Antonella Napolitano
@svaroschi.bsky.social
Working on surveillance technology, migration, welfare.
Collaborating with public interest newsrooms and human rights orgs.
Bridging and connecting.
Previously at Privacy International, Open Migration, TechPresident.
Collaborating with public interest newsrooms and human rights orgs.
Bridging and connecting.
Previously at Privacy International, Open Migration, TechPresident.
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Companies are marketing “alternatives” to immigration detention such as ankle monitors, GPS-enabled watches, and biometric reporting apps. But research by Petra Molnar, Daniel Ghezelbash, Carolina Gottardo, and Antonella Napolitano finds that tech doesn’t dismantle detention—it expands it.
Technology is Turning Immigration Detention into an Invisible Leash | TechPolicy.Press
Rights-based and community-centered alternatives to detention are possible, write Petra Molnar, Daniel Ghezelbash, Carolina Gottardo, and Antonella Napolitano.
www.techpolicy.press
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.
Very glad to talk about our global research on technology and alternatives to detention on @techpolicypress.bsky.social.
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AI is big business at Europe’s borders
Exemptions for research and growing militarisation of border policy across Europe are creating lucrative opportunities. Defence firms benefit most and now research institutes in Switzerland are also cashing in.
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/human-ri...
Exemptions for research and growing militarisation of border policy across Europe are creating lucrative opportunities. Defence firms benefit most and now research institutes in Switzerland are also cashing in.
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/human-ri...
AI is big business at Europe's borders
Exemptions for research and growing militarisation of border policy across Europe are creating lucrative opportunities.
www.swissinfo.ch
December 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
AI is big business at Europe’s borders
Exemptions for research and growing militarisation of border policy across Europe are creating lucrative opportunities. Defence firms benefit most and now research institutes in Switzerland are also cashing in.
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/human-ri...
Exemptions for research and growing militarisation of border policy across Europe are creating lucrative opportunities. Defence firms benefit most and now research institutes in Switzerland are also cashing in.
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/human-ri...
Talk about bad companies
(Osborne stays a luminous example of a reverse benchmark)
www.reuters.com/business/ope...
(Osborne stays a luminous example of a reverse benchmark)
www.reuters.com/business/ope...
OpenAI taps former UK finance minister Osborne to lead global Stargate expansion
OpenAI has appointed former British finance minister George Osborne as managing director and head of its "OpenAI for Countries" initiative, the company said on Tuesday, as the ChatGPT maker ramps up e...
www.reuters.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Talk about bad companies
(Osborne stays a luminous example of a reverse benchmark)
www.reuters.com/business/ope...
(Osborne stays a luminous example of a reverse benchmark)
www.reuters.com/business/ope...
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"It’s extraction disguised as partnership, where protective language exists but enforcement mechanisms don’t."
John-Allan Namu on the Kenya-US Health Pact and language, intent, and how to re-imagine what health systems and economies could be.
www.theelephant.info/analysis/202...
John-Allan Namu on the Kenya-US Health Pact and language, intent, and how to re-imagine what health systems and economies could be.
www.theelephant.info/analysis/202...
JOHN-ALLAN NAMU - Kenya-US Health Pact: The Brutality Is in the Benign - The Elephant
An old map of Africa showed me how calmly power redraws the world. The Kenya–US health pact does it again — using soft language to mask a new extraction, this time of African health data in the global...
www.theelephant.info
December 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"It’s extraction disguised as partnership, where protective language exists but enforcement mechanisms don’t."
John-Allan Namu on the Kenya-US Health Pact and language, intent, and how to re-imagine what health systems and economies could be.
www.theelephant.info/analysis/202...
John-Allan Namu on the Kenya-US Health Pact and language, intent, and how to re-imagine what health systems and economies could be.
www.theelephant.info/analysis/202...
"What Mitsotakis sells as a “success story” is a classic regime of accumulation: EU money, cheap labor, and privatized public goods generate healthy returns for banks, construction conglomerates, and hotel chains, while the social wage is stripped back even further."
Spot on @gsamaras.bsky.social
Spot on @gsamaras.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"What Mitsotakis sells as a “success story” is a classic regime of accumulation: EU money, cheap labor, and privatized public goods generate healthy returns for banks, construction conglomerates, and hotel chains, while the social wage is stripped back even further."
Spot on @gsamaras.bsky.social
Spot on @gsamaras.bsky.social
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Fuori una nuova puntata di #Newsroom, il nostro podcast settimanale.
