The third book in the series is now available to download here. Edited by Dr. Tony Roberts and Admire Mare. 

Drawing on the empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated research of the African Digital Rights Network, this book examines how governments and private actors in Africa use spyware, mobile phone extraction, biometric and face recognition systems, and other technologies to serve power interests. Eight chapters examine eight African countries. For context, each chapter begins with a brief history of pre-digital surveillance systems under colonial and post-liberation governments. The book provides the most comprehensive documentation to date of digital surveillance in each country as well as the most sustained analysis of the socio-cultural, political, and economic drivers and forms of resistance to rights-violating surveillance across the continent. Each chapter concludes with concrete policy recommendations at local, national, and international levels.

A collected edition from Zed Books.

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