'The legal and political environment in Africa is becoming repressive against press freedom and freedom of expression.'

Learn more in our latest Speaking Freely interview featuring Obioma Okonkwo! Read her interview and more, here: eff.org/pages/speaking…

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🚨BREAKING: the EU Commission initiates official proceedings against TikTok under the Digital Services Act (DSA). This is what you need to know:

➡️The proceedings focus on TikTok Lite's “Task and Reward Program,” which allows users to earn points while performing certain tasks…

Whose agenda is being served by the dynamics around AI African data extraction? dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0…

New from 404 Media: Instagram is advertising nonconsensual AI nude apps. Shows that these sorts of tools—which are being actively used inside schools to harass/target people—are not hidden in the corners of the internet. It's right there, on Instagram 404media.co/instagram-adve…

🚨 Have you heard about the Spy Bill? The General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill (GILAB) is stirring up concern! Join us on the latest episode of #JustUsandtheClimate with Intelwatch' Heidi Swart and the CJC's Busi as we unpack why.

🎧: bit.ly/3W4JRwY

COVID-19: 'The Chinese government froze meaningful domestic and international efforts to trace the virus from the first weeks of the outbreak, despite statements supporting open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation found.'

COVID-19: How the search for the pandemic's origins turned poisonous | AP News apnews.com/article/china-…

Calling all artists. This is making the rounds. There is hope for us yet!

#Jamaica parliament soon to receive draft #digitalID regulation for scrutiny
biometricupdate.com/202404/jamaica…

Net neutrality means that ISPs don’t get to speed up or slow down your web traffic based on what site you’re visiting. The FCC understood this in 2015, yet left the door open for the creation of fast lanes in their new rules. Tell them to fix this mistake. eff.org/deeplinks/2024…

So many people are confused about the relation between human cognitive errors and LLM hallucinations that I wrote this short explainer:

Humans say things that aren't true for many different reasons
• Sometimes they lie
• Sometimes they misremember things
• Sometimes they fail…

'Another critical figure is Sheikh Tahnoon, the UAE’s national security adviser who also oversees a business empire and Abu Dhabi’s biggest sovereign wealth fund (..) was photographed presiding over the deal-signing with Microsoft'
geopolitical AI
ft.com/content/843796… via @ft

🚨 Excellent AI paper alert: 'Can AI Standards Have Politics?' by Alicia Solow-Niederman. A must-read for everyone interested in AI policy, governance & regulation:

'The very formation of standards is political because the standards development and diffusion process reflects a particular…

Online influence and disinformation – preparing for South Africa’s polls | ISS Africa issafrica.org/iss-today/onli…

2023 report - FBI improperly used Section 702 to search names of persons suspected of being on Capitol grounds during the January 6, 2021 riot, Black Lives Matters protestors, victims of crime and their families and donors to one congressional campaign. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Dear Rishi Sunak you’ve sent this letter to my home, addressed to me, my wife & my son & also sent a questionnaire to each of us.

There are only two questions I am interested in:
(1) Do you want a #GeneralElectionN0W ? Answer - YES
(2) Will you vote Tory? Answer - NO.

CBP awards Sentrillion $11.7M for surveillance systems

#biometrics #surveillance #CBP

biometricupdate.com/202404/cbp-awa…

LexisNexis Hit With Privacy Class Action Over Alleged Use of PII to 'Turn a Profit' law.com/legaltechnews/…

Check it. Internet users are getting younger; now the UK is weighing up if AI can help protect them tcrn.ch/3xScza4 via @techcrunch #tech #digital #data #privacy