by Terri Miller | Jun 15, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights
The FIFA World Cup has kicked off across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. This year’s tournament is the largest edition in history, with 48 teams, 104 matches, and billions of people watching. For over a month, people around the world will be glued to their...
by Terri Miller | Jun 3, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights, Digital Justice
“The pervasive technocratic paradigm in which we are immersed, and that is amplified by the digital revolution and AI, threatens to normalize an anti-human vision. In that vision, the fullness of life is equated with having more, reducing weakness, eliminating...
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...
