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• Digitale Rechte in Chiles neuer Verfassung
• Digitale Auweise & Datenschutz in Staaten am persischen Golf
• Interview mit Professor Tobias Hagmann zu Daten in Somalia

Chile

DW: Tote bei Protesten in Chile

taz: Weg frei für neue Verfassung

DW: Was die neue Verfassung Chile bringen - und nehmen - könnte

teleSURtv.net: Propuestas para la nueva Constitución de Chile

Convención Constitutional: Pleno Citaciones Acta

bbcl: Una Constitución para Chile

elciudadano.com: Presentan proyecto de norma constitucional para consagrar derechos digitales y protección de datos en la nueva Carta Magna

Golfstaaten

SMEX: The Digital ID Landscape in the GCC: A Mapping of Programs, Regulations, and Human Rights Risks

Somalia

Somali Public Agenda: Who owns data in Somalia? Ending the country’s privatised knowledge economy

Roskilde University: Tobias Hagmann

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• Shutdowns & Sperren in Zentralasien
• Gründerin verkauft nigerianisches Unternehmen für Internetkabel
• Die Rolle chinesischer Firmen beim 5G-Bau in Zypern

Sixth Tone: Weibo Shuts Down User Accounts for ‘Gender Opposition’

Sixth Tone: Hygiene Product Donation Drive Puts Frontline Females First

Sixth Tone: Netizen Outrage Sparks Sexual Harassment Investigation

雷斯林: 她们为什么对墨茶打拳

China Central Television: 西安发布关于对“地铁保安拖拽女乘客”调查处理的通报

Access Now: What Turkmenistan internet shutdowns tell us about digital repression in Central Asia

Eurasianet: Standoff in eastern Tajikistan ends peacefully

Eurasianet: Tajikistan: Testy demonstrations in the Pamirs drag into third day

Asia-Plus: Lack of Internet access causes serious problems for residents of GBAO

Eurasianet: Uzbekistan: Outraged netizens win partial victory over social media blocks

Turkmen.news: Цифровое усиление. В Туркменистане более недели не работают сервисы VPN

Quartz Africa: A founder who’s been pivotal to the Nigerian startup scene will sell her company for $320 million

TechCrunch: MainOne CEO Funke Opeke says Equinix is buying her company for the right price

Arise News: Funke Opeke, Judith Gardiner Throw Light on Equinix Acquisition of MainOne

Balkan Insights: Data Dominance: In Cyprus, a Chinese Outpost inside the EU

Al Jazeera: The Cyprus Papers Undercover

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• Gesichtserkennung in Macau
• Huawei-Middleboxes und wofür sie genutzt werden
• Datenschutz in Uganda

Fairwork Foundation: Out now! First round of fairness ratings for the Ghanaian platform economy

Biometric Update: Macau expands facial recognition on surveillance system used in one-third of investigations

Biometric Update: Macau to collect biometric data from all visitors to fight identity fraud

Biometric Update: Facial recognition systems for police advance in Dubai, Macau, but not Birmingham, AL

Macau Business: ‘Eyes in the Sky’ surveillance system used in more than a third of criminal investigations – Secretary for Security

GGRAsia: Macau govt wants to gather visitor biometric, hotel info

Committee to Protect Journalists: How China’s Huawei technology is being used to censor news halfway across the world

Top10VPN: China's Surveillance State: A Global Project

Unwanted Witness: Privacy Scorecard Report 2021

Unwanted Witness: Trading Privacy For Cheap Transport System

National Information Technology Authority Uganda: Investigation report

Privacy International: A win for Unwanted Witness: Uganda’s data protection authority finds ride sharing app unlawfully disclosed personal data to third parties

techcabal: Are Ugandan telcos equipped to protect user data?

Quartz Africa: Uganda’s banks have been plunged into chaos by a mobile money fraud hack

PML Daily: Billions go missing as hackers break into mobile money system; Airtel, MTN, Stanbic, and several financial institutions affected

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• Verschwindende Zeitungsartikel in Kaschmir
• Community-Netzwerke in Namibia
• Eine Excel-Funktion des türkischen Militärs

Observacom: Brasil: Coalición Derechos en la Red apoya proyecto de ley que obliga a transparencia y debido proceso a plataformas digitales

Electronic Frontier Foundation: Brazil’s Fake News Bill: Perils and Flaws of Expanding Existent Data Retention Obligations

veja: ONG pede urgência em votação do PL das Fake News na Câmara

teletime: Novo relatório do PL das Fake News garante composição multissetorial do CGI

telesintese: Orlando Silva faz alterações na proposta do PL das Fake News

Coda Story: Kashmir’s vanishing newspaper archives

Association for Progressive Communications: Connecting the Unconnected: Supporting community networks and other community-based connectivity initiatives

