Human Rights and Business
How Businesses Can Benefit from Investing in Privacy
Amidst increasing privacy concerns, businesses around the world, especially tech-oriented firms, are looking to make changes in their policies. Many businesses are investing in policies that are privacy-forward and help boost growth. Since the rise in privacy concerns has resulted in more companies building privacy security policies, large tech-oriented companies are also a part of […]
Sharing Economy and Human Rights
1.0 Introduction People have shared and collaborated from the commencement of civilization. Notwithstanding, the Internet’s emergence has heralded a new period of sharing because of the volume of activities as well as the new ways of doing these activities. According to Gomez‐Alvarez and & Morales‐Sánchez (2021), the sharing economy or collaborative economy has a turnover […]
Big Technology Companies and Freedom of Expression | Policy Paper
Introduction In the end of last year, specifically, during and in the aftermath of the US presidential elections, big technology companies censorship practices caught a wide and intense attention. This was especially true when Twitter suspended the account of the former president Donald Trump, after his tweets questioned the integrity of the voting process, claiming […]
NSO isn’t the Only One: Candiru, an Israeli Company Offering Spyware Systems for Oppressive Regimes
Throughout the last few days, Arab and international media outlets have run stories of a new leak concerning NSO Group, one of the most well known Israeli companies active in the fields of surveillance and spying. NSO develops Pegasos, one of the most well known tools used by oppressive governments and regimes for spying on […]
Sandvine … the surveillance octopus in the Arab region
Introduction Partnership and business agreements between Arab governments and corporates on the one hand, and foreign companies working in the internet and communication surveillance industry (software/hardware) on the other, is currently witnessing an increase in rate and scale. The aim is to manipulate the flow of information, restrain freedom of expression, and control internet and […]
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