New UK Government still aiding same old war crimes. https://www.thenational.scot/news/24449199.calls-ban-israel-arms-exports-top-labour-ministers-comments/?s=09
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic. USA used fake accounts to spread disinformation putting lives at risk by dissuading the use of vaccines.
#disinformation
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/?s=09
Nothing To See Here!
Spy Chief joins the OpenAI Board
NSA Chief Spy Nakasone will join OpenAI's "Safety and Security Committee"
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24178079/openai-board-paul-nakasone-nsa-safety?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0dRgPDLJUFtE5ibc4gn59eC7kEmhwOTYOqNlhnu5nOf_RKAZZXhP4KqCw_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw
Digital Rights Jobs Board. Useful list of jobs in the digital rights sector. #DigitalRights
https://www.digitalrights.community/job-board?s=09
It seems that whenever PR companies put "smart" in front of a technology, substituting it for the word "surveillance" would be more honest? https://www.wlrn.org/development/2024-05-30/ai-cameras-west-palm-beach-privacy-florida?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR33mOccRZP7z5oi-OBv_rIWGPNbCsJ7PaDCcrlnffOmh5cArbSl5oiP6k8_aem_AbCwUisY0wDh99mAf1Kv2ygVn0S7_ngifBCxkCR3ZSXfAK_QafXJPACb53E_nAyLBiiJoGQg6qcKTXsCyZGj5JxW
Our new book is available open access to download: "Digital Disinformation in Africa". 10 African scholars document & analyse 10 digital disinformation campaigns in 10 African counties. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350319240
Data breach at facial recognition company reveals one of the hidden dangers of biometrics. Wired. #DigitalRights
https://www.wired.com/story/outabox-facial-recognition-breach/
In the run up to elections taking place around the world in 2024, Meta, Twitter, and YouTube have collectively removed 17 policies aimed at guarding against hate speech and disinformation.
https://time.com/6967334/ai-elections-disinformation-meta-tiktok/?s=09
Disinformation Deciphered: The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns. This resource is intended for researchers, journalists, technologists, policymakers, educators, and civil society organizers who want to learn about detecting, documenting, describing, and debunking misinformation, disinformation, and media manipulation.https://mediamanipulation.org/?fbclid=IwAR10W1D450dGohDX0RBGZTM98Tcj5XE_E1vsXMQk3se59euoWq3u9KV_hSg
Israel specifically targets IT experts, tech hubs and digital business incubators as part of its genocidal destruction of Gaza's cultural and commercial life. #DigitalRights
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6228?s=09
The film "Phantom Parrot" is a cautionary tale about British Digital Authoritarianism. Schedule 7 of the UK's 2000 Terrorism Act, gives the police powers to search people at UK borders, without needing reasonable grounds for suspicion of terrorism.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/12/phantom-parrot-review-cautionary-tale-of-state-surveillance-and-the-war-on-privacy
Wow! This short speech at the UN about Palestine and international law. It may come back to haunt all politicians if decisive action is not immediate.
https://x.com/ousmannoor/status/1760595667641057720?t=xB1bSAF5jR_xRgu24Qwozg&s=09
Disinformation Diarrhea from Israeli military causes US Intelligence to downgrade trust in its reliability, which is a passive aggressive way of saying they repeatedly lied about UNRWA staff, about bombing the hospital, about 40 beheaded babies, mass rape etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/22/us-intelligence-unrwa-hamas?s=09
New report from Access Now calls on Meta/ Facebook to stop their racially discriminatory practice of censoring Palestinian content on their social media sites. #DigitalRights
https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/meta-systematic-censorship-palestinian-voices/?s=09
How Israel uses the 4IL app and other 'digital diplomacy' techniques in Habara2.0 to distort public perception and discourse around Israeli war crimes, illegal settlements, apartheid and genocide.
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/the-art-of-deception-how-israel-uses-hasbara-to-whitewash-its-crimes-12766404
Facebook takes down hundreds of fake accounts created by Italian surveillance companies using AI-generated profile photos used to spy on journalists and activists.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/02/14/ai-spies-on-facebook-instagram-meta-warns/?s=09
Bodily #surveillance has exponentially increased leading to resistance and protest. New report unpacks body scanning tech.
https://everythingfine.org/en/berlin-09-2022/digital-panic-outer/bodily/?s=09
Disinformation laws across Sub-Saharan Africa explorable using this interactive tool.
https://lexota.org/