Netizen Rights

A project tracking human rights related issues in the digital world: access, diversity, free speech, innovation, privacy, security.

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

If you're a tech journalist, you should be digging into the story behind what's going on behind the curtain here. This is not appropriate for a company claiming to provide a secure messenger -- claims a large number of human rights defenders relied on -- and we need facts.

[IFEX @IFEX]

Pegasus is a spyware created for mobile devices which transforms a cellphone into a mobile surveillance station. It's very hard to detect, but if you think you've been targeted, here's what to do https://t.co/Qrdw4L24cF @SEENPM_org @FLIP_org @pen_int @netizenrights

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Governments claim they hack people to prevent "crime and terrorism," but @NYTimes finds even democracies are now routinely hacking "human rights activists, journalists, religious leaders and dissidents."

An important story, and perhaps a final warning: https://t.co/qN197SQj3i

[Freedom on the Net @freedomonthenet]

Internet freedom declined for the ninth consecutive year. What was once a liberating technology has become a conduit for surveillance & electoral manipulation.

Read now 👉 "Freedom on the Net 2019: The Crisis of Social Media" https://t.co/qoqRUSPhwG #FreedomOnTheNet

[Access Now @accessnow]

If you have trouble connecting to the internet in #HongKong, here’s a list of #VPN tools that can help. You can also contact our Digital Security Helpline for assistance. https://t.co/VIvaUELFOn #KeepItOn

[Access Now @accessnow]

People have a basic right to understand & help shape any digital identity program they are being enrolled into. As governments implement biometric identifiers around the world, we must first ask #WhyID? https://t.co/ceuyThZK48 #WorldBank #ID4D

[EDRi @edri]

EU #copyright dialogues: The next battleground to prevent #UploadFilters

https://t.co/UIxkf5KsRn

#FixCopyright #Article17 #StakeholderDialogues

@ellajakubowska1

[Privacy International @privacyint]

Much of this 'assistance' involves using aid money to fund surveillance, including wiretapping tech, IMSI Catchers, phone forensics, predictive policing, biometrics, drones etc.

See our analysis from earlier this year https://t.co/dDVnjcr7IB

[S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @STOPSpyingNY]

Terrified parents are sold this algorithmic snake oil on the promise it will keep their kids safe. It won’t. like the “miracle tonics” of old, school #FacialRecognition is proven to only do one thing: cost a fortune. We don’t need balance, we need a ban.
https://t.co/GpLUUoht1I

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

Speaking one's language is a human right. But 40% of the world’s 6,700 spoken languages are in danger of disappearing, and many of them belong to indigenous peoples. Learn how this trend can be reversed. https://t.co/gyG1XXzpbR

[Privacy International @privacyint]

A technical look at mobile phone extraction
https://t.co/VyU6QGEAAy
#mobileForensics
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[Privacy Project @PrivacyProject]

"We must ban facial recognition in both public and private sectors, before we grow so dependent on it that we accept its inevitable harms as necessary for 'progress,'" write @EvanSelinger and @hartzog https://t.co/YYbw29WFSU

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

IT'S HERE!!! The biggest story I’ve ever worked on. @techreview's very first interactive ever, which walks through a concrete example of AI bias, and why it’s so much more complicated than initially meets the eye. https://t.co/4eqXB3kpFF 1/

[Privacy International @privacyint]

NEW! We are launching a series on surveillance and welfare systems.
Read our press release: https://t.co/m95BKHxJN8
Exclusive research on the Aspen card: https://t.co/U0XJ4pkGyy
Our research framework: https://t.co/xnMkpsX0l0

[Access Now @accessnow]

What's the status of digital rights in India? ICYMI, @accessnow examined actions in Parliament over the past 5 years. As we prepare analysis of the current session, take a look back:
https://t.co/KYIxNb6cxH

[Netizen Rights @netizenrights]

Internet censorship in #Sudan: Rethinking laws and tactics that served an authoritarian regime https://t.co/IbtE63Y5Bz via @Advox #NetFreedom

[Liberation Technology @Liberationtech]

Machine learning can't flag false news, new studies show https://t.co/SJ5JvsH4yf

[Guardian news @guardiannews]

‘Digital welfare state’: Big Tech allowed to target and surveil the poor, UN warns https://t.co/cdx0f8CB7q

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

#Malta must establish accountability for murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Two years later, @AgnesCallamard, @davidakaye and @coe & @OSCE experts say authorities have failed to fully investigate the killing.

Learn more: https://t.co/8PgJUxFsTo

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

China's repressive regime cracks down even harder on anonymous Internet use and free speech: https://t.co/HDTKOpgKoG

I have taken Germany's mandatory SIM identification policy to court to defend our right to anonymous speech (case 50001/12).