The De|Center is a digital rights research group focused on community-based research, corporate accountability and technology design interventions against harms from surveillance and emerging tech. Its newsletter offers in-depth spotlight pieces, expert interviews and organizational statements on topics like carceral technology, authoritarianism and international law.
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netzpolitik.org reports on digital rights, surveillance, data protection and internet regulation in Germany and Europe, combining original investigations, interviews and policy analysis. Readers get in-depth coverage of how politics shapes the internet and how the internet changes politics.
Internet Exchange publishes essays and analysis on digital rights, internet governance and tech policy from a feminist and social justice perspective, often by guest authors from research and advocacy organisations. Recent issues cover global encryption laws and critical studies of digital public infrastructure in Brazil and India.
A weekly brief and monthly reports from Human Rights in China covering human rights developments in China, Hong Kong and Tibet, including political prisoners, transnational repression and digital rights. Issues combine news roundups with in-depth analysis and organizational statements, with some content in Chinese.
Philosophical essays that examine digital tools, AI naming, open versus closed software and graphical interfaces through history, philosophy and concrete technical examples. Readers get a critical, argued perspective on how software design shapes human thinking and autonomy.
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