It’s been half a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. And while millions of people have fled the country, there are still many who remain living in different regions of Ukraine. In this episode, we will have a closer look at the digital rights ch

Content Moderation: To Keep or to Delete? - RightsCon Live Recording

Jul 7th, 2022 49m 13s

In this live recording of our Podcast "Digital Rights Explored: Local Fights, Global Perspectives," we talked about content moderation by social media platforms taking a wrong turn. From their initial hands-off approach when it came to content,

Cybercrime - Nowhere to hide

May 31st, 2022 32m 45s

Being online means being at risk. This episode is dedicated to a problem affecting us all, worldwide - cybercrime. We travel to Kenya where cybercrime is on a steep rise. There has been a 37.3 % jump in cyber criminal activities in Kenya betwe

The Metaverse: A Witness from the Future

Mar 23rd, 2022 30m 14s

In this episode we talk about the biggest hype of our time when it comes to our digital lives: the Metaverse. Ever since Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement of what his company Meta is developing, everyone in the digital rights community is t

2021: Three of the Biggest Digital Rights Stories in Retrospect

Feb 3rd, 2022 31m 19s

Some of you listeners have asked us to explain the basics of digital rights, “what type of rights are there exactly”? Our response is this special episode of Digital Rights Explored where international experts talk with us about the major digit

IGF Live Podcast - Internet for All, but Privacy for Me

Dec 20th, 2021 54m 58s

As people get online, they are encouraged or even forced to share significant amounts of personal information. What happens when this data is collated? And what happens when this data gets into the wrong hands? This can have very real effects o

State Surveillance in the Age of Covid

Oct 7th, 2021 26m 52s

In the face of the global pandemic, many countries have imposed different control measures on their citizens under the veil of curbing the further spread of the virus. In this episode we will discuss with Agnes Venema - an expert on national se

Addicted to Digital Love

Aug 11th, 2021 27m 19s

The founder of Tinder said: “Nobody joins Tinder because they’re looking for something.” “They join because they want to have fun. It doesn’t even matter if you match because swiping is so fun.” However in this episode we have examined how dati

Digital Censorship on Social Media Platforms

Jun 15th, 2021 26m 44s

In this episode we talk about digital censorship of independent and critical voices on major social media platforms. This is a contradictory circumstance since it is exactly these platforms that serve, in particular in countries with oppressive

Smartphone Divide

Apr 28th, 2021 23m 8s

In this episode we explore the topic of the smartphone divide in Namibia amongst its youth. In Namibia, smartphones are the main entry point to the Internet for young people. The country officially has an excess of smartphones per capita. Yet t

Digital Security: Threats & Activism

Feb 17th, 2021 22m 30s

Across Latin America, Indigenous human rights defenders have been targeted by enemies who wish to see them silenced because of their work. According to the Colombian non-governmental organization, Indepaz, 269 Indigenous leaders have been murde

Internet Shutdowns

Jan 5th, 2021 24m 44s

In Kashmir (India) citizens suffered the high-handedness of the government with the longest imposed Internet shutdown of 213 days, just before entering into Covid-19 time. Mir Basit Hussain, a journalist and the initiator of the first digital

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