We were thrilled to moderate and present at #DRAPAC2026, in a panel titled “Reimagining Borders: Migration, Surveillance, and Human Rights in the Global South.” Thank you organizers DAKILA and Foundation for Media Alternatives, and partners OHCHR, @idcoalition.bsky.social, and ELSAM.

The AI Resist List is LIVE 🎉 Co-built w/ @weandai.bsky.social, @dairinstitute.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social, & @refugeelab.ca, this database highlights global efforts to challenge AI, showing how we can resist, refuse, reimagine, and reclaim from Big Tech's dominance. airesistlist.org

In an interview with a Kashmiri journalist writing under a pseudonym, everyday life emerges as a landscape shaped by checkpoints, phone searches, and the constant possibility of state scrutiny. Read the full interview via @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/surveillance...

For too long, the Global North has deployed digital tools to manage migration without involving those most affected. This has led to "digital othering," where algorithms scale discrimination and strip people of their agency. 🧵 bit.ly/4wjc8zk

The MTM is at #DRAPAC - The Digital Rights Asia Pacific Assembly in Manila, Philippines 🇵🇭 organized by @engagemedia.org, Foundation for Media Alternatives, and DAKILA. Come see our panel on border surveillance with ELSAM, @idcoalition.bsky.social, OHCHR, as well as Shakeen, journalist from Kashmir

The right to repair is a right to a future. That’s what drives Mathew Lubari, our 2024 MTM Fellow. As the Co-founder of Community Creativity for Development (CC4D), he’s teaching refugee youth and women how to reclaim their technology. Mathew shares his perspective at our 2025 gathering in Nairobi.

How do we move beyond research that just observes harm and toward methodologies that build power? ✊ The MTM Fellowship is built on 7 Core Principles of Participatory Methodologies. See the thread to explore the pillars of how we are building a different world.

Displaced communities are used as a testing ground for surveillance and border tech. “Nothing about us, without us” - people who have lived through these systems are the only ones qualified to lead the research, define the strategies, and design the pushback. www.opendemocracy.net/en/migration...

MTM Co-Founder @petramolnar.com joins Aman Sethi of @opendemocracy.net in the In Solidarity podcast to discuss why the “Border Industrial Complex” is booming and what it means for people on the move and how surveillance makes the world impassable for some people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPt2...

The MTM Manifesto was one of the most important outcomes of our 2025 gathering in Nairobi, Kenya. Look through the thread to see the core pillars of the movement we’re building together, and read the full report at the link in bio ☝️

The AI Resist List is LIVE 🎉 Co-built by @weandai.bsky.social, @dairinstitute.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social, @refugeelab.ca this database highlights global efforts to challenge AI, and how we can resist, refuse, reimagine, and reclaim its power from Big Tech. Check it out www.airesistlist.org

In a piece for @opendemocracy.net, MTM Fellow Simon Drotti challenges the way the world views displaced communities with Memory Scroll, a social platform designed to return narrative power to those who have lived through displacement. Read Simon’s full reflection here: bit.ly/3P5mS3S

What happens when the people most impacted by border tech are the ones in charge of the narrative? We worked with incredible Fellows and partners who are proving that the future of tech and migration can be participatory and justice-rooted. Read the report here: bit.ly/3QqskhT

Last year, I had the privilege to join the in-person gathering of the @migrationtechmonitor.com Fellowship, an initiative that supports people with lived experiences of migration. I also joined some of them on this podcast discussing technology and injustice open.spotify.com/episode/5FAj...

Digital Othering - How Technology Increases Injustice

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👋 We're back! We know it's been a while, but just because we've been quiet, doesn't mean we have not been busy! Check out some of the things we have been working on over the last few months - also on our website: www.migrationtechmonitor.com

#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.”

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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?

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...

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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#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

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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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“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.

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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...

‘How do we control Palestinians? We are everywhere’

Chilling new book shows how states like Israel control borders using inhumane, experimental surveillance technology

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🎧 Borders patrolled by AI-powered robotic dogs once seemed like something purely in the realm of dystopian sci-fi novels. But this is now a part of our (still dystopian) reality. We speak with lawyer @petramolnar.com about the border industrial complex ⤵️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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...

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...

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