On #PrimeDay, let's remember that Amazon: - has sold Rekognition to police - recently launched 2 more data collection tools: a surveillance drone & palm recognition scanner - is eyeing software that spies on union workers 2-day shipping is sweet, but digital rights are sweeter!

Just went for a run and decided to bring my ballot to drop off along the way, I saw two other runners doing the same thing! Early morning exercise + exercising your civic duty ❤️

Job Alert: BSR is hiring multiple associate positions. Tech and human rights (my team!) experience is of particular interest. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!! boards.greenhouse.io/bsr/jobs/49702…

Work with @Linds_Anders and I!!!

This is wild/wrong/horrible/etc... Billion-dollar companies like Follett and EBSCO are renting e-books to schools each year for $27 per book PER student. Librarians quoted in a 2019 study were spending as much as 42 percent of their annual budgets on e-books (pre-COVID)! 🤯😡

CPJ joins Access Now, Amnesty International, Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), Paradigm Initiative (PIN), Privacy International, RSF, and R3D in calling upon the U.S. Federal 9th Circuit Court to hold cybersurveillance company, NSO Group, accountable. accessnow.org/nso-group-what…

New report I coauthored on worker data protection in the garment supply chain! Our research sheds light on workplaces that are underreported when it comes to worker data protection. While these factories are low tech they sure collect a lot of data... bsr.org/en/our-insight…

Cash is a humanitarian no brainer. But what happens when cash goes digital, bringing with it the risks of exclusion, discrimination, or surveillance? New ICRC blog invites you to an honest conversation. Share thoughts here or work with me on a blog. blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy…

How can social media platforms respect the freedom of expression rights of users while protecting others from harm? Read our new BSR paper on how to apply a hr based approach to content governance in practice👏🏻Dunstan @Linds_Anders Joanna Lovatt bit.ly/3bPjkuS

🔔New from me: My 1st ever publication,& I’m excited to have it in Lawfare!The piece is on Facebook’s response to the Oversight Board’s policy recommendation: create a consolidated health misinfo policy. Facebook said it did this. I argue, not so much.1/8 lawfareblog.com/facebook-its-t…

Hell yeahhh 🙌🏻💃🏻

San Francisco Protest for Palestine: Saturday, May 15th at 2pm | 16th and Valencia Street | #SaveSheikhJarrah #GazaUnderAttack #Nakba73

We've just launched a $100K crowdfunding campaign UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Law to support Afghan journalists, lawyers, academics + activists who are trying to flee to safety. We're working w/ SJSU Human Rights Institute, Berkeley's Afghan Student Assoc., Scholars At Risk. crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209

Cautionary tale: Namecheap.com Slack & Intuit Mailchimp have pulled their service to civil society voices in #Russia & #Belarus. In no-doubt-well-meaning haste they're trying to impose costs on #Putin. But they skipped due diligence & are now silencing some of his fiercest critics🧵1/

So ladies, when do we go on strike.

Dear tech industry, Instead of having a race for who can put the highest numbers on (awkward) benchmarks, can we have a race on who can implement the best mechanisms for data consent?