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Marlena Wisniak
@marle.bsky.social
Lawyer(ish) fighting for human rights & AI accountability @ECNL
Activist by day, Dancer by night. Feminist & Dreamer always 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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NEW: Two weeks ago gov't IT experts warned us that the worst case scenario would be if DOGE got full admin access to agency systems. We can report at at least one agency DOGE has unfettered "god mode" access. Our latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
DOGE Has ‘God Mode’ Access to Government Data
The president’s special commission now has an unprecedented ability to view and manipulate information at many federal agencies.
www.theatlantic.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Join @ecnl.bsky.social at RightsCon in Taipei, largest global summit on human rights in the digital age with stellar colleagues leading and contributing to discussions on our brighter (digital) future @marle.bsky.social karolina iwanska, @therealfranfanu.bsky.social : ecnl.org/news/where-f...
Where to find ECNL at RightsCon 2025?
Join us at the 13th edition of RightsCon in Taipei, the largest global summit on human rights in the digital age.
ecnl.org
February 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Protesters gathered in front of a Tesla showroom on Van Ness Ave. Wednesday evening to protest Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.

📸: Dan Hernandez/The Chronicle
February 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Alphabet/Google today removed a section on diversity from its annual SEC filing. No more "we are committed to making DEI part of everything we do"

Also it broadened language on using contractors and replaced a reference to wanting "productive" employees to wanting ones who "perform at a high level"
February 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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New from 404 Media: Employees working at DOGE have been ordered to stop using Slack while government lawyers attempt to transition the agency to one that is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Means DOGE will be even more secretive and unaccountable www.404media.co/doge-employe...
DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA
Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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My latest.

As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.

I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.

Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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And hey, there's always a petition. sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...

The recording of the full Zoom call (a little over an hour) is on YouTube, if you want to see folks explain this all a lot better than I can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=55yf...
We Choose to Fight Action Call
YouTube video by Indivisible
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is.

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous
Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…
www.techdirt.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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In What’s in an Algorithm? Empowering Users Through Nutrition Labels for Social Media Recommender Systems, Luca Belli & @marle.bsky.social propose introducing labels for recommender systems that enable transparency, mitigate harm, and promote users' rights.
knightcolumbia.org/content/what...
What’s in an Algorithm? Empowering Users Through Nutrition Labels for Social Media Recommender Sys...
knightcolumbia.org
August 23, 2023 at 4:25 PM
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Signal president @meredithmeredith.bsky.social says the company will not comply with the proposed U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law requiring mandatory message scanning before

https://fortune.com/2023/07/13/signal-president-mass-surveillance-uk-law/
Signal president Meredith Whittaker rejects ‘mass surveillance’ U.K. law
Whittaker said Signal would not abide by the proposed law, and highlighted concerns about privacy and the need for tech leaders to take a stand against socially accepted surveillance.
fortune.com
July 15, 2023 at 11:45 AM
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Apple finally joins the fight against the scanning provisions UK's Online Safety Bill.

As noted encryption policy expert Lizzo would say: it's about damn time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66028773
June 27, 2023 at 10:24 PM
At ECNL we’re grateful to be part of the convo on civic freedoms & risk assessments re 🇪🇺Digital Services Act (DSA). Stay tuned for new work w/@accessnow

Let’s keep the engagement going,centering & elevating marginalized voices like racialized persons, women & LGBTQI! ✊✊🏾🏳️‍🌈
June 27, 2023 at 9:07 AM
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On Sunday Turkey votes in what is probably one of the most important election of the year. Together with Article19 we documented how Turkey‘s control over the internet threatens the election - and how social media platforms are simply not doing a good enough job 👇🏻
https://t.co/Bvx7MA222V
Turkey’s Control of the Internet Threatens Election
Voters in Turkey will head to the polls in a high-stakes election on May 14, 2023, amid concern that the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will exert considerable control over the digital ecosystem in an effort to undermine the outcome of the election.
t.co
May 13, 2023 at 7:35 AM