Ep 68 - L’Italia sostiene il piano della Libia per costruire 70 nuovi centri per i rimpatri volontari. I misteri di Arkenu, la compagnia che ridisegna il potere petrolifero libico
🎧 Ascolta #Newsroom ora ⬇️
Ep 68 - L’Italia sostiene il piano della Libia per costruire 70 nuovi centri per i rimpatri volontari. I misteri di Arkenu, la compagnia che ridisegna il potere petrolifero libico
🎧 Ascolta #Newsroom ora ⬇️
Ep 68 – L’Italia sostiene il piano libico per 70 nuovi centri di rimpatrio. I misteri di Arkenu e il nuovo potere petrolifero in Libia.
open.spotify.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Sabato è uscita #Muckrakers e in questo nuovo episodio e insieme a Gabriele Ciraolo copriamo come la Fifa abbia deciso di difendere gli interessi economici delle società.
Ci si può iscrivere qui: irpimedia.irpi.eu/newsletter/
Ci si può iscrivere qui: irpimedia.irpi.eu/newsletter/
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IrpiMedia offre tre newsletter gratuite. Scegli quale preferisci ricevere e iscriviti utilizzando l'apposito modulo.
irpimedia.irpi.eu
December 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Sabato è uscita #Muckrakers e in questo nuovo episodio e insieme a Gabriele Ciraolo copriamo come la Fifa abbia deciso di difendere gli interessi economici delle società.
Ci si può iscrivere qui: irpimedia.irpi.eu/newsletter/
Ci si può iscrivere qui: irpimedia.irpi.eu/newsletter/
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And I fear the UK isn’t far off doing something similar, despite the clear dangers people face www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
They fought with Britain and US in Afghanistan – now Taliban are taking their revenge
After the Taliban takeover of Kabul in 2021, Britain pledged sanctuary to Afghans who faced reprisals for working with UK forces – but thousands are still waiting. Now, as Britain drags its heels, we ...
www.independent.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 AM
And I fear the UK isn’t far off doing something similar, despite the clear dangers people face www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Where have we got to when a European govt is telling Afghans who are at risk of being killed for work they did for said govt that they will not be brought to safety as promised because there’s “no longer any political interest” in helping them? Terrifying shift www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Germany drops promise to resettle hundreds of Afghans
Interior ministry will tell 640 people awaiting sanctuary ‘there is no longer any political interest in their being admitted’
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Where have we got to when a European govt is telling Afghans who are at risk of being killed for work they did for said govt that they will not be brought to safety as promised because there’s “no longer any political interest” in helping them? Terrifying shift www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women, even during labor: ‘She was so afraid they would take her baby’
ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women, even during labor: ‘She was so afraid they would take her baby’
Pregnant immigrants in ICE monitoring programs are avoiding care, fearing detention during labor and delivery
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women, even during labor: ‘She was so afraid they would take her baby’
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Nelson Mandela died 12 years ago. In 1995 the UK government rejected his personal appeal to impose oil sanctions on Nigeria after its military regime executed nine environmental activists — as it wanted to protect oil company Shell’s commercial interests.
www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-bri...
www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-bri...
Britain rebuffed Nelson Mandela’s appeal for oil sanctions against Nigeria after it executed environmentalists
The British government rejected Nelson Mandela’s personal appeal to impose oil sanctions on Nigeria after its military regime executed nine environmental activists in 1995 as it wanted to protect oil ...
www.declassifieduk.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Nelson Mandela died 12 years ago. In 1995 the UK government rejected his personal appeal to impose oil sanctions on Nigeria after its military regime executed nine environmental activists — as it wanted to protect oil company Shell’s commercial interests.
www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-bri...
www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-bri...
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
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The Authoritarian Stack reveals what we already suspected: corporations have become the OS of U.S. governance. Cloud computing, AI, defense, satellites—all privatized. Unaccountable boards write the rules now.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The Authoritarian Stack reveals what we already suspected: corporations have become the OS of U.S. governance. Cloud computing, AI, defense, satellites—all privatized. Unaccountable boards write the rules now.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
www.authoritarian-stack.info
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💰 €58-64k annually FTE
🕐 0.5 freelance contract
🏡 Flexible and remote working
🚆 20 travel days per year
🌍 Open to residents of Council of Europe countries, Russia or Belarus
journalismarena.eu/collaborativ...
🕐 0.5 freelance contract
🏡 Flexible and remote working
🚆 20 travel days per year
🌍 Open to residents of Council of Europe countries, Russia or Belarus
journalismarena.eu/collaborativ...
