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📢 We are thrilled to welcome our THIRD cohort of fellows!

Joining us are:
🔵 Sophia Amimo, Kenya
🔴 Aqila Abdelkarim, Somaliland
🟡 Abid, Kashmir
🟢 Issa Amro, Palestine
🟠 Nuria Arias and Ever Martinez, detained in the United States

➡️ www.migrationtechmonitor.com/2025fellows

What will they work on?
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#FilistinİçinTeknoloji serimizin bu bölümünde "Migration and Technology Monitor" (@migrationtechmonitor.com) kolektifinin Filistinli araştırmacı ve dijital haklar savunucusu Mona Shtaya (@monashtaya.bsky.social) ile yaptığı söyleşiyi çevirdik:

bianet.org/haber/filist...
Filistinlilere karşı gözetim teknolojisi, duygu tanıma ve öngörücü yapay zekâ: Mona Shtaya ile söyleşi
“Hayatı zorlaştıran teknoloji değil, teknolojiyi güvenlik ve askerî amaçla kullanan İsrail. Bu teknolojileri önce Filistinliler üzerinde test edip sonra dünyaya satıyorlar; işgalden kâr ediyorlar.”
bianet.org
April 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
📢 We are thrilled to welcome our THIRD cohort of fellows!

Joining us are:
🔵 Sophia Amimo, Kenya
🔴 Aqila Abdelkarim, Somaliland
🟡 Abid, Kashmir
🟢 Issa Amro, Palestine
🟠 Nuria Arias and Ever Martinez, detained in the United States

➡️ www.migrationtechmonitor.com/2025fellows

What will they work on?
April 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Israel is using state-of-the-art technology against Palestinians not only in Gaza, but also against residents in the West Bank.

2024/25 MTM fellow and Palestinian researcher @monashtaya.bsky.social talks with us about life under high tech occupation

➡️ www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/monas-b...
April 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Thanks @techpolicypress.bsky.social for the opportunity to reflect on social media surveillance and migration under the Trump Administration, referencing great work by @nanjala.bsky.social and @danmcquillan.bsky.social, and reporting by @aclu.org and @404media.co, among others
Widespread surveillance leads to abuses of power, discrimination, and the stifling of freedom of expression, says Petra Molnar. Historically marginalized communities will bear the disproportionate brunt of this type of social media surveillance, she writes.
Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name | TechPolicy.Press
Widespread surveillance leads to abuses of power, discrimination, and the stifling of freedom of expression, writes Petra Molnar.
www.techpolicy.press
April 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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AI use is rapidly growing in DHS for social media surveillance, visa revocations, and deportations—an alarming trend evident even before Trump’s second term, warns Paromita Shah, co-founder and executive director of Just Futures Law.
Five Findings from an Analysis of the US Department of Homeland Security’s AI Inventory | TechPolicy.Press
AI use is rapidly growing in DHS for social media surveillance, visa revocations, and deportations, warns Just Futures Law's Paromita Shah.
www.techpolicy.press
April 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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While marginalized communities are the most affected, not even the powerful are immune - like ex-CISA director Chris Krebs.

www.forbes.com/sites/tonybr... - Tony Bradley @forbes.com

Silence from the cybersecurity community - only a few spoke out, like @k8em0.bsky.social @lutasecurity.bsky.social
Deafening Silence From The Cybersecurity Industry
Chris Krebs affirmed the 2020 election was secure. Now he's the target of an Executive Order—and the cybersecurity industry’s silence is enabling a dangerous precedent.
www.forbes.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
#CrossCommunityJournalism is a collaboration between the MTM, @fromsea2city.bsky.social and @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social. A Greek and a Lebanese reporter, both based in #Thessaloniki, will join forces to make #localreporting on #migration more equitable. #BuildingBridges #Humanrights
April 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Automated self-deportation: #CBPhome is part of #Trump's immigration reforms. The app invites people to initiate their own deportation process,
@aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social reports. Earlier this year, Trump took down #CBPOne, the only way for #asylumseekers to get an appointment at the border.
Trump unveils new ‘self-deportation’ app
US President Donald Trump has unveiled a new ‘self-deportation’ app called CBP Home.
www.aljazeera.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Another avoidable tragedy in the central Mediterranean: 6 dead, 40 missing after shipwreck near Lampedusa.

