026
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AI, surveillance & migration: inside Europe’s tech-driven border policies + the rise of renting apps
Somewhere on Earth ↗
23 Mar 2026
AI, surveillance & migration: inside Europe’s tech-driven border policies + the rise of renting apps
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Five years after coup, Myanmar’s digital authoritarianism enters new phase

13 Mar 2026
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Five years after coup, Myanmar’s digital authoritarianism enters new phase
Tech Policy Press ↗
13 Mar 2026
Five years after coup, Myanmar’s digital authoritarianism enters new phase
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IMEI နံပါတ်တွေ မှတ်ပုံတင်ခိုင်းတာ စစ်တပ်ရဲ့ စောင့်ကြည့်ရေး ယန္တရားဖြစ်နိုင်

6 Mar 2026
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IMEI နံပါတ်တွေ မှတ်ပုံတင်ခိုင်းတာ စစ်တပ်ရဲ့ စောင့်ကြည့်ရေး ယန္တရားဖြစ်နိုင်
DVB TV News ↗
6 Mar 2026
IMEI နံပါတ်တွေ မှတ်ပုံတင်ခိုင်းတာ စစ်တပ်ရဲ့ စောင့်ကြည့်ရေး ယန္တရားဖြစ်နိုင်
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Will NSO’s U.S. lobbying pay off under Trump?

4 Mar 2026
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Will NSO’s U.S. lobbying pay off under Trump?
Tech Policy Press ↗
4 Mar 2026
Will NSO’s U.S. lobbying pay off under Trump?
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How the EU is building a dystopian, surveillance-driven, deportation machine

4 Mar 2026
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How the EU is building a dystopian, surveillance-driven, deportation machine
4 Mar 2026
How the EU is building a dystopian, surveillance-driven, deportation machine