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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source: Getty Summary:  An Israeli company has sold military-grade surveillance spyware to governments that are using it to spy on private citizens. What can the United States do about the explosion of such snooping? Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! The Washington Post has started running an investigative series, called the Pegasus Project, that describes the expanded use of digital surveillance by g...

Steven Feldstein is a Senior Fellow of Democracy, Conflict and Governance at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C. The former Boise State University professor has a new book out titled “The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology Is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance.”

Biden redraws battle lines in the tech war with China President Joe Bidens administration has put his predecessors assault on Chinese tech on ice 14 May 2021 • 12:00pm As the elevator ascended the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, James Lewis’s guides offered word of advice. “You know, the Chinese built this building,” the former US diplomat remembers them saying, “so when you speak, speak clearly into the wall”. It was December 2019, about two years after...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace April 29, 2021 Live Online Rapid innovation in digital technology has ushered in a new era of political repression. Regimes seek novel ways to control, manipulate, surveil, and disrupt real or perceived internal threats. Research from Thailand, the Philippines, and Ethiopia shows just how far governments will go to maintain political power. As we witness the increased deployment of digital tools by repressive leaders and their agents, what are the impl...