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Jessica Brandt provides the seventh chapter to Global Policy's e-book on 'Digital Repression: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses'. The e-book's chapters will be serialised on Global Policy over the course of 2023. Please find the other chapters here.
When a new technology comes along, it's easy to see its liberating potential. But as current protests in Iran show, those same digital tools for organizing and communicating, can also be used for surveillance and suppression.
Smart Cities and Democratic Vulnerabilities highlights three essays that survey the dangers smart cities present to democracy, explaining the importance of…
The authorities have passed a raft of legislations and are deploying the state machinery to go after people who have criticised the government on social media.
“There is little doubt that technology is unleashing fundamental changes in society and reshaping the relationship between citizen and state.”