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📄 Open-access article (2025): @duncanjane.bsky.social — “Abolishing dragnet surveillance: Assessing the relevance of the movement to defund the police for bulk signals intelligence surveillance”

*King’s Law Journal*

DOI: doi.org/10.1080/0961...

#OpenAccess #SIGINT #Surveillance #AcademicOutputs

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Join us on March 18 for a hybrid book launch hosted by the University of Johannesburg to hear from the authors of our latest book on democratising spy watching.

18 March | 12PM SAST | 10AM GMT
Register: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2z-w...

Sharing here an invitation to attend the hybrid book launch for @duncanjane.bsky.social and Allen Munoriyarwa's new edited collection. Registration link below. Wed. 18 March 2026 (10-12 UK time/12-14.00 South Africa time). Online or in the Nadine Gordimer auditorium, University of Johannesburg.

book cover of democratising spy watching

📢 New open-access volume: *Democratising Spy Watching* by @duncanjane.bsky.social launches 18 Mar 2026.

It explores public oversight of intelligence-driven digital surveillance across eight Southern African countries.

Published by @scotunipress.bsky.social | @uofgsps.bsky.social

#DigitalRights

Book cover titled 'Democratising Spy Watching' about public oversight of intelligence surveillance in Southern Africa, edited by Jane Duncan and Allen Munoriyarwa, with silhouettes and a CCTV camera illustration.

Cover of 'Democratising Spy Watching' showing silhouettes of people and a surveillance camera, highlighting digital surveillance oversight in Southern Africa. Text is book blurb from webpage

Want to know what the buzz is about?

Here’s a glimpse of our new book - swipe to see what’s waiting for you 📖✨
books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/book/sup-978...

#BookBlurb #SneakPeek

📘 Democratising Spy Watching explores public oversight of intelligence-driven digital surveillance across Southern Africa.

A new book edited by IAMCR member Jane Duncan & Allen Munoriyarwa.

iamcr.org/books-Duncan...

Meet the authors behind our latest release Jane Duncan and Allen Munoriyarwa

Want to know more?
books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/book/sup-978...
#AuthorSpotlight #BookLaunch

Out now, from our own @duncanjane.bsky.social and Allen Munoriyarwa, this new study with @scotunipress.bsky.social explores the need for public oversight of intelligence driven surveillance in Southern Africa.

Thrilled that the wait is over
@uofgsociology.bsky.social

Cultural boycotts are a tool of the oppressed - and Eurovision organisers ought to pay attention | LBC The European Broadcasting Union has failed to take a decision to withdraw Israel’s participation from the Eurovision song contest.

A piece I did on the power of cultural boycotts and why Israel should be removed from Eurovision and individual Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Winter Olympics, learning the lessons from the hugely impactful cultural boycott of apartheid South Africa
www.lbc.co.uk/article/cult...

Proud to say this book will be out in the next two weeks
@uofgsociology.bsky.social

We need to stop the spies abusing Silicon Valley’s runaway AI in the name of national security | Daily Maverick Intelligence has become about obtaining and maintaining global dominance rather than just protecting countries against imminent threats. It is now too risky to leave intelligence agencies to police th...

Here's a new piece by our own Jane Duncan, in the @dailymaverick.co.za, about the increasingly unaccountable use of AI by national security agencies.