Dr Margie Cheesman

Proud to announce the launch of our report on the challenges that refugees/migrants in Kenya face accessing state-issued identification, generously funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and co-produced w/ @Haki_na_Sheria w/ support from Caribou Digital cariboudigital.net/publication/in…

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/ice…

Indigo Rumbelow: 'We do not remember the shopkeepers who could not open their stores on Oxford Street after the suffragettes had smashed their windows, or the people who could not watch rugby matches as anti-apartheid demonstrators stormed the pitch.' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Looking forward to hosting Marie Kolling (@diisdk) at @kingsdh 26 Mar 6:30pm for her talk on illicit digital economies, based on ethnographic research. 'In debt from money-never-spent: financial fraud and scams in Brazil' Find out more: tickettailor.com/events/digital…

Silicon Valley's turn towards 'technofascism' "isn't a blip or an anomaly. It’s a crescendo of forces central to the tech industry, and the current wave of rightwing tech titans are building on Silicon Valley’s foundations" not disrupting them @beccalew theguardian.com/technology/ng-…

Last week, the new owners of the Observer wrote to tell me they would *not* be issuing me with a new contract. So...I want to say publicly that it was an absolute privilege to speak on behalf of my Observer colleagues during our strike. I don't regret doing so. And I learned so much from it. 1/

What's development aid got to do with geopolitics? Quite a lot, as our Research Associate @drjacktaggart explains. The end of USAID has captured headlines, read about the long decline of development aid here: secondcoldwarobservatory.com/dispatch-2025-2

Really excited for this event on Fictions of Financialization at SOAS w/ IIPPE in a few weeks. Come by if you’re around London!

Please join me, Yussuf Bashir (@Haki_na_Sheria), @laurambing (Temple U. Institute for Law, Innovation & Technology), & @NoraNadja this Wed, 15th, 2pm GMT as we discuss digital ID, humanitarian tech, & the identification challenges facing migrants/refugees shorturl.at/yYtIh

🎙️ A bumper episode in the Under Surveillance podcast from @ansurnetwork The 2024 World Anthropological Union (@WAU_org) Webinar discusses Anthropology and Surveillance 🕵️🔎📷📹 🎧 Listen here ⤵️ buff.ly/3OYdKdC

This is one of those stories where much deeper-lying problems manifest as AI 'bias' -- Concerns about 'fraud' can only arise in an already-punitive welfare system obsessed with targeting 'deserving' recipients of aid. theguardian.com/society/2024/d…

Tracing the infrastructure of AI to mines, chip factories, data centers, and e-waste dumps, our video of the week unveils the environmental harms of the supply chain capitalism data centers. Feat. Ana Valdivia at @oiioxford buff.ly/4fXKlw5

It happened during a flight from Amsterdam, it happened that @AzadeAkbari texted me “our book is out!” It was one of the most beautiful moments I have ever lived. Thanks all amazing contributors that made Critical ICT4D possible. New book 👉👉 taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/… 📚💛

In collaboration with @JustFuturesLaw EPIC published a break down of how data brokers harm immigrants & circumvent due process. This is part of EPIC's ongoing series of resources about the @CFPB's Fair Credit Reporting Act rulemaking process & data brokers epic.org/documents/how-…

📢 New tech research 📢 We uncover the harms of the UK Home Office’s latest migration surveillance tools: privacyinternational.org/long-read/5457…

Sweden and Norway are realising that their cashless systems are vulnerable to Russian cyberattacks, and so are back to encouraging the use of cash. theguardian.com/world/2024/oct… In other news: the push for DPI around the world continues regardless.

Please join us remotely or in-person for this exciting event next week

🥁🥁 it’s here, and I’m amazed! 🥁🥁 My first book, Unfair ID, launches today with @SAGEPublishers. It is dedicated to all sufferers of harmful outcomes of digital identity, and imagines routes to overcoming #digitalID unfairness. us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/unfa… #UnfairID #datajustice

@sumingkhoo @SilviaHedley @SAGEPublishers 🙌🥳🎇

@SilviaHedley @SAGEPublishers Woohooo!!!

📢CALL TO ACTION📢 The Home Office is changing to a digital immigration system from 31 December 2024 onwards. We have created a new key guide on how to support someone with the transition to eVisas. Please read & share widely!! righttoremain.org.uk/how-to-support…