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[Rasha Younes @Rasha__Younes]

🚨Breaking: New @hrw and partners campaign #SecureOurSocials launched today✈️

#SecureOurSocials shows how @Meta has underinvested in user safety and underestimated its platforms' role in facilitating abuses against #LGBT people in the #MENA region.

⬇️🧵

https://t.co/tzauEVtlIV

[Rasha Younes @Rasha__Younes]

🚨New @hrw report: "Meta's Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine 🇵🇸Content on Instagram and Facebook."

We found that the censorship is systemic, global, and a product of the company’s failure to meet its human rights responsibilities.

🧵⬇️

https://t.co/6XE70DQCDz

[louis charbonneau @loucharbon]

🚨🧵 @hrw reaction to new UN General Assembly 3rd Committee resolution on human rights in the digital space adopted by consensus today:

It "sends a powerful message to UN member countries that they should protect fundamental rights online at a time of increased threats."

[The Engine Room @EngnRoom]

We are so excited to launch our latest research on biometrics in the humanitarian sector! With support from @OpenSociety, we took an updated look at the risks, benefits & use cases of biometric collection in the humanitarian sector ⬇️ https://t.co/X2PkwYW2j0

[Deborah Brown @deblebrown]

Jordan’s draft cybercrime law would pave the way for an alarming surge in online censorship and undermine anonymity. It comes amid an intensifying crackdown on civic space

@smex @accessnow @hrw & partners call for it to be scrapped
https://t.co/YV4ea5TnFF

Great 🧵 by @jo_osa👇🏻

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

All 👀 are on the EU as it considers the AI Act, an attempt to regulate artificial intelligence.

The EU should do much more to prevent abusive and discriminatory surveillance.

[HRWTech @HRWTech]

Never too late to RT good news.

[Hye Jung Han @techchildrights]

📣Good news! One year after we .@HRW uncovered how gov't-authorized EdTech infringed on kids’ privacy during the pandemic, the .@FTC made history by suing one of these EdTech companies, Edmodo, for doing just that. #StudentsNotProducts
https://t.co/6EzIWqslFW

[Rasha Abdul-Rahim 🇵🇸 @Rasha_Abdul]

🚨 NEW: @AmnestyTech @amnesty investigation exposes how sophisticated surveillance network - incl. previously unreported facial recognition system “Red Wolf” - is used by the Israeli govt to supercharge segregation & automate apartheid against Palestinians. #AutomatedApartheid

[Fred Abrahams @fredabrahams]

Tik Tok's practices are highly problematic but banning it skirts the core issue. The US needs laws to protect privacy and demand transparency from all social media companies, regardless of where they're based.

[Maya Wang 王松蓮 @wang_maya]

This week, Members of Congress in the US will hold a hearing on Tiktok. @hrw wants the company's CEO to answer these questions: https://t.co/NNGCTGB9hW 1/7

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Digital Dehumanization Paves Way for Killer Robots https://t.co/noZuAV0ks3

[HRWTech @HRWTech]

The Indian government has taken a step to better protect the privacy of children. Proper data protection law still needed.

[Hye Jung Han @techchildrights]

🎉*good* news! As a result of our work and @internetfreedom's advocacy, the Indian gov't has moved to remedy its violation of kids' privacy.

https://t.co/SYqz2HIrfq

[Natalia Krapiva 👩🏻‍💻🕊 @natynettle]

Surprise, surprise!

As Twitter loses its last Russia experts, pro-Russian propaganda & bots proliferate on the platform.

Fake “anti-imperialists” are buying blue checks to spread Kremlin’s war propaganda with impunity

By @josephmenn @washingtonpost

https://t.co/qvJdqJVvRf

[Rasha Younes @Rasha__Younes]

When #LGBT people in #MENA are targeted online, their lives are often ruined.

New @hrw report documents how security forces across the Middle East and North Africa region are targeting #LGBT people based on their online activity on social media.
https://t.co/IQq9TD3jPN

[@frederike.bsky.social @F_Kaltheuner]

Congratulations to @AmnestyTech and the Security Lab team!