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The results of our Digital Privacy and Security Survey are now available! This research helps us create informed, community first and #privacy focused software. A huge thanks to our community and @Internews for making this research possible!
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Interoperability will be key to build a public digital space. What does interoperability means?
Read @SharedDigitalEU on building an Interoperable Public-Civic Ecosystem: https://t.co/nqfdTBvn7l
NEW REPORT
Pandemic Privacy: A preliminary analysis of collection technologies, data collection laws, and legislative reform during COVID-19 #cdnpoli https://t.co/gQ17cDiFEg
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"These companies have never been interested in opening your mail, they've been interested in shaping your world."
@mikarv, Lecturer in Digital Rights & Regulation at @UCLLaws, explains how the "walled garden" works in tech and how companies track and target users
#Newsnight
Came across this indigenous proverb today, I think it’s a beautiful reminder:
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”
At some point we will need to reckon with the fact that we want more and better content moderation, but not by AI because the machines are stupid and biased, and not by humans because it is scarring and creates lasting harms...
At @OpenPriv we've been conducting open research and building free software for over 3 years now - creating global impact on a shoestring budget.
Another world is possible, but it means leaving behind the old guard, and building it ourselves.
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Interested in building your #digitalsecurity toolbox? We’re recruiting participants for a new digital security #fellowship in Central Europe. Apply by April 30: https://t.co/dKoAgmI0Nh #InternewsJSF
Taking a break from analyzing dozens of abusive #cybercrime laws to lament that the Facebook data leak will likely legitimize efforts to use cybercrime as an excuse to crack down on rights, when what’s really needed is enforcement of data protection laws, data minimization, etc🤦🏻♀️
A recent short article on this question is this one here: https://t.co/kIv5B96eTU
@_HannahRitchie looks at the long history of expanding agricultral land at the cost of deforestation and asks how we can bring it to an end in our lifetime.
Today marks 10 years since @JRart first launched his Inside Out Project—an international participatory art project that gives communities the opportunity to make a statement by displaying large-scale black and white portraits in public spaces. https://t.co/vBYjRXMZrM
But I’ve always felt that if you have a platform and any sort of power it’s your duty to use that in service of others and to tell the truth. So I felt the need to speak up so that they tell the whole of it.
Virtually every aspect of the COVID vaccine, from the lipid nanoparticles to the mRNA technology, was developed in academic labs using public funds. But in the public's mind the credit goes to companies like Moderna/Pfizer. This is a missed opportunity to celebrate basic research