Survivors reported that some of the missing had fallen off the boat in rough seas.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
Six dead, 40 missing as migrant boat capsizes near Lampedusa
Italian media say 10 people rescued as search continues for more survivors.
www.aljazeera.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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🚨 New Report: The governments of Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore are likely customers of Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions finds @citizenlab.ca

Read the report here: citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...
Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon’s Proliferating Spyware Operations - The Citizen Lab
In our first investigation into Israel-based spyware company, Paragon Solutions, we begin to untangle multiple threads connected to the proliferation of Paragon's mercenary spyware operations across t...
citizenlab.ca
March 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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"We want to keep as much out of the landfill as possible.We even found a home for jalapeños this year.We found out that pigs really like jalapeños"🌶️

Amazing Interview with Yoli Soto, Founder of Borderlands Produce Rescue - @mdelbosque.bsky.social @theborderchronicle.bsky.social tinyurl.com/7vj745xz
Feeding the Borderlands and Beyond: A Q&A with Yoli Soto, Founder of Borderlands Produce Rescue
Last Tuesday morning, just as President Trump’s tariffs on Mexico went into effect, I visited a produce warehouse in Nogales, Arizona.
tinyurl.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
“Nothing about us without us”: People on the move interrogate border tech with the Migration and Technology Monitor. #MTM's @petramolnar.com writes for #OpenGlobalRights about gaining new perspectives through participation. #HumanRights #TechMigration www.openglobalrights.org/people-on-mo...
“Nothing about us without us”: People on the move interrogate border tech with the Migration and Technology Monitor
People with lived experiences of migration must be at the center of efforts to address the growing impact of border technologies.
www.openglobalrights.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Big thanks to Aman Sethi @opendemocracy.net for this conversation about border tech and dystopia, but also strategies of care and solidarity!

Open Democracy is a great venue to share your work, like my chapter excerpt from The Walls Have Eyes earlier this year:
www.opendemocracy.net/en/palestine...
March 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
From Palestine to Kashmir to Xinjiang, technology is used to oppress and occupy. Want to learn more? Read our latest newsletter and sign up for MTM updates. #bordertech #humanrights
To sign up: www.migrationtechmonitor.com/newsletter
Latest Newsletter: www.migrationtechmonitor.com/campaigns/vi...
March 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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For #WorldBookDay, here is a roundup of some of my recent favourite books. What are you reading right now?

My top 10:

1. Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by @joyfulcarla.bsky.social and Nick Montgomery www.akpress.org/joyful-milit...
Joyful Militancy
<p><em>Joyful Militancy</em> investigates how fear, self-righteousness, and moralism infiltrate and take root within liberation movements, what to do about them, and ultimately how tenderness and vuln...
www.akpress.org
March 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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🚨Don’t miss this excellent piece by the amazing journalist @waelqarssifi.bsky.social, our @migrationtechmonitor.com 2023 Fellow reflecting on the importance of data protection in post-Assad Syria

