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🥁🥁 it’s here, and I’m amazed! 🥁🥁 My first book, Unfair ID, launches today with SAGE Publications. It is dedicated to all sufferers of harmful outcomes of digital identity, and imagines routes to overcoming #digitalID unfairness. us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/unfa… #UnfairID #datajustice

Sweden and Norway are realising that their cashless systems are vulnerable to Russian cyberattacks, and so are back to encouraging the use of cash. theguardian.com/world/2024/oct… In other news: the push for DPI around the world continues regardless.

📢 New tech research 📢 We uncover the harms of the UK Home Office’s latest migration surveillance tools: privacyinternational.org/long-read/5457…

In collaboration with Just Futures Law EPIC published a break down of how data brokers harm immigrants & circumvent due process. This is part of EPIC's ongoing series of resources about the @CFPB's Fair Credit Reporting Act rulemaking process & data brokers epic.org/documents/how-…

🚨New study alert!🚨 We dive into the complex journeys of #migrants travelling from #Libya to #Malta along the #CentralMediterraneanRoute, detailing the series of routine steps and harms on their journeys. Read here (open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

It happened during a flight from Amsterdam, it happened that Azadeh Akbari (Uni Twente) texted me “our book is out!” It was one of the most beautiful moments I have ever lived. Thanks all amazing contributors that made Critical ICT4D possible. New book 👉👉 taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/… 📚💛

This is one of those stories where much deeper-lying problems manifest as AI 'bias' -- Concerns about 'fraud' can only arise in an already-punitive welfare system obsessed with targeting 'deserving' recipients of aid. theguardian.com/society/2024/d…

Tracing the infrastructure of AI to mines, chip factories, data centers, and e-waste dumps, our video of the week unveils the environmental harms of the supply chain capitalism data centers. Feat. Ana Valdivia at Oxford Internet Institute buff.ly/4fXKlw5

A surprise visit from Santa made a lot of refugee kids in our community very happy this year, with presents for everyone!! All year round we bring joy and safety to our community, from creative work to support through the asylum system and housing those facing homelessness.

🎙️ A bumper episode in the Under Surveillance podcast from ANSUR (The Anthropology of Surveillance Network) The 2024 World Anthropological Union (World Anthropological Union (WAU)) Webinar discusses Anthropology and Surveillance 🕵️🔎📷📹 🎧 Listen here ⤵️ buff.ly/3OYdKdC

Please join me, Yussuf Bashir (Haki na Sheria), Laura Bingham (Temple U. Institute for Law, Innovation & Technology), & Nora Naji this Wed, 15th, 2pm GMT as we discuss digital ID, humanitarian tech, & the identification challenges facing migrants/refugees shorturl.at/yYtIh

Really excited for this event on Fictions of Financialization at SOAS w/ IIPPE in a few weeks. Come by if you’re around London!

What's development aid got to do with geopolitics? Quite a lot, as our Research Associate Jack Taggart explains. The end of USAID has captured headlines, read about the long decline of development aid here: secondcoldwarobservatory.com/dispatch-2025-2

Last week, the new owners of the Observer wrote to tell me they would *not* be issuing me with a new contract. So...I want to say publicly that it was an absolute privilege to speak on behalf of my Observer colleagues during our strike. I don't regret doing so. And I learned so

Silicon Valley's turn towards 'technofascism' "isn't a blip or an anomaly. It’s a crescendo of forces central to the tech industry, and the current wave of rightwing tech titans are building on Silicon Valley’s foundations" not disrupting them Becca Lewis theguardian.com/technology/ng-…

Looking forward to hosting Marie Kolling (DIIS Denmark) at Digital Humanities 🐘 @[email protected] 26 Mar 6:30pm for her talk on illicit digital economies, based on ethnographic research. 'In debt from money-never-spent: financial fraud and scams in Brazil' Find out more: tickettailor.com/events/digital…

Indigo Rumbelow: 'We do not remember the shopkeepers who could not open their stores on Oxford Street after the suffragettes had smashed their windows, or the people who could not watch rugby matches as anti-apartheid demonstrators stormed the pitch.' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/ice…

Proud to announce the launch of our report on the challenges that refugees/migrants in Kenya face accessing state-issued identification, generously funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and co-produced w/ Haki na Sheria w/ support from Caribou Digital cariboudigital.net/publication/in…