Alaa abd-el Fattah has a book called “You Have Not Yet Been Defeated” that is a collection of his letters from prison and some of his blogposts. In commemoration of his release in Cairo, his publisher @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social is making the e-book free. I cannot recommend it enough.

Without a shift in policy, the dominant trajectory of technology in immigration will continue to be digital surveillance. It doesn't have to be that way. Very glad to talk about our global research on technology and alternatives to detention on @techpolicypress.bsky.social.

This at least is good news www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/w...

NEW: For the last year, I have been closely working with the @idcoalition.bsky.social to research the use of technology in alternatives to detention. It is now a report, written with the @kaldorcentre.bsky.social and the Refugee Law Lab: idcoalition.org/wp-content/u... Patterns in this thread:

In Brazil, Big Tech firms maintain a robust lobbying apparatus that successfully fends off civil society groups and the federal government to protect their interests in Congress, write Sergio Spagnuolo, Juliana Dal Piva, Sofia Costa, and Alexandre Orrico. Data pulled from LinkedIn shows the scale:

🚨 Histórico: El Supremo obliga al Gobierno a entregar el código fuente de BOSCO, el programa que decide quién accede al bono social eléctrico. Una victoria tras 7 años de litigio. civio.es/novedades/20...

Pendant un an, avec @lemonde.fr @spiegel.de @thetimes.com @artefr.bsky.social, nous avons enquêté à Mayotte sur la manière dont la police arrête les #kwassas, ces petits bateaux qui tentent de rejoindre l’île Nous révélons l'utilisation de tactiques dont les conséquences peuvent être mortelles 🧵

REVEALED: French police have caused dozens of drownings by violently intercepting small boats trying to reach overseas territory Mayotte. Similar tactics are being proposed for the Channel, to try to stop people from reaching the UK.

[10/10] “[There is] high domestic demand [in 🇮🇹Italy] to investigate organised crime activities,” said @svaroschi.bsky.social. “This made the development of #surveillance tools profitable, & huge investments were made over the years, resulting in the creation of many companies in this sector.”

🚨🇪🇺 EU cash💰 and taxpayer money in countries such as 🇮🇹Italy and 🇪🇸Spain are flowing to commercial #spyware firms, yet this public funding is not well-known or analysed. 🧵My investigation for @ftm.eu. 👇👇👇 www.ftm.eu/articles/spy...

Last week I watched 3 overcrowded boats leave a French beach in as many hours Despite UK-funded police + equipment being out in full force, it wasn't possible to stop them w/o putting lives at risk Throwing more money at security + tougher tactics is futile www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

When Assad’s security state collapsed, locked doors opened, spilling decades of secrets. Among them: 100s of stolen children, hidden in orphanages & used to blackmail parents. We’ve done the deepest dive yet into this cruel system. Here’s what we found 🧵 www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

🌍 New report: From Surveillance to Empowerment Are digital technologies like GPS monitors really alternatives to detention? 🤔 📅 16 Sept | ⏱️ 18:30–19:30 CEST 📍 Geneva Graduate Institute / Online ✍️ Registration required (in-person & online). 🔗 Link: events.humanitix.com/from-surveil...

⚠️A new @cyberstatecraft.bsky.social report warns that the number of 🇺🇸US-based investors in #spyware has risen sharply in 2024, fuelling an opaque global market that is growing & evolving, & highlights new countries linked to the technology. My exclusive for @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/us-spy...

Nessuna trasparenza, né tutele per i diritti fondamentali: l'infrastruttura di sorveglianza europea si espande, guidata dall'ossessione della migrazione. Grazie a Lucrezia Tiberio per avermi intervistato per Altreconomia con @fabiochiusi.bsky.social e Alyna Smith altreconomia.it/lespansione-...

Looking forward to the launch of this report next 16 September in Geneva and online! For the past year, I have been working with the @idcoalition.bsky.social to research the use of technology in alternative to detention and immigration detention, in partnership with the @kaldorcentre.bsky.social

I had only read headlines of this and I was quite confused. Now I am catching up @ainowinstitute.bsky.social's AI Industrial Policy newsletter and read about this: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

“AI companies tend to follow a predictable playbook: hype the intelligence, hide the humans,” says Casilli. “For years, that meant downplaying the amount of data work that makes these systems possible. But now the playbook has evolved.”

"We employ the unemployable so be grateful you have a job." Great work by @marche.bsky.social on the hype behind "AI trainers" africauncensored.online/blog/2025/08...

It is clearly the case that asylum protests were smaller this weekend than the small over-hyped protests on August 8th, and smaller than in the second half of July. No broadcast outlet has accurately conveyed that + asked why: they have explicitly stated and inferred growing protests

Read my friend @jessimckenzi.bsky.social's feature on the social, political, and climate forces that keep Athens (and Greece) burning. And don't miss the behind-the-scenes in her outdoorsy newsletter (just back from hiatus) pinchofdirt.substack.com/p/burnout-pr...

"In some group therapy dressed up as a think piece, we canter through the bad types of work that clog up timetables, inboxes, as well as how organisations fritter away their potential influence." @anastasiabekt.bsky.social and Alex Chalmers www.chalmermagne.com/p/death-by-a...

Oggi è uscita una nuova puntata della serie #Srebrenica30 scritta da Christian Elia, una serie che nasce da una domanda: a cosa serve un anniversario? A ricordare, si, ma sopratutto a non dimenticare.

