Today, at the 2024 Surveillance and Society Conference in Ljubljan, Slovenia, PIN Executive Director, 'Gbénga Ṣẹ̀san, will announce the launch of our latest report, “The State of Deployment of Surveillance Technologies in Africa” and present its findings. It covers the Central

Mind the (digital rights) gap! More than 300 United Nations Security Council resolutions and not one addresses digital rights, even in conflict. Human rights apply online too — but you wouldn’t know it from these resolutions. We’ve got the receipts! Read more 🔽 accessnow.org/un-security-co…

NEW: Perplexity is ignoring the Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt), using a secret server to regurgitate news articles and investigations that take reporters years to create, often without giving us credit. W/ Tim Marchman wired.com/story/perplexi…

With the #EUCouncil set to vote on the "Chat Control" proposal, a reminder: It's impossible to create a technological system that can scan the contents of private electronic communication while preserving the right to privacy. signal.org/blog/pdfs/uplo…

📢Thrilled to finally introduce ✨the Data Workers' Inquiry ✨our 15 community researchers ✨and the repository! This is a long thread and a reminder to join an event that will challenge what you know about data work: data-workers.org/events/ July 8, 5 pm CET/11 am EST, 1/x🧵👇

U.S. based AI policy folks should be paying attention to this Supreme Court Chevron decision - most of the progress we have to date on any kind of AI oversight has been through the rulemaking authority of the agencies. I struggle to imagine a meaningful path forward without that.

#Albania has some 611,000 customers with broadband internet access. ONE Albania is the largest operator with some 135,000 customers, followed by Vodafone Albania. 🛜 What is the situation like after a merger of telecommunications companies? Ranking Digital Rights birn.eu.com/news-and-event…

#X #Suspended SFLC.in's Founder, MishiChoudhary's account on X has been suspended. X did not give any intimation about the suspension or provide any reasons for suspending the account. Presently, an appeal has been filed through X. SFLC.in urges

Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain is playing an enormous free outdoor show at the foot of Mont Royal, expecting upwards of 50,000 attendees, and there was just a constant stream of cyclists heading to it on all the bike routes nearby.

We're hiring Sanford School of Public Policy and I'm on the search committee! We're looking for an Associate/Full Professor of Technology Policy. Applications are due November 1. Please share widely! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28301

In unexpected good news, California’s AB 2013 GenAi Training Data Transparency bill PASSED and is now signed into law by Gavin Newsom! By 2026 CA will have proper information to what data genai models utilized for training! Here’s a breakdown of details: jdsupra.com/legalnews/cali…

i think if someone blames literally every issue—crime, inflation, housing, their preferred candidate losing—on immigrants, you should consider maybe they are not very astute about issues or causal relationships

Notable to me that every for-profit information hub is injecting AI into every corner of their services while the largest nonprofit information hub is fighting it off like their the Night's Watch

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Yet another poll showing it’s not just big rights holders who object to unlicensed gen AI training - it’s creators. 1,000 artists. 95% say training requires consent, 94% that it requires payment. Interestingly, 84% say they would license their work for AI training. Don’t let AI

Today, an Act harmonising transparency reporting rules under the DSA was adopted. Its uniform templates and reporting periods facilitate the comparability of platforms’ reports on content moderation systems and account terminations: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commis…

The thing about running to the right is that Republicans are better at being the right, so if people want to vote for the right they will vote for Republicans

New: An open-source project called DeFlock has mapped thousands of license plate reader surveillance cameras all over the world. See if they're in your city. They also need help mapping more 404media.co/the-open-sourc…

New Roosevelt Institute report on the uber-fication of nursing from Katie J. Wells out today. It’s horrifying: Gig nursing apps are charging workers exorbitant fees, forcing them to continue working when hurt on the job or for 20 hour shifts—withholding pay/future shifts if they don’t.

Big news for data protection and #AI. The EDPB has just published its eagerly awaited opinion on how the GDPR should apply to AI models. edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools…