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– Surveillance as a feminist issue (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News December 6, 2016

In her compelling and rigorous essay, writer and digital activist Shmyla Khan argues that women's experiences of technologies and surveillance are vastly different than the dominant male experience.
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