💥 💫 What does impact look like for journalism? How can journalism drive real change? 📣 Sep 4 | 4:00 PM CET 90 min online workshop. The session will be led by Ariadne Papagapitos (Impact Director) and Tessa Pang (Impact Editor) from Lighthouse Reports. Register at tinyurl.com/muc9vez9 #plupro

Technology, investments, ambition (and lack of questions): this informative and visually compelling work gets you into the boom of data centers and what it really means ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Over the past few months, @nataliedonback.bsky.social, Joana Ascensão and I have been investigating a widespread yet little-known practice in European elder care: the use of physical restraints in nursing homes — belts, straps, bed sheets, and side rails that restrict movement.

This looks exciting! Go work with @coricrider.com !

We can and must work in parallel. We can seed a tech economy that serves us better, open up chokepoints, and enforce to make our markets competitive. We’ve got exciting plans, and a growing bench of talent. Please share widely - and if it sounds like you, do apply! France: tinyurl.com/4ajpujtb

We see the next period as a make-or-break moment for Europe's tech sovereignty. Where can Europe build our own kit? What chokepoints must we break? How should we target enforcement? Europe has a long way to go, yes; but we also see huge demand for change. Germany: tinyurl.com/mrxwrf3k

Don’t want your phone to know where you’ve been? 🤫 We have a guide for that… privacyinternational.org/guide-step/5...

Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge

"The decision was announced on the same day that David Bolt, the chief inspector of borders and immigration, published a highly critical report into the haphazard way in which officials estimated the age of new arrivals."

We just translated a wave of our ICE coverage into Spanish. No paywall, no email signup necessary. From leaks about Palantir's work with ICE to ICE's new facial recognition app, we think there is a massive public interest in this info. Read why and support us here: www.404media.co/were-publish...

Data Centers Aren't the Future of American Prosperity- @tamigraph.bsky.social & @mwoluchem.bsky.social bust the myths of data centers: they don't massively increase jobs, they don't increase clean energy investment, and they don't benefit local communities! OH SNAP datasociety.net/library/data...

🌱 Oxford introduces water restrictions while becoming an AI Growth Zone. DCs scaling up to 500MW which could use millions of liters of water. While we welcome measures in drought scenarios, we need better urban and environmental policies for balancing digital infrastructure with planetary health.

For years Frontex gathered data and automatically passed it unlawfully to Europol. With @stavinoha.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we investigated how this dragnet scooped up thousands of people, migrants and EU activists. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

NEW VISUAL INVESTIGATION: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry Our analysis has identified a number of facilities housing hundreds more people than they are designed to hold. Lawyers and detainees told the FT people have been sleeping on the floor. 👉 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

Italian authorities waited 40 hours before issuing an emergency alert for a boat with around 80 people lost in the Mediterranean Sea after an initial sighting by Frontex. A passing charity rescue vessel came to their rescue days later, but says at least 60 people had died as a result.

Ya está aquí! Un adelanto del cartel del único Congreso del mundo dedicado 100% al periodismo de migraciones. Una edición centrada en la externalización de, con voces clave desde África, América y Europa. 📍 Únete a la mayor red de periodistas de migraciones del mundo. @porcausa.org #CongresoMérida

Al Parlamento europeo si discute come cambiare la legge sul favoreggiamento, inclusa nel “pacchetto anti-traffico”. La decisione impatta su tutti i casi simili ma può avere conseguenze anche per altri processi di favoreggiamento in cui sono coinvolte le ong. irpimedia.irpi.eu/corte-giusti...

Well, if someone’s going to create AI-generated avatars of Sudanese refugees (a solution in search of a problem; answer to a question refugees did not ask) it should be us… the good guys… with inexplicable AI budgets… while real funds for real refugees are slashed 🤷‍♀️

Enjoyed this conversation very much... @karenhao.bsky.social (author of Empire of AI) and @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social (co-authors of The AI Con) discuss how to challenge AI hype and tech industry power –– via @datasociety.bsky.social datasociety.net/events/chall...

🎉 Excited to see my article ‘Absent Tech: Data, Violence and (Non)Credibility at the EU Borders’ out in International Migration! Based on research from the ERC project 'Security Flows' @cearadau.bsky.social Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders. With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

NEW: an investigation reveals that Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's data with Europol. Frontex decided to label as “suspects” anyone mentioned during the "debriefing interviews" conducted at disembarkation points at EU’s borders. 🧵Why it matters wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Con @balkanizator.bsky.social y @stavinoha.bsky.social publico hoy esta investigación en @elpais.com acerca de las prácticas ilícitas de @frontex.bsky.social en la obtención y el manejo de datos personales de migrantes y activistas. elpais.com/internaciona...

Frontex transfirió durante años ilegalmente a Europol datos de migrantes y activistas elpais.com/internaciona...

Non solo Gaza. Come funziona l’occupazione della Cisgiordania? Leggi il nuovo pezzo della serie #TerraPromessa per scoprirlo ⬇️

New by @oliviasolon.bsky.social ( @bloomberg.com) and @tomasstatius.bsky.social ( @lighthousereports.com): a EU border control system - with biometric info on 1.7 million people - has extremely serious cybersecurity issues. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... This is why these stories are important: