As a result, nondemocracies especially take advantage of the current gaps in the regulations. Technology develops fast, but preparation of policies and laws takes longer than expected. To achieve this goal, we need well-prepared technology laws and policy regulations. Our primary strategy can be holding countries and private companies accountable for their abuse of surveillance tools. We need to deal with repressive use of surveillance technologies to tackle digital authoritarianism.
For this reason, the size of the surveillance market is expected to reach nearly USD 68 million by 2027. The use of surveillance technologies for authoritarian purposes is a problem in democracies with relatively poor human rights records as well as nondemocracies. It facilitates watching, controlling, and punishing people for their undesirable acts by the oppressive regimes. Technology-empowered surveillance is an underlying characteristic of digital authoritarianism. From their doctor’s appointments to shopping history, states now have extensive data on their citizens, which can easily be accessed and used for political purposes. Following the development of modern and digital data systems, states began to adopt new technological tools to monitor their citizens’ online activities. At earlier times, states implemented surveillance activities through traditional means and structures, such as schools and prisons. Surveillance has been central to state authority and control since the formation of the modern state system. As a result, it is of significance to work both on states and their interaction with non-state actors with a view to consolidating their power through technological means. Within the context of digital authoritarianism, data governance may incorporate both states and non-state actors that collaborate with states to facilitate their control over the data sources.
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Read the full report here.ĭata governance is an integral aspect of digital authoritarianism because it incorporates any type of control, authority, and manipulation of data.
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This extract from the report on data governance is from the series of reports to come out of the research under the Unfreedom Monitor. The Unfreedom Monitor is a Global Voices Advox research initiative examining the growing phenomenon of networked or digital authoritarianism. Authoritarian regimes have long had a complicated relationship with media and communications technologies.
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