Author: Hanna Zylowski
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Surveillance State Rhymes with Digital Fate
This article examines the global export of Chinese surveillance technologies through the lens of surveillance capitalism. It argues that China’s party-state model has instrumentalised commercial data-extraction logics to construct a scalable surveillance apparatus, exported through initiatives such as the Digital Silk Road. It concludes that surveillance tech exports are driven by economic and geopolitical interests,…
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From fragmentation to flexibility
How can the EU design digital infrastructure ensuring both security and civil rights for times of peace and crisis? The answer lies in resilience by design, through frameworks like the EUDI Wallet, NIS2 Directive, and the IEA, which create distributed, interoperable system. This proactive architecture ensures societal continuity across the bloc, making digital resilience both…
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Cybersecurity of the Seabed
How vulnerable are Europe’s submarine cables to hybrid threats, and what does this mean for maritime cybersecurity? The analysis shows that physical exposure, digital weaknesses and governance gaps make cables key targets for state-linked actors. Protecting them requires stronger monitoring, shared EU-NATO coordination and higher cybersecurity standards.