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– Surveillance of Palestinians and the fight for digital rights (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News October 26, 2017

Surveillance of Palestinians has always been part of Israel's colonial project, but new technologies have made this surveillance even more intrusive and widespread. Israel particularly uses social media to monitor what individual Palestinians say and do, as well as to gather and analyze information on attitudes among the Palestinian public more broadly.
Source: MEDIA FEED

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