Revealed: COP28 president linked to spyware experts via ‘AI university’

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British citizens attending COP28 “will expose themselves to a tightly knit network of surveillance and monitoring”, according to Andreas Krieg of King’s College London – who also told openDemocracy that “electronic devices brought to the UAE have to be assumed to be infiltrated”.

Krieg said: “Critical discourse around COP28 will be widely made impossible – especially for activists and journalists that do not have the protection of a larger brand or employer behind them. But even here, evidence from the past suggests that often neither the passport of individuals nor their affiliation protects them from arbitrary arrests.

Period	1 Dec 2023
Held at	openDemocracy Ltd, United Kingdom