“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands To Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns
date linked: 24 July 2026
source: link to article, from techdirt.com
Looks like the Trump administration is responding to dumb decisions and cynical cuts with pure exploitation:
After withdrawing from the World Health Organization and losing access to its global network that tracks and combats disease outbreaks, the U.S. is attempting to obtain the information necessary to address potential pandemics through a patchwork of deals with individual countries
- Donald Trump
- data
- data as oil
- Kenya
- Uganda
- World Health Organization
- privacy
- surveillance
- anonymity
- artificial intelligence
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