We are hiring
Empower journalists to work safely and efficiently across borders! At Arena for Journalism in Europe, we are looking for someone to coordinate the Collaborative Desk and lead security awareness…
journalismarena.eu
December 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
💰 €58-64k annually FTE
🕐 0.5 freelance contract
🏡 Flexible and remote working
🚆 20 travel days per year
🌍 Open to residents of Council of Europe countries, Russia or Belarus
journalismarena.eu/collaborativ...
🕐 0.5 freelance contract
🏡 Flexible and remote working
🚆 20 travel days per year
🌍 Open to residents of Council of Europe countries, Russia or Belarus
journalismarena.eu/collaborativ...
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Are you an early-career professional who is passionate about investigative journalism? Are you constantly curious about new ways of doing journalism and making it reach critical audiences?
You might just be the fellow we are looking for.
You might just be the fellow we are looking for.
December 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Are you an early-career professional who is passionate about investigative journalism? Are you constantly curious about new ways of doing journalism and making it reach critical audiences?
You might just be the fellow we are looking for.
You might just be the fellow we are looking for.
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Un gruppo di deputati della maggioranza ha citato il piano per realizzare 70 centri per i rimpatri in Libia in una mozione approvata dal parlamento e dal governo. Sarebbe già stato discusso anche con il ministro Piantedosi.
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L’Italia sostiene il piano della Libia per costruire 70 nuovi centri per i rimpatri volontari
È quanto si legge in una mozione della maggioranza approvata il 16 ottobre. Il «coordinatore regionale» del progetto sui rimpatri volontari è un poliziotto italiano, Vincenzo Tagliaferri. La Libia, in...
irpimedia.irpi.eu
December 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Un gruppo di deputati della maggioranza ha citato il piano per realizzare 70 centri per i rimpatri in Libia in una mozione approvata dal parlamento e dal governo. Sarebbe già stato discusso anche con il ministro Piantedosi.
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NEW REPORT: The hostile environment is coded into the digital immigration system.
Migrants are stressed out by this complex and faulty system.
Access to housing, work and services hangs in the balance with little support from the Home Office.
Read more ⬇️
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
Migrants are stressed out by this complex and faulty system.
Access to housing, work and services hangs in the balance with little support from the Home Office.
Read more ⬇️
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
Stressed, Fearful and Excluded: New research exposes harms of digitalising immigration status
New research warns that the digitalisation of immigration status system is causing stress, confusion, and exclusion and placing an unfair burden on migrants to navigate a complex system and resolve…
www.openrightsgroup.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
NEW REPORT: The hostile environment is coded into the digital immigration system.
Migrants are stressed out by this complex and faulty system.
Access to housing, work and services hangs in the balance with little support from the Home Office.
Read more ⬇️
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
Migrants are stressed out by this complex and faulty system.
Access to housing, work and services hangs in the balance with little support from the Home Office.
Read more ⬇️
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
Unsurprisingly, shifting to a digital process for "innovation"'s sake created exclusion and stress. Authorities are bound to repeat the same mistakes if they don't focus on the needs of people and on the existing issues.
It's inefficient and expensive (despite the claims of some think tanks).
It's inefficient and expensive (despite the claims of some think tanks).
The shift to a "digital only immigration system" is already causing distress and exclusion for many migrants.
Our work with the University of Warwick has shown significant issues with the system.
We will be launching our report later today detailing the problems.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Our work with the University of Warwick has shown significant issues with the system.
We will be launching our report later today detailing the problems.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK’s new digital-only immigration system creating exclusion and fear, study finds
Obtaining an eVisa to prove their status or right to legally reside in Britain is causing migrants high levels of stress
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Unsurprisingly, shifting to a digital process for "innovation"'s sake created exclusion and stress. Authorities are bound to repeat the same mistakes if they don't focus on the needs of people and on the existing issues.
It's inefficient and expensive (despite the claims of some think tanks).
It's inefficient and expensive (despite the claims of some think tanks).
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A first-of-its-kind Texas law takes effect today. It aims to dam the flood of abortion pills into the red state — by letting people sue one another.
@daniellestephens.bsky.social and I went deep on the new law for a special episode of Politics Weekly America.
www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...
@daniellestephens.bsky.social and I went deep on the new law for a special episode of Politics Weekly America.
www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...
Has a Texas law created ‘abortion bounty hunters’? – podcast
In this special episode, the Guardian US reproductive health and justice reporter Carter Sherman speaks to people who are using, providing and protecting abortion pills and those fighting against them...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A first-of-its-kind Texas law takes effect today. It aims to dam the flood of abortion pills into the red state — by letting people sue one another.
@daniellestephens.bsky.social and I went deep on the new law for a special episode of Politics Weekly America.
www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...
