Category Digital Authoritarianism

News and hard-hitting, insightful, thoughtful, evidence-based, provocative, and progressive analysis of burgeoning digital authoritarianism in Canada and around the world.

Government surveillance erodes “our dignity and the things that make us human,” says Edward Snowden

National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden urges us to continue defending our digital rights in the face of burgeoning digital authoritarianism at home and beyond, because mass government surveillance "robs us of private space, eroding our dignity and the things that make us human."

Obert Madondo
December 31, 2020

Surveillance capitalism threatens Canadians’ “ability to think, act and resist”

Meagan Bell argues that surveillance capitalism, the data-driven business model driving Google, Facebook and other Internet companies, weakens Canadians' ability to defend democracy, human rights and the human future.

The Canadian Progressive
May 17, 2019

Bell-led FairPlay Canada “proposal would weaken Canada’s economy”, says Internet infrastructure coalition

A global coalition of Internet infrastructure companies opposes the Bell Canada-led FairPlay Canada plan to block websites on the ground that the plan, which "lacks accountability and oversight", would weaken both the Canadian economy and our Internet leadership globally.

Obert Madondo
March 29, 2018

Edward Snowden creates Haven, a security app for journalists and human rights defenders

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and his team at the Freedom of the Press Foundation have created Haven, a free and open source personal security system for journalists and human rights defenders. The app transforms your cheap second Android phone into a device capable of capturing and reporting intrusions to your physical space and possessions.

Obert Madondo
December 23, 2017

The Mouse That Roared: Imagining an internet safe haven for journalists, whistleblowers and activists in Iceland

The Mouse That Roared, a doc starring Icelandic MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir, imagines an Internet safe haven for journalists, whistleblowers and activists in Iceland.

Obert Madondo
September 21, 2012