Background The main German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
have implemented digital contact tracing apps to assist the authorities with COVID-19 …

Artificial intelligence and its societal and ethical implications are complicated and
conflictingly interpreted. Surveillance is one of the most ethically challenging concepts in AI …

China's unprecedented measures to mobilize its diverse surveillance apparatus played a
key part in the country's successful containment of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic …

Since the Arab Spring, North Africa has witnessed increased levels of authoritarianism and a
general decline in human rights as authoritarian regimes have consolidated power. During …

As the COVID-19 pandemic expanded over the globe, governments implemented a series of
technological measures to prevent the disease's spread. The development of the COVID …

As the pandemic spread globally, there was an explosion of scholarship written on the
effects the pandemic had in numerous fields. Human rights scholars were no exception to …

Background: This article explored the leadership responses that were used by two
comprehensive universities in South Africa (Nelson Mandela University and University of …

In this special issue, we reflect on the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) crisis
and the containment measures put in place by formal authorities, combining both …

One of key goals of deliberative mini-publics is to counteract expert domination in
policymaking. Mini-publics can be expected to democratize expertise by providing citizens …

Is blockchain the technological blueprint of a utopian decentralized future or a dystopian
centralized one? In search of an answer to this question, this article juxtaposes blockchain …