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Has a generation of activists given in to surveillance?

Reflections after months poring over interviews with activists about surveillance.

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G20 crowd, Kashfi Halford

For three years now, I have taught a class under the broad title of ‘International Relations and the Internet’. Often, I get the feeling that I am learning as much from the students I teach as they are getting from me.

At thirty-five years old, I’m flattered to learn that I qualify (just) as a digital native. But it becomes more and more obvious that the students I teach and I belong to different generations.