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Follow the Surveillance

a Breadcrumb Trail of Surveillance Technology Exports to Africa

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Follow the Surveillance

a Breadcrumb Trail of Surveillance Technology Exports to Africa

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This paper describes the work done to track the supply chains of sur-veillance technologies from the global North to African governments for illegal surveillance of their citizens. We conducted desk research to analyse the supply side of surveillance technology exported to African countries. Our preliminary findings show nine key exporting states-actors for surveillance technologies to Africa. These are China; European Union agencies, and member states France, Germany, Italy; Israel, United Kingdom, Russia, and the United States of Amer-ica.
Regarding the specific surveillance technologies being transferred, each export-ing state tends to have a focus area, both in geographic area and within the five surveillance technology categories covered by this study. The paper identified six motives for state surveillance, including the suppliers' perspective. These are: 1) surveillance as legitimacy for state security, 2) surveillance for political gain, 3) surveillance as diplomacy, 4) surveillance as a tool for development, 5) Surveil-lance as neocolonialism, and 6) surveillance as business opportunity. Further re-search is needed to deepen the analysis of surveillance technologies exports to the African continent and the human rights violations.

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OrganisatieHogeschool Utrecht
AfdelingKenniscentrum Digital Business & Media
LectoraatProcesinnovatie en informatiesystemen
Gepubliceerd inProceedings IFIP Joint Working Conference on the Future of Digital Work: The Challenge of Inequality - IFIPJWC 2023: After Latour: Globalisation, Inequity and Climate Change Springer, Cham, Switzerland, Uitgave: 696, Pagina's: 241-261
Datum2023-12-06
TypeArtikel
ISBN978-3-031-50154-8
DOI10.1007/978-3-031-50154-8_19
TaalEngels

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