by Saskia Rowley | May 4, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights, Digital Justice
Is it any wonder people are in thrall to the power and vicarious thrill of digital technologies when many acclaimed films and TV series extol the apparent virtues of digital surveillance. At the same time, they fear that State surveillance has gone too far. A swift AI...
by Terri Miller | Mar 23, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights
We see daily examples of pressures on press freedom in countries around the globe. Then there is a particularly chilling moment when such pressure becomes an overt threat from one of the oldest democracies in the world, in which freedom of speech is enshrined as the...
by Saskia Rowley | Mar 9, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights, Digital Justice
Reuters recently reported that US diplomats worldwide have been ordered to track and counter data localization efforts, naming the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as an example of “unnecessarily burdensome” regulation. According to Reuters,...
by Saskia Rowley | Feb 9, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights, Digital Justice
According to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, social media platforms have become a “toxic, unpunished world” that “children were never meant to navigate alone.” This sharp critique, delivered at the World Governments Summit in Dubai on 4 February, reflects...
by Saskia Rowley | Jan 26, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights, Digital Justice
Recent headlines I read run from the latest attempts by Donald Trump to own Greenland to Taylor Swift becoming the second–youngest ever inductee to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. There doesn’t seem to be a connection, but there is – digital technology. Whether it’s the...
by Saskia Rowley | Jan 12, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights
Germany’s far-right political party Alternative für Deutschland recently relaunched a youth wing called Generation Deutschland. One of its posters portrays a young blond Aryan woman instantly recalling – for those who have not forgotten 20th century European history –...
