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Extraterritorial coercion against exiles and diasporas from authoritarian states is now a global phenomenon. A recent report by Freedom House, investigating the scale and scope of transnational repression, details that since 2014 at least 31 origin countries have carried out assassinations, assaults, abductions and other attacks against victims in 79 host countries across the globe. Whether it is China persecuting former government officials and ethnic minorities, Saudi Arabia going after exiled journalists, or Rwanda kidnapping government critics – authoritarian rulers are increasingly ass...

Co-opting cybersecurity in Egypt Nesma Nasr, an Egyptian textile engineer, works on her computer at her home in Cairo, Egypt March 26, 2021. Picture taken March 26, 2021. REUTERS/Hanaa Habib Cybersecurity is a key area of contest for digitalized politics, especially in uncertain and turbulent situations. Nowhere is this more starkly illustrated than in states such as Egypt, where the period since the January 2011 revolution has seen several changes of government and the subsequent consolidation of executive power in the military, increasingly strict limits on free speech, and extensive violen...

The direction of AI development is not preordained. It can be altered to increase human productivity, create jobs and shared prosperity, and protect and bolster democratic freedoms—if we modify our approach. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not likely to make humans redundant. Nor will it create superintelligence anytime soon. But like it or not, AI technologies and intelligent systems will make huge advances in the next two decades—revolutionizing medicine, entertainment, and transport; transforming jobs and markets; enabling many new products and tools; and vastly increasing the amount o...

12 minute read 29 August 2016. Apple releases an update for iOS devices after Egyptian journalist Ahmed Mansoor was targeted with spyware made by the Israeli company NSO, Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto CPJ spoke to Perlroth about her reporting, and the implications of the growing trade in exploits and spyware for journalists around the world. This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 9 March 2021. The last time  New York Times cybersecurity journalist Nicole Perlroth spoke with Emirati activist Ahmed Mansoor in 2016, his passport had been taken and he had recently bee...

Countering cyber proliferation: Zeroing in on Access-as-a-Service Report by Winnona DeSombre, James Shires, JD Work, Robert Morgus, Patrick Howell O’Neill, Luca Allodi, and Trey Herr Executive summary The proliferation of offensive cyber capabilities (OCC)—the combination of tools; vulnerabilities; and skills, including technical, organizational, and individual capacities used to conduct offensive cyber operations—presents an expanding set of risks to states and challenges commitments to protect ...