Association for Progressive Communications: Seeding change: Creating a digital community network with the Ju|’hoan people in Namibia

Association for Progressive Communications: Kenya adopts community networks licensing framework

OpenNet Africa: Bridging Africa’s Digital Divide: The Rise of Community Internet

Nicola J. Bildwell, Masbulele Jay Siya: Situating Asynchronous Voice in Rural Africa

Statewatch: Algorithmic persecution in Turkey’s post-coup crackdown: The FETÖ-Meter system

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• 50% des Facebook-Messenger Traffics kommt aus Kambodscha
• Roaminggebühren und Cloud-Training in Kamerun
• Mailchimp sperrte vorübergehend kubanische Medienaccounts

Nikkei Asia: Philippines cracks down on 'text blaster' sales as election looms

Business Mirror: Comelec bans online microtargeting of voters in 2022 elections

Manila Bulletin: Academics launch network vs disinformation, fraud amid election season

Inquirer.net: Educators to fact-check candidates and supporters, flaf revisionists

Rest of World: Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia. Here’s why

Khmer Times: PM Hun Sen expresses his annoyance over his leaked voice message

Datareportal: Digital 2021 Cambodia

Asiafoundation.org: Mobile Phones and Internet Use in Cambodia 2016

Osiris: Présente à la réunion des Régulateurs télécoms à Douala, l’ARPCE s’engage aussi à supprimer les tarifs de roaming en zone CEMAC

Agence d'Information d'Afrique centrale: Téléphonie mobile : les opérateurs congolais tenus de supprimer des frais de roaming

Digital Business: Alphonse Nafack : « J’ai fait en sorte que le Cameroun soit le premier pays africain à signer un partenariat avec Google »

Tech_HQ: Beware the one-way street of Big Cloud training

Rest of World: Mailchimp temporarily banned Cuban media outlets

Internet Archive: Mailchimp Terms of Use

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• Und Desinformation in Kenia
• Keine Twitter-Trends und noch kein zweiter Internet-Anbieter in Äthiopien
• Chile beteiligt Bürger*innen bei Strategie für Künstliche Intelligenz

Association for Progressive Communications: Of social discipline and control: The impact of fake news and disinformation on minorities in Indonesia

Global Voices: Behind the success of the Kenyan Twitter disinformation campaign to discredit the Pandora Papers

BBC: Pandora Papers: Uhuru Kenyatta family's secret assets exposed by leak

africanews: Did Kenya's press go mute after Pandora exposé on Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta?

Quartz Africa: Twitter and Facebook are getting caught up in Ethiopia’s conflict

Developing Telecoms: Safaricom employee exit adds to Ethiopian telecoms uncertainty

Developing Telecoms: Second attempt to sell second licence begins in Ethiopia

Developing Telecoms: Partial privatisation of Ethio Telecom gets under way

emol: Presentan primera política de Inteligencia Artificial: Busca impulsar y beneficiar el desarrollo sostenible

Derechos Digitales: La política nacional de Inteligencia Artificial chilena y su proceso de participación ciudadana

Derechos Digitales: Consideraciones críticas sobre el borrador de la Política Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial

Chilenisches Wissenschaftsministerium: Consulta Pública de Inteligencia Artificial

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• Bangladesch arbeitet an Datenschutzgesetz
• Iran organisiert Verwaltung des Internets neu
• Internet-Shutdown im Sudan

Pakistan Press Foundation: The Islamabad High Court terms TikTok ban as violation of constitutional rights

Digital Rights Monitor: Ban on TikTok is apparently a violation of constitutional law, says Islamabad High Court

Dawn: PTA again blocks TikTok, says action taken over failure to remove 'inappropriate content'

Pakistan Press Foundation: Information Technology Ministry notifies rules to regulate social media platforms

Global Voices: Bangladesh’s upcoming Data Protection Act may suppress, not protect, citizens rights

UNB: Draft of data privacy and localization law is prepared: Palak

The Daily Star: With a new data protection act on the cards, time for a reality check

New Age: TIB concerned over draft law to protect personal data

Peivast: طرح صیانت مدیریت ورود اینترنت را از وزارت ارتباطات به ستاد کل نیروهای مسلح می‌دهد

Peivast: طرح صیانت، وزارت ارتباطات و سازمان تنظیم مقررات را بی‌‌اختیار می‌کند

Peivast: طرح صیانت مدیریت ورود اینترنت را از وزارت ارتباطات به ستاد کل نیروهای مسلح می‌دهد

Peivast: رضا تقی‌پور رئیس کمیسیون مشترک بررسی طرح صیانت شد

Netblocks: Internet disrupted in Sudan amid reports of coup attempt

Quartz: Sudan shuts down the internet after a military coup

Middle East Eye: Sudan coup 2021: Internet 'severely disrupted' after military takeover

