The US just announced its largest monetary seizure ever, worth more than $15 billion in bitcoins. The targeted entity is an investment conglomerate known as Prince Holding Group, responsible for running more than 10 scam compounds in Cambodia and for conducting international money laundering operations.
This article explores the phenomena of scam cities, the role of cryptocurrencies in facilitating international money laundering and how blockchain can be used as a tool for accountability.

In Nepal, the line between connection and control blurred when the government banned 26 social media platforms. What followed was a youth-led uprising that revealed deep fractures in its fragile democracy. This article reflects on how digital tools can empower or silence, and why Nepal’s struggle offers lessons for a world wrestling with the politics of technology.

A new report published by Europol highlights the increasing threat coming from the use of AI in organized crime. Deepfake extortions, politically motivated cyberattacks and targeted data theft: cybercrime is evolving at a faster pace than Artificial Intelligence regulation. This article explores how organized crime is implementing Generative Artificial Intelligence to expand and professionalize illicit activities worldwide, and the massive human and economic costs that come with it.

Pegasus spyware Europe has turned smartphones into weapons of surveillance, piercing the heart of privacy and trust. What once seemed like the tool of authoritarian regimes has quietly entered Europe’s democratic core.

From Poland’s elections to Spain’s independence movements and Germany’s secret purchase, spyware is no longer just a foreign policy concern – but a domestic democratic crisis. This article explores how Pegasus spyware reshapes European democracy, undermining press freedom, competitive elections, and the citizen–state relationship itself.

As Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) move rapidly from sci-fi promise to clinical reality, they challenge our assumptions about autonomy, privacy, and what it means to be human. This article explores how BCIs turn thoughts into data, inviting the same extractive models that already dominate our digital lives into the mind itself. With tech giants leading the race and regulation lagging behind, it asks what ethical frameworks and democratic safeguards are needed to protect cognitive agency.

AI is reshaping our world—but not equally. This article explores how artificial intelligence amplifies existing global inequalities, concentrating benefits in the Global North while pushing environmental burdens and ethical risks onto the Global South. Drawing on concepts like digital colonialism and disparities in AI investment, it reveals how access without autonomy reinforces injustice—and calls for a more democratic and inclusive technological future.