Maria Farrell // March 20, 2020 With security risks and data-leaks, why do some serving soldiers bring smartphones on deployment, and how do countries differ? Credit: US Army/Flickr A few years ago, my husband deployed to Afghanistan where the British Army had categorically banned all soldiers from using their phones. He called once a week at most, […]
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United States and UK Weigh Deploying Tracking Technology
While Israeli officials announced they were already using anti-terror tech to counter the virus, policy makers in the United States and the UK have been weighing the deployment of tracking technology to monitor and control the spread of the coronavirus. In the United States, the technologies under consideration include geolocation tracking, facial recognition, and social media account scraping aimed […]
After Access: A demand-side view of mobile internet from 10 African countries
New report: After Access 2018- A demand-side view of mobile internet from 10 African countries by Alison Gillwald andOnkokame Mothobi. 16 May 2019 The After Access survey – long made possible through the support of the Canadian International Development Research Council (IDRC) and in 2018 by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) – and conducted by DIRSI […]