@daniellestephens.bsky.social and I went deep on the new law for a special episode of Politics Weekly America.
www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...
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🚨 A huge leak exposes the new targets and internal operations of Intellexa, the secretive and murky company behind the notorious Predator spyware.
Introducing #IntellexaLeaks, a joint investigation with partners @insidestory.gr, @haaretzcom.bsky.social & WAV Research Collective 🧵👇
Introducing #IntellexaLeaks, a joint investigation with partners @insidestory.gr, @haaretzcom.bsky.social & WAV Research Collective 🧵👇
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🚨 A huge leak exposes the new targets and internal operations of Intellexa, the secretive and murky company behind the notorious Predator spyware.
Introducing #IntellexaLeaks, a joint investigation with partners @insidestory.gr, @haaretzcom.bsky.social & WAV Research Collective 🧵👇
Introducing #IntellexaLeaks, a joint investigation with partners @insidestory.gr, @haaretzcom.bsky.social & WAV Research Collective 🧵👇
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🚨 Happening Now! Solidarity on trial in #Greece.
Today, 24 humanitarian workers appear before a court in Lesbos on baseless felony charges carrying up to 20 years in prison—all for saving lives at sea. This prosecution is an outrage.
For more info see @hrw.org dispatch: www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
Today, 24 humanitarian workers appear before a court in Lesbos on baseless felony charges carrying up to 20 years in prison—all for saving lives at sea. This prosecution is an outrage.
For more info see @hrw.org dispatch: www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
Solidarity on Trial in Greece
Two dozen humanitarian workers face trial on the Greek island of Lesbos this week on baseless felony charges that carry 20 years in prison.
www.hrw.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:33 AM
🚨 Happening Now! Solidarity on trial in #Greece.
Today, 24 humanitarian workers appear before a court in Lesbos on baseless felony charges carrying up to 20 years in prison—all for saving lives at sea. This prosecution is an outrage.
For more info see @hrw.org dispatch: www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
Today, 24 humanitarian workers appear before a court in Lesbos on baseless felony charges carrying up to 20 years in prison—all for saving lives at sea. This prosecution is an outrage.
For more info see @hrw.org dispatch: www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
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🚨Intellexa Leaks:"Among the most startling findings is evidence that—at the time of the leaked training videos—Intellexa retained the capability to remotely access Predator customer systems, even those physically located on the premises of its govt customers."
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
To Catch a Predator: Leak exposes the internal operations of Intellexa’s mercenary spyware - Amnesty International Security Lab
Drawing on leaked internal company documents, sales and marketing material, as well as training videos, the “Intellexa Leaks” investigation gives a never-before-seen glimpse of the internal operations...
securitylab.amnesty.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 AM
🚨Intellexa Leaks:"Among the most startling findings is evidence that—at the time of the leaked training videos—Intellexa retained the capability to remotely access Predator customer systems, even those physically located on the premises of its govt customers."
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
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La Comisión Europea refuerza la externalización de fronteras en Senegal a través de un proyecto gestionado por la agencia de cooperación española FIAP.
Amplio resumen de @statewatch.bsky.social
www.statewatch.org/analyses/202...
Amplio resumen de @statewatch.bsky.social
www.statewatch.org/analyses/202...
Statewatch | Exporter la “gestion” carcérale des migrations : 30 millions d’euros de l’UE vers le Sénégal
30 millions d’euros provenant du budget d’aide au développement de l’UE ont été alloués au Sénégal pour le contrôle des migrations. L’examen de documents de la Commission européenne met clairement en ...
www.statewatch.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:07 AM
La Comisión Europea refuerza la externalización de fronteras en Senegal a través de un proyecto gestionado por la agencia de cooperación española FIAP.
Amplio resumen de @statewatch.bsky.social
www.statewatch.org/analyses/202...
Amplio resumen de @statewatch.bsky.social
www.statewatch.org/analyses/202...
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An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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🔴"FOI is the democratic canary in the coal mine. When official information flows freely, it signals that power is shared. When it’s withheld or delayed, it signals the opposite: power concentrated in the few."
Vital by Heather Brooke on Democracy 4 Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-the-br...
Vital by Heather Brooke on Democracy 4 Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-the-br...
The British state is addicted to secrecy - we need to fight back
Our politicians and officials are using public money to keep citizens in the dark, says Heather Brooke
democracyforsale.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🔴"FOI is the democratic canary in the coal mine. When official information flows freely, it signals that power is shared. When it’s withheld or delayed, it signals the opposite: power concentrated in the few."
Vital by Heather Brooke on Democracy 4 Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-the-br...
Vital by Heather Brooke on Democracy 4 Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-the-br...