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Surveilling Europe’s edges: detention centres as a blueprint for mass surveillance

2 Oct 2024

In the third and final part of her blog series, Caterina Rodelli examines how EU migration policies and detention practices on the island of Samos are strengthening the EU’s wider, permanent mass surveillance infrastructure.

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Surveilling Europe’s edges: detention centres as a blueprint for mass surveillance
2 Oct 2024
Surveilling Europe’s edges: detention centres as a blueprint for mass surveillance
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Surveilling Europe’s edges: when research legitimises border violence

25 Sep 2024

In the second part of her blog series, Caterina Rodelli explains how EU-funded research projects on border surveillance are legitimising violent migration policies in Greece.

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Surveilling Europe’s edges: when research legitimises border violence
25 Sep 2024
Surveilling Europe’s edges: when research legitimises border violence
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Surveilling Europe’s edges: when digitalisation means dehumanisation

18 Sep 2024

In the first of a three-part blog series, Caterina Rodelli explains how digital surveillance is dehumanising people at Europe’s borders.

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Surveilling Europe’s edges: when digitalisation means dehumanisation
18 Sep 2024
Surveilling Europe’s edges: when digitalisation means dehumanisation
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Australien will internierten Geflüchteten Handys wegnehmen

3 Sep 2020
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Australien will internierten Geflüchteten Handys wegnehmen
3 Sep 2020
Australien will internierten Geflüchteten Handys wegnehmen
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Snatching away a lifeline: Australia cannot deny asylum seekers mobile phone access

1 Sep 2020

Lawmakers must reject a bill to give the Australian Border Force the right to confiscate mobile phones — a lifeline of information, communication, and documentation — from asylum seekers in Australian immigration detention.

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Snatching away a lifeline: Australia cannot deny asylum seekers mobile phone access
1 Sep 2020
Snatching away a lifeline: Australia cannot deny asylum seekers mobile phone access
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Why what happens on the little island of Nauru should matter to the whole world

21 May 2015

The island nation of Nauru may be tiny — only 21 square kilometers (8.5 square miles) — but what is happening there should reverberate around the world. Over the past few weeks, the government of Nauru has imposed an internet shutdown, blocking people from using certain sites on the pretext of protecting them from online pornography. At the same time, it has passed a dangerous new provision in its criminal code that could restrict free expression. These developments are putting people who care about human rights on high alert.

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Why what happens on the little island of Nauru should matter to the whole world
21 May 2015
Why what happens on the little island of Nauru should matter to the whole world