DFR Lab: Sudanese Facebook network promoting paramilitary group removed month before coup

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• Fehlender Datenschutz bei digitalem Ausweis in Kenia
• Bezahlter Menstruationsurlaub für Gig-Arbeiterinnen in Indien
• Welche Länder Signal sperren

Derechos Digitales: No bombardeen Buenos Aires: reconocimiento facial en CABA hoy

Fundación Vía Libre: Vía libre se presenta como amigo del tribunal contra el reconocimiento facial en Buenos Aires

Business Daily: High Court declares Huduma Namba illegal 

The Standard: Courts declare Huduma Namba invalid

Medianama: Landmark ruling finds Kenya’s government illegally rolled out Aadhaar-like biometric ID

techweez: Huduma Number Ruled lllegal, This Is What Should Be Done

Biometric Update: Kenya’s Huduma Namba digital ID scheme could exclude millions of citizens, Forum warns

Medianama: Swiggy will give female delivery workers paid period time-off, but gig workers still have little flexibility

New Indian Express: Swiggy introduces two-day paid monthly period time-off policy for female delivery partners

Trak.in: Swiggy Gives 2-Day Paid Period Leave To Female Delivery Partners Every Month

OONI: How countries attempt to block Signal Private Messenger App around the world

Al Jazeera: Iran blocks Signal messaging app after WhatsApp exodus

NBC: Encrypted messaging app Signal blocked in China

NBC: As Cubans protest, government cracks down on internet access and messaging apps

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• Phishing-Angriff auf Menschenrechtler in Togo
• Wem gehören Daten in Somalia?
• Griechische Lieferfahrer*innen verhindern Scheinselbstständigkeit
• Phishing-Angriff auf Menschenrechtler in Togo
• Wem gehören Daten in Somalia?
• Griechische Lieferfahrer*innen verhindern Scheinselbstständigkeit

Medianama: Urban Company cedes some ground to workers pushing for better pay and working conditions

All India Gig Workers Union: On the issues and demands of Urban Company Partners in Delhi NCR

Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers: Press Release

Urban Company: Empowering Service Partners to become Micro-Entrepreneurs

Economic Times: Urban Company, hit by protests, promises to enhance partners’ earnings

NDTV: Urban Company Hikes Service Prices, Cuts Commissions To Improve Partner Earnings

Amnesty International: Togo: Hackers-for-hire in West Africa: Activist in Togo attacked with Indian-made spyware

OpenNet Africa: Togo: Prominent Activist Targeted With Indian-made Spyware Linked to Notorious Hacker Group

OSIRIS: Togo : Des cybermercenaires ont tenté d’espionner un défenseur des droits humains, selon Amnesty

Data Rights Africa: Digital data in Somalia: capture, usage, and protection

Somali Public Agenda: Who owns data in Somalia? Ending the country’s privatised knowledge economy

PRIN: A victorious workers’ struggle in Greece

PRIN: E-food: Κόκκινο ποτάμι πλημμύρισε την Αθήνα (φωτό-βίντεο)

Greek Reporter: Greek Delivery Giant Efood Faces Major Backlash Over Worker’s Rights

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• Nigerias Twitter-Sperre könnte bald vorbei sein, mal wieder
• Russland will seine Jugend schützen
• Partei in Rumänien betreibt Fake-Nachrichtenseiten

R3D: Consejo Asesor de Facebook ordena a la red social restaurar un vídeo con insultos al presidente de Colombia

Hiperderecho: Normas comunitarias e interés público: ¿qué ha dicho el Consejo Asesor de Contenido de Facebook?

R3D: Instagram atribuye eliminación de publicaciones sobre protestas en Colombia a fallo en actualización

Sahara Reporters: Twitter Has Apologised To Buhari Regime With A Promise To Follow Orders – Attorney-General Tells Court

TechCabal: Nigeria’s President gives conditions to be met before lifting Twitter ban

Sahara Reporters: Group Rejects Conditional Lifting Of Twitter Ban By Buhari

Sahara Reporters: Breaking: Buhari Orders Conditional Lifting Of Twitter Ban

Netblocks: Cost of Shutdown Tool

Sahara Reporters: ECOWAS Court Adjourns Judgment On Nigeria's Twitter Ban To January 2022

Punch: Ban a win-win for Nigeria and Twitter, says presidential aide

The Moscow Times: Russia Develops Tech for Monitoring 'Deviant' Behavior

The Moscow Times: Rare Campus Massacre Shakes Russian City

RT: Inspiration for Perm massacre? Music of rapper Morgenshtern encourages teenagers to ‘commit violent acts,’ Russian official claimsiolent Acts

Balkan Insight: In ‘Echo-Chambers’ of Nationalist Romanian Party, Russia’s Favourite Narratives

recorder: Cum a ajuns AUR a patra forță politică din România

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