The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights
@audrights.bsky.social
Creating a future where everyone in the digital world can enjoy the right to safety, freedom & dignity. Started by Equality Now and Women Leading in AI. #DigitalRights
AUDRi.org
AUDRi.org
Last day of #RightsCon! Excited about future conversations and collaboration. Come to our booth and make sure we get your input about which #DigitalPrinciples matter most to your region and work, and find out more about how you can collaborate on our #DigitalRightsScorecard and more!
#Rightscon2025
#Rightscon2025
February 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Last day of #RightsCon! Excited about future conversations and collaboration. Come to our booth and make sure we get your input about which #DigitalPrinciples matter most to your region and work, and find out more about how you can collaborate on our #DigitalRightsScorecard and more!
#Rightscon2025
#Rightscon2025
Our @rightscon.org session “Survivor-Centred Solutions to AI-Facilitated GBV: A Global Roundtable Of Practitioners” has kicked off in Taipei! We’re exploring the gaps that exist in addressing #deepfakes and #GBV with a focus on survivor stories and perspectives. #Rightscon2025
February 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Our @rightscon.org session “Survivor-Centred Solutions to AI-Facilitated GBV: A Global Roundtable Of Practitioners” has kicked off in Taipei! We’re exploring the gaps that exist in addressing #deepfakes and #GBV with a focus on survivor stories and perspectives. #Rightscon2025
All #DigitalRights are essential, but which #DigitalPrinciples resonate most with your work and your region? Come find us at @rightscon.org ’s Community Village and let us know! Find out more about our digital principles here: lnkd.in/d5fZ9mvy
#RightsCon2025
#RightsCon2025
February 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
All #DigitalRights are essential, but which #DigitalPrinciples resonate most with your work and your region? Come find us at @rightscon.org ’s Community Village and let us know! Find out more about our digital principles here: lnkd.in/d5fZ9mvy
#RightsCon2025
#RightsCon2025
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And we're live! Ready for an epic #rightscon with friends and colleagues, old and new.
February 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
And we're live! Ready for an epic #rightscon with friends and colleagues, old and new.
We’re at #Rightscon! Looking forward to connecting with allies as partners in the Community Village 🖤
@rightscon.org @equalitynow.bsky.social
@rightscon.org @equalitynow.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
We’re at #Rightscon! Looking forward to connecting with allies as partners in the Community Village 🖤
@rightscon.org @equalitynow.bsky.social
@rightscon.org @equalitynow.bsky.social
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Shout out to Lina Khan's FTC and the amazing work they have been doing, summarized in this post. This what a functioning regulatory body looks like & what we should continue to hold as expectations even in the face of pressure to normalize anything less.
www.ftc.gov/policy/advoc...
www.ftc.gov/policy/advoc...
AI and the Risk of Consumer Harm
People often talk about “safety” when discussing the risks of AI causing harm. AI safety means different things to different people, and those looking for a definition here will be disappointed.
www.ftc.gov
January 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Shout out to Lina Khan's FTC and the amazing work they have been doing, summarized in this post. This what a functioning regulatory body looks like & what we should continue to hold as expectations even in the face of pressure to normalize anything less.
www.ftc.gov/policy/advoc...
www.ftc.gov/policy/advoc...
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UK Govt to make creating & sharing sexually explicit #deepfake images a criminal offense, explaining "the proliferation of these hyper-realistic images has grown at an alarming rate, causing devastating harm to victims, particularly women and girls who are often the target”
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The UK is going to make creating sexually explicit deepfakes a crime, the government has announced.
A new offence will make "it clear there is no excuse for creating a sexually explicit deepfake of someone without their consent"
(Annoucement at link below)
A new offence will make "it clear there is no excuse for creating a sexually explicit deepfake of someone without their consent"
(Annoucement at link below)
Government crackdown on explicit deepfakes
Predators who create sexually explicit ‘deepfakes’ could face prosecution as the Government bears down on vile online abuse.
www.gov.uk
January 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
UK Govt to make creating & sharing sexually explicit #deepfake images a criminal offense, explaining "the proliferation of these hyper-realistic images has grown at an alarming rate, causing devastating harm to victims, particularly women and girls who are often the target”
bsky.app/profile/matt...
bsky.app/profile/matt...
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I've spent the past year interviewing Hannah Byrne, a former Counterterrorism policy manager at Meta who quit the company after coming to believe she helping build a racial profiling censorship machine. She shares her story today for the first time.
theintercept.com/2024/12/04/m...
theintercept.com/2024/12/04/m...
She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook.
Hannah Byrne joined Facebook to combat far-right extremism. She’s now convinced the tech giant can’t be trusted with such power.
theintercept.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:21 PM
I've spent the past year interviewing Hannah Byrne, a former Counterterrorism policy manager at Meta who quit the company after coming to believe she helping build a racial profiling censorship machine. She shares her story today for the first time.
theintercept.com/2024/12/04/m...
theintercept.com/2024/12/04/m...