(Available in English and Arabic)

www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/cujot17...
Concerns About Data Safety in Post-Assad Syria/تساؤلات حول أمن البيانات في سوريا ما بعد الأسد — Migration and Technology Monitor
Wael Qarssifi, MTM 2023 Fellow After the fall of Assad’s terror regime in Syria, the world is still unsure in how far to trust the new Islamist leaders. In this complex and developing situation, d...
www.migrationtechmonitor.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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The fall of Assad’s terror regime in Syria created a very complex and developing situation. Amid this reality, data safety does not seem like a priority. In this @migrationtechmonitor.com piece I explain why the issue should not be ignored.
www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/cujot17...
Concerns About Data Safety in Post-Assad Syria/تساؤلات حول أمن البيانات في سوريا ما بعد الأسد — Migration and Technology Monitor
Wael Qarssifi, MTM 2023 Fellow After the fall of Assad’s terror regime in Syria, the world is still unsure in how far to trust the new Islamist leaders. In this complex and developing situation, d...
www.migrationtechmonitor.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
#DataSecurity does not come to mind as a priority in post-Assad #Syria. But effective protection of citizens’ data goes hand in hand with fundamental rights. #MTM ’s @waelqarssifi.bsky.social explains why Syrians should worry. www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/cujot17... #dataprotection
Concerns About Data Safety in Post-Assad Syria/تساؤلات حول أمن البيانات في سوريا ما بعد الأسد — Migration and Technology Monitor
Wael Qarssifi, MTM 2023 Fellow After the fall of Assad’s terror regime in Syria, the world is still unsure in how far to trust the new Islamist leaders. In this complex and developing situation, d...
www.migrationtechmonitor.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Learn about the work of Judith Cabrera, one of our 2024 Fellows! Judith codirects the Border Line Crisis Center in Tijuana and was interviewed by @mdelbosque.bsky.social with @theborderchronicle.bsky.social.

www.theborderchronicle.com/p/i-try-to-f...
“I Try to Focus on What’s Possible”: A Q&A with Judith Cabrera de la Rocha, Codirector of Border Line Crisis Center in Tijuana
Greetings from the Border Invasion.
www.theborderchronicle.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Have you watched @aljazeera.com's FREE documentary by journalist Antony Loewenstein called The Palestine Laboratory? It features our very own 2024 Fellow @monashtaya.bsky.social and MTM's @petramolnar.com as well as friends like @memomiller.bsky.social @theborderchronicle.bsky.social!
🚨Don't miss Antony Loewenstein's groundbreaking documentary The Palestine Laboratory, investigating how Israel tests out technology on Palestinians and exports it around the world. Free to watch on Youtube with @aljazeera.com: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtxs... 🧵
The Palestine Laboratory documentary episode 1 trailer
YouTube video by Antony Loewenstein
www.youtube.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Last week, we hosted @elladodd.bsky.social @ihaverights.bsky.social for our monthly MTM webinars! Don't miss their report with @borderviolence.bsky.social on Greece's high-tech refugee camp on Samos island, monitored by EU-funded CCTV cameras & fingerprint collection: ihaverights.eu/samos-border...
Press release: NGOs on Samos uncover a covert operation against asylum seekers and the invasive use of technology in the Samos Closed Controlled Access Centre
Hot off the heels of being condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for systemic pushbacks, Greece is also violating the rights of asylum seekers in the digital arena.  21 January 2025, Samos,...
ihaverights.eu
February 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
MTM director Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com with Just Security @justsecurity.org shares some of the border technologies under the second Trump administration. #humanrights #asylumseekers #bordertechBorder Technologies Under Trump 2.0 www.justsecurity.org/105662/borde...
Border Technologies Under Trump 2.0
With few safeguards to govern AI deployment, high-risk experimentation at the border will likely continue during Trump's second term.
www.justsecurity.org
February 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Want to keep up with the Migration and Technology Monitor? Need information on what the Trump presidency plans to do with #bordertech? Sign up to receive our monthly newsletter www.migrationtechmonitor.com/newsletter #dataandprivacyday #peopleonthemove #humanrights #bordertech
January 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
MTM 2023 Fellow @vmreports.bsky.social writes about the demise of the CBP One applications and the impacts on border communities in the age of Trump 2.0: www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/the-sud...
#humanrights #bordercrossing #asylumseekers #bordertech #usmexicoborder
January 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM