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Comment by Wairagala Wakabi

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Executive director of the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA); co-author on AI-enabled surveillance and human rights.
This large-scale and invasive AI-enabled surveillance of public spaces is not ‘legal, necessary or proportionate’ to the legitimate aim of providing security.
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Wairagala Wakabi, quoted in “Invasive AI-led mass surveillance in Africa violating freedoms, warn experts,” The Guardian, March 12, 2026.
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Ban governments from using AI to conduct mass surveillance of citizens
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