Digital Medusa is a boutique advisory providing digital governance research and advocacy services. It is the brainchild of Farzaneh Badi[e]i.Digital Medusa’s mission is to provide objective and alternative digital governance narratives.
Farzaneh Badiei is a recovering academic focused on digital governance, unfettered access to technology, and human rights. She founded Digital Medusa to push back against tech determinism and defend a global, open, rights-respecting digital space.
Topics include the societal impacts of AI, human rights implications of surveillance technologies, consumer privacy and data protection, social media governance, and more.
Twenty-five years at the intersection of technology and democracy — inside the campaigns, the platforms, and the rooms where the decisions got made. The synthesis, the patterns, and the early warnings from someone who was actually in the machine.