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The module centres around the 15 Feminist Principles of the Internet 1 that were developed by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and a group of international activists, researchers and scholars at a Global Meeting on Gender, Sexuality and the
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Privacy International has prepared introduction articles and videos to explain the basic concepts behind big data and data protection: What does ‘Big Data’ have to do with privacy? How does law enforcement intercept my phone calls? How does internet monitoring
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This briefing, published on the two-year anniversary of the publication of the first Snowden revelations, warns that governments are looking to maintain and expand mass surveillance, despite the practice being condemned as a human rights violation by courts, parliaments and
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This report is the result of a collaboration between Privacy International, ARTICLE 19, and the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) at Harvard Law School. IHRC conducted desk research as well as interviews with individuals working in civil society organisations in the
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By Soraya Chemaly | October 30, 2013 Source: Women’s Media Center Last Saturday, thousands gathered in Washington, DC, for a “Stop Watching Us” anti-surveillance rally. People are legitimately worried about the NSA reading our texts, chats, and emails, listening in
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Privacy International has prepared introduction articles and videos to explain the basic concepts behind privacy and surveillance: What does ‘Big Data’ have to do with privacy? How does law enforcement intercept my phone calls? How does internet monitoring work? What
International Women’s Day: How surveillance is used to assert control
Source: Privacy International Authors: Claire Lauterbach Date: 6 March 2015 This Sunday is International Women’s Day. You could celebrate the considerable progress in legislating for women’s equal rights. You could join a protest against political and legal inequality, discrepancies in
Global Conference on CyberSpace 2015 Webinar #7 Privacy
Webinar on privacy on the road to the Global Conference on Cyberspace 2015 in The Hague. With Andrew Puddephatt, Global Partners Digital.
A cyber security agenda for civil society: what is at stake?
By Alex Comninos (APC), April 2013 The security of digital networks and of networked digital information is increasingly important to stakeholders in governments, the private sector and civil society. This paper introduces some important conceptual issues in cyber security; investigates