We can’t talk about the future of tech and digital space without talking about the impact on other issues and rights. Decision makers must take a holistic approach to development to ensure advancement does not come at the cost of human rights, and the climate.
#ICYMI: AI’s hunger for electric power is threatening U.S. #climate goals
Electric utility companies are building more power plants that will burn natural gas to meet demands of a data center construction boom.
#ClimateCrisis
Gift link: wapo.st/3ZjkB5Y
Electric utility companies are building more power plants that will burn natural gas to meet demands of a data center construction boom.
#ClimateCrisis
Gift link: wapo.st/3ZjkB5Y
AI’s hunger for electric power is threatening U.S. climate goals
The enormous electricity needs of artificial intelligence are driving plans for scores of new fossil fuel plants with decades of expected service life.
wapo.st
December 3, 2024 at 8:46 AM
We can’t talk about the future of tech and digital space without talking about the impact on other issues and rights. Decision makers must take a holistic approach to development to ensure advancement does not come at the cost of human rights, and the climate.
💻Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (#TFGBV) and other forms of online abuse cannot be overlooked or sidelined during #16DaysofActivism.
November 28, 2024 at 2:05 PM
💻Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (#TFGBV) and other forms of online abuse cannot be overlooked or sidelined during #16DaysofActivism.
"I'm encouraged by the energy of the #WomensRights movement, and the digital space is no different. If we're going to achieve what we can achieve with the #GDC, if we're going to make the progress we can make, we need to do it together." - Aurra Kawanzaruwa, AfriDigital Zimbabwe
#AfIGF
#AfIGF
November 22, 2024 at 8:58 AM
"I'm encouraged by the energy of the #WomensRights movement, and the digital space is no different. If we're going to achieve what we can achieve with the #GDC, if we're going to make the progress we can make, we need to do it together." - Aurra Kawanzaruwa, AfriDigital Zimbabwe
#AfIGF
#AfIGF
"The same urgency people have when they are demanding their rights to water or food is the urgency we need to see when it comes to people demanding their #DigitalRights". Hallima Nyota. Linda Data Kenya
#AfIGF #GDC
#AfIGF #GDC
November 22, 2024 at 8:53 AM
"The same urgency people have when they are demanding their rights to water or food is the urgency we need to see when it comes to people demanding their #DigitalRights". Hallima Nyota. Linda Data Kenya
#AfIGF #GDC
#AfIGF #GDC
"Gender is not properly mainstreamed in the #GDC. We see the word, there is reference to #TFGBV, there is reference to #GenderEquality, and the #DigitalDivide, but its is not embedded throughout the document. And there is a lack of mechanisms to counter #GBV." - Amanda Manyame, Equality Now. #AfIGF
November 22, 2024 at 8:40 AM
"Gender is not properly mainstreamed in the #GDC. We see the word, there is reference to #TFGBV, there is reference to #GenderEquality, and the #DigitalDivide, but its is not embedded throughout the document. And there is a lack of mechanisms to counter #GBV." - Amanda Manyame, Equality Now. #AfIGF
"We can't ignore the issue of #DigitalAccess. How will people understand the digital space, how will they recognise #TFGBV or #misinformation, if they don't have experiece in the space?" - Aurra Kawanzaruwa, AfriDigital Zimbabwe #AfIGF
November 22, 2024 at 8:36 AM
"We can't ignore the issue of #DigitalAccess. How will people understand the digital space, how will they recognise #TFGBV or #misinformation, if they don't have experiece in the space?" - Aurra Kawanzaruwa, AfriDigital Zimbabwe #AfIGF
"Young women stepping into leadership positions find themselves facing multiple digital challenges, such as doxxing, #deepfakes and #TFGBV. We need to look at ensuring online protections are ensured and implemented". Hallima Nyota, Linda Data Kenya. #AfIGF #GDC
November 22, 2024 at 8:27 AM
"Young women stepping into leadership positions find themselves facing multiple digital challenges, such as doxxing, #deepfakes and #TFGBV. We need to look at ensuring online protections are ensured and implemented". Hallima Nyota, Linda Data Kenya. #AfIGF #GDC
We're at #AfIGF discussing challenges to implementing the #GlobalDigitalCompact across Africa (and the globe), and how civil society can work together to ensure it protects #DigitalRights and creates an empowering digital ecosystem. From principles to action! Follow here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 22, 2024 at 8:21 AM
We're at #AfIGF discussing challenges to implementing the #GlobalDigitalCompact across Africa (and the globe), and how civil society can work together to ensure it protects #DigitalRights and creates an empowering digital ecosystem. From principles to action! Follow here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Hello from #Addis, where we are hosting a #AfIGF side-event tomorrow (22 November)! We will be exploring and co-creating responses to the #GlobalDigitalCompact with a focus on #DigitalRights in Africa. 08:00 UTC. Register here to join online: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 21, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Hello from #Addis, where we are hosting a #AfIGF side-event tomorrow (22 November)! We will be exploring and co-creating responses to the #GlobalDigitalCompact with a focus on #DigitalRights in Africa. 08:00 UTC. Register here to join online: zoom.us/webinar/regi...