In this article for Africa in Fact, Adio writes: “The choice facing Africa is stark: continue as a data colony providing cheap labour for surveillance tools that serve foreign interests, or assert digital sovereignty by developing governance frameworks that prioritise African lives over foreign profits. ”
Surveillance Watch now has an interactive diagram that shows the high level of funding towards various surveillance technology types: You can click through to explore by funder as well, example: The belly of surveillance capitalism can only be exposed by following the money to understanding who's complicit in the usage of tech for war crimes, genocides, any other grave injustices etc. image