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Privacy Scorecard Review 2024: Rwanda, Tanzania, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda
Deep Insights
Kampala: Unwanted Witness (2025), 117 pp.
"The evolving digital landscape across East Africa and beyond underscores the critical need for robust data protection and privacy frameworks. While countries like Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mauritius, and Zimbabwe have made significant progress in establishing legal and institutional mechanisms to sa
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Digitalisation, democracy and the GDPR: The efforts of DPAs to defend democratic principles despite the limitations of the GDPR
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 13 pp.
"This article discusses the perspectives of European Union (EU) / European Economic Area Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) on their role in protecting democratic rights and freedoms in digitalised societies. Data Protection Authorities, which are independent regulators, are responsible for implemen
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The Law of Global Digitality
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiii, 258 pp.
"The book compares six different areas of law that have been particularly exposed to global digitality, namely laws regulating consumer contracts, data protection, the media, fnancial markets, criminal activity and intellectual property law. Comparing how these very different areas of law have evolv
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Policy Brief: Nine Steps to Protect Our Data and Privacy in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Personal Data Protection Bill, 2021
Access Now (2022), 10 pp.
"This policy brief is an Access Now publication. It gives context about the Personal Data Protection Bill in the Parliament of Sri Lank, states the key areas of concerns in the present bill, and proposes nine (9) recommendations." (commbox)
Data Protection Laws in Northern Africa: Regulatory Approaches, Key Principles, Selected Documents
Beirut: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2022), 75 pp.
"This report provides an in-depth overview of the current state and trends of data protection regulation of seven North African countries – namely Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Libya, Sudan, and Tunisia. The st udy tackles regulatory approaches, key principles, and selected instruments. Fro
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Guidelines for Judicial Actors on Privacy and Data Protection
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 23 pp.
"These guidelines aim to provide a general framework for judicial actors to assess matters of privacy and data protection in the face of other rights, such as freedom of expression and the right to privacy. The document includes relevant case law from various national, international and regional bod
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Was heißt digitale Souveränität? Diskurse, Praktiken und Voraussetzungen »individueller« und »staatlicher Souveränität« im digitalen Zeitalter
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 320 pp.
"Die neuen sozio-technischen Verhältnisse der digitalen Transformation fordern neuzeitliche Konzepte des »souveränen Staates« und des »souveränen Subjekts« heraus, was in Debatten um »digitale Souveränität« problematisiert wird. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes diskutieren diese Herausford
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Towards the Evaluation of Socio-Digital ID Ecosystems in Africa: Comparative Analysis of Findings from Ten Country Case Studies
Centre for Internet and Society (CIS); Research ICT Africa (2021), 61 pp.
"Efforts to establish or improve national identification systems in Africa have coincided with the increasing deployment of mobile technology. This has led to the prioritisation of digital “solutions” for facilitating forms of identification and registration – often via biometric attributes [.
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Privacy and Personal Data Protection in Africa: A Rights-Based Survey of Legislation in Eight Countries
African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition (2021), 372 pp.
"Of the eight countries surveyed here, only four have comprehensive data protection privacy acts in place: Kenya, South Africa, Togo and Uganda. But as these research reports suggest, this is not necessarily a strong indicator of whether a country is committed to privacy rights, or of the efficacy o
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Exposed and Exploited: Data Protection in the Middle East and North Africa
Access Now (2021), 45 pp.
"In this report, we highlight how privacy and data protection violations by state and non-state actors are compounded by the lack of legal data protection safeguards which would obligate public entities, private companies, and international organizations to respect and adhere to data protection prin
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The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiv, 612 pp.
"This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the 'digital' is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in
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Regulating Data in India and Indonesia: A Comparative Study
Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2021), x, 109 pp.
We Need to Talk About Data: Framing the Debate Around Free Flow of Data and Data Sovereignty
Internet and Jurisdiction Policy Network (2021), 55 pp.
"On the one hand, “Free Flow of Data” is advocated by many as a critical enabler of digital transformation, innovation, economic growth and social benefits. At the same time, various concerns related to privacy, taxation, competition, security, and even the democratic process, have prompted poli
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Festín de datos: Empresas y datos personales en América Latina
Bogotá: Dejusticia (2020), 204 pp.
Data Feast: Enterprises and Personal Data in Latin America
Bogotá: Dejusticia (2020), 196 pp.
