Our submission identifies some key trends, with examples, responding to some of the questions posed in the call for submission. Including:
- Digital communications:
- SOCMINT
- Technology-facilitated attacks on social media platforms and digital communications
- Specific risks faced by women human rights defenders (HRDs) and HRDs from groups affected by marginalisation and discrimination on online platforms and communications services
- Digital restrictions to privacy:
- IMSI catchers
- Spyware
- Mobile phone extraction
- The expansion of biometric surveillance infrastructure
- Increased monitoring of public and digital spaces technological and regulatory developments relating to encryption
- Recommendations