E2E encryption should be baked into Zoom's product design. Data protection shouldn't be an "add on" for sale

New piece from me in the Guardian: the Apple-Google contact tracing API (not app, headline not mine...) gives us all a preview into how even privacy enhancing technologies can be used to wield power, why they need governance, and how we might do it. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Contrast Norwegian DPA's reaction to the IB fiasco against ICO's statement to the #AlevelResults fiasco: Norwegian DPA 💯: datatilsynet.no/en/news/2020/t… ICO 🙊🙈: ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…

Apple Facebook Alongside peers Access Now, EFF, NHMC, Open Tech Institute, and @openmicmedia.bsky.social, we urge Apple to implement these features with no further delay. rankingdigitalrights.org/2020/10/06/app…

Breaching purpose limitation and trust for commercial opportunism. This type of behavior is unacceptable yet unsurprising. Glad the ICO is investigating.

"We don't need more AI ethics" say EDRi & Access Now responding to the European Parliament "framework for ethical aspects of AI". Instead we need LAWS enabling strong governance & concrete fundamental rights protections. edri.org/our-work/atten…

China’s #MeToo movement has a twist—more often than not, it’s the accuser who gets sued. nybooks.com/daily/2021/01/…

Forget Tesla: Millions of people in China are embracing tiny, off-brand competitors. My piece for Rest of World restofworld.org/2021/tesla-vs-…

HAPPENING TOMORROW! World Bank Live ▶ #WDR2021 event: Join @DavidMalpassWBG, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, Microsoft President Brad Smith and WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as they talk about #Data's potential to improve lives. At 10:30–11:30am EDT. wrld.bg/AZQ650DZBzR

Signal tried to use Instagram ads to display the data Facebook collects about you and sells access to. Facebook wasn't into the idea, and shut down our account instead: signal.org/blog/the-insta…

Where were you when #RightsCon started in 2011? 🌍 A lot has changed in a decade of convening for human rights in the digital age – but our community is still growing, gathering, and looking ahead. Join us from June 7-11 for our 10th anniversary summit: rightscon.org/ticket-2021

Another great piece by Lavender Au - weaving very human dynamics seamlessly into reporting on a complex political issue. A must read for anyone following the HK protests.