today, new rules to greatly increase web and app-based accessibility under Title II of the #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct were finalized. the Internet is for everyone - and these rules help ensure that people with disabilities have greater access to it.

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If you're in DC today, please join Center for Democracy & Technology's Spring Fling! A celebration for AI & privacy leaders alongside IAPP's #GlobalPrivacySummit #GPS24 IAPP

“Ariana Aboulafia says the executive order was a powerful first step toward making #AI systems less ableist. ‘Inclusion of disability in these conversations about technology [and] recognition of how technology can impact disabled people’ is key, she says. But there’s more to do.”

CDT’s Disability Rights in Tech Policy Policy Counsel Ariana Aboulafia ft. in Fast Company, highlighting how #AI can have unintended bias against people with disabilities. fastcompany.com/91054056/how-w…

these shows “…tend to emphasize their hollow central messaging… as if to prove a point: people with disabilities can date and find love too. In doing so, they inadvertently otherize the community.” great piece from IndieWire, with quotes from my friend Haley Moss!

glad to be quoted in this important piece from Fast Company on reducing #disability bias in algorithmic systems... check it out!

AI's inherent biases often go unaddressed, which can be a significant problem for people with disabilities.

Fast Company examines the issue, citing recent research from CSRAI Affiliates Pranav Venkit, Mukund Srinath, and Shomir Wilson.

Read more ➡️ fastcompany.com/91054056/how-w…

Excited to share that I’ve officially joined Human Rights Campaign as Senior Fellow, Tech Advocacy & LGBTQ+ Inclusion! I look forward to working with this brilliant team to expand HRC’s tech policy presence and champion LGBTQ+ inclusion in online spaces and across emerging tech. 👩🏽‍💻🏳️‍🌈

All’s fair in love and poetry... New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Out April 19 🤍

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📷: Beth Garrabrant

Alums Belle Torek and Ariana Aboulafia, both J.D. '20 & former legal fellows of Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, co-authored an op-ed, highlighting the growing trend and legal hurdles of nonconsensual pornography in light of new #deepfake images of #TaylorSwift . techpolicy.press/taylor-swift-s…

Ariana Aboulafia & Belle Torek, two outstanding former CCRI legal fellows, wrote powerfully about the harms of ' #deepfakes and what we can do about it. Read an inspiring quote below and the complete piece here. #TaylorSwiftAl #swifties 1/4
techpolicy.press/taylor-swift-s…

Terrific piece by former Cyber Civil Rights Initiative Legal Fellows Ariana Aboulafia & Belle Torek on #TaylorSwiftAl & the harms of #deepfake abuse. techpolicy.press/taylor-swift-s…

it’s me, hi, I’m the co-author, it’s me 👋

Belle Torek and I published this piece in Tech Policy Press about the #TaylorSwiftAl deepfakes, and how #Swifties could be involved in AI regulation.

(it may or may not contain 13 references to TSwift songs) 🎶

techpolicy.press/taylor-swift-s…

This week at CITAP:

-We embraced serendipity in career journeys
-A new publication from Ariana Aboulafia on internet privacy as a disability rights issue
-A alice e. marwick paper from 2021 was featured in a Vox article about political fandom

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Center for Democracy & Technology centers #DisabilityRights in our work on data & personal privacy – our policy counsel Ariana Aboulafia recently wrote about disability-related data disclosure, and the importance of #privacy , in Tech Policy Press: techpolicy.press/internet-priva…

ICYMI: Center for Democracy & Technology's Ariana Aboulafia penned a @TechPolicyPress piece urging advocates for #DisabilityRights & #DisabilityJustice to prioritize the protection of personal and #DigitalPrivacy as a central issue, and organize towards solutions:

techpolicy.press/internet-priva…

In many situations, people with disabilities may have to share private health data to access certain benefits.

Ariana Aboulafia explores why recognising privacy as a disability rights issue is vital for an inclusive future.

Read more in Tech Policy Press👇techpolicy.press/internet-priva…

Discussions over internet privacy often ignore important disability rights issues. ADPPA is a chance to protect health data at a federal level.
Center for Democracy & Technology Tech Policy Press techpolicy.press/internet-priva…

'No disabled person should have to choose between accessing technologies that help them lead fulfilling, self-directed lives and protecting their personal information.' Another great piece by Center for Democracy & Technology's Ariana Aboulafia, this time in Tech Policy Press techpolicy.press/internet-priva…

fresh off the (tech policy) presses -- my newest, where I discuss the importance of prioritizing digital privacy as a #DisabilityRights issue, particularly considering the sensitive data that disabled folks must disclose.

Tech Policy Press Center for Democracy & Technology

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