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This policy brief aims to unpack how European high-tech companies have helped to broaden the “authoritarian toolkit” of the Egyptian regime. Subsequently, it reviews empirical fingerprints left by application of similar techniques by the Egyptian government pursuing its critics in the West and provides recommendations on how protection of diaspora activists could work against digital transnational authoritarian threats and how respective practices and laws could be successfully integrated into broader frameworks of European cyber security.
Extract :
In August 2018, the final clampdown on online media was enacted with a cybercrime law, signed into power by the President, imposing life sentences without the possibility of parole for crimes presumably aiming to disrupt public order, jeopardise citizen safety or harm national unity. Moreover, article 2 of the legislation requires internet service providers to retain users’ personal information and details of their online activity, which must be released to security bodies upon request (al-Abd, 2018)...
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