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Aksel Eck • 14 Mar 2024

Mapping Tech Companies’ Cloud Expansion in the Gulf and its Human Rights Implications

Since 2018, an increasing number of companies, mainly from the U.S. and China, launched cloud regions and data centers in…

  • alibaba
  • Alphabet
  • Amazon
SMEX • 22 Feb 2023

Digital Safety Helpdesk Expands beyond West Asia and North Africa

For the second year in a row, Facebook ranked first as the platform where users faced the highest number of…

  • Digital Rights
  • Digital Safety Helpdesk
  • Facebook
SMEX • 28 May 2021

Saudi Arabia: Google Should Halt Plans to Establish Cloud Region

Joint Statement by Human Rights and Digital Privacy Rights Organizations The undersigned human rights and digital rights organizations urge Google…

  • Business And Human Rights
  • Google
  • Google Cloud
Marianne Rahme • 30 Apr 2021

Google Cloud’s Data Center in KSA raises data privacy concerns in the region

In a decision to expand their global network with new cloud regions, Google announced in December 2020 that Google Cloud…

  • Business And Human Rights
  • Censorship
  • Data Centers
Mohammad Moghabat • 18 Feb 2021

Big Techs’ Community Standards: Uncontrolled [Opinion]

There is no doubt that the power Big Techs possess over society is “big.” It is ironic how a deregulated…

  • Algorithm
  • Algorithmic Moderation
  • Big Techs
SMEX • 21 Jan 2021

Statement from global civil society on the impact of Facebook, Google and Twitter: Concern for democracy and human rights must not end at the US’s borders

We are organisations working globally to strengthen democracy and human rights. Today we are demanding that Facebook, Google, and Twitter…

  • Democracy
  • Donald Trump
  • Facebook