Ep7: Tech Borders & Migration Policy in the EU (with Caterina Rodelli)
🎙️ Security Unwired Episode 7 welcomes Caterina Rodelli, EU Policy Analyst at Access Now, a non-profit organization that advocates for digital rights and helps marginalized groups in protecting their data and ensuring their digital safety.
→ Caterina shares in Episode 7 different cases of Tech applications in border push backs and cases of EU surveillance on migrants. Caterina draws on her experience with EU migration policy jeopardizing digital rights and safety of migrants and the civil society working on protecting them. Caterina's experience explains the phenomenon of EU policy's role in Tech borders on land, at sea and in digital spaces.
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About Guest: Caterina Rodelli works on issues related to biometric surveillance, artificial intelligence, privacy, and her main focus is around the intersection between technology, borders and the rights of people on the move. Currently, Caterina is coordinating -with other organizations fighting for digital rights and racial justice- the #ProtectNotSurveil campaign advocating for migrants protection from EU surveillance. Previously, Caterina advised in some strategic litigation cases challenging EU migration policies in the Central Mediterranean and in Libya. She worked and volunteered for several NGOs that supports migrants’ rights, as the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), in Belgium, and Mobile Info Team for Refugees, in Greece. Caterina holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Cooperation Studies in the Mediterranean region, from the Universitat Autonoma of Barcellona, University of Ca Foscari of Venice and Univerité Paul Valéry III of Montpellier.
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