@rashaar.bsky.social
Palestinian🇵🇸 Independent expert on tech & human rights: Big Tech accountability, AI, surveillance, children’s digital rights. Anti-racist, decolonial approaches. Prev: ED @PeoplevsBigTech.bsky.social; Director @AmnestyTech. Board @FairSqProjects. My views.
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Today I’m attending the 4D Conference in Barcelona—feels nice to join a digital rights event without taking a flight for a change.
This morning starts strong with @rashaar.bsky.social presenting on the state of affairs of EU regulation and the road ahead to hold Big Tech accountable.
This morning starts strong with @rashaar.bsky.social presenting on the state of affairs of EU regulation and the road ahead to hold Big Tech accountable.
October 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Today I’m attending the 4D Conference in Barcelona—feels nice to join a digital rights event without taking a flight for a change.
This morning starts strong with @rashaar.bsky.social presenting on the state of affairs of EU regulation and the road ahead to hold Big Tech accountable.
This morning starts strong with @rashaar.bsky.social presenting on the state of affairs of EU regulation and the road ahead to hold Big Tech accountable.
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Today Simona Levi @xnet-x.net interviews @rashaar.bsky.social about surveillance technology sold by Israel:
🎙️ "Europe talks about ethics while buying technology for control and repression tested in contexts of systemic violence."
🎙️ "Europe talks about ethics while buying technology for control and repression tested in contexts of systemic violence."
Combat-Tested on the Palestine’ Population Technology Bargain
Rasha Abdul Rahim, Palestinian tech justice activist, interviewed by Simona Levi, founder of Xnet, Institute for Democratic Digitalisation.
xnet-x.net
October 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Today Simona Levi @xnet-x.net interviews @rashaar.bsky.social about surveillance technology sold by Israel:
🎙️ "Europe talks about ethics while buying technology for control and repression tested in contexts of systemic violence."
🎙️ "Europe talks about ethics while buying technology for control and repression tested in contexts of systemic violence."
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Simona Levi @xnet-x.net entrevista a @rashaar.bsky.social en @ctxt.es sobre tecnología de vigilancia que vende Israel probada en combate sobre población palestina.
"Estas herramientas asignan puntuaciones a individuos según su supuesta probabilidad de pertenecer a grupos militantes"
#Conferencia4D
"Estas herramientas asignan puntuaciones a individuos según su supuesta probabilidad de pertenecer a grupos militantes"
#Conferencia4D
October 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Simona Levi @xnet-x.net entrevista a @rashaar.bsky.social en @ctxt.es sobre tecnología de vigilancia que vende Israel probada en combate sobre población palestina.
"Estas herramientas asignan puntuaciones a individuos según su supuesta probabilidad de pertenecer a grupos militantes"
#Conferencia4D
"Estas herramientas asignan puntuaciones a individuos según su supuesta probabilidad de pertenecer a grupos militantes"
#Conferencia4D
$145 million won’t save Israel’s image. No amount of AI manipulation or influencer shilling or money can erase Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76 years of apartheid. Israel is a state built on stolen land and slaughter. The world isn’t just waking up. It’s wide awake, and sickened.
🟠 NEW (via Ynet):
Israel has earmarked over half a billion shekels ($145 million) in its 2025 budget to weaponize social media and ChatGPT in its largest U.S. propaganda push since it began carrying out a genocide in Gaza, according to newly filed FARA documents...
Israel has earmarked over half a billion shekels ($145 million) in its 2025 budget to weaponize social media and ChatGPT in its largest U.S. propaganda push since it began carrying out a genocide in Gaza, according to newly filed FARA documents...
October 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
$145 million won’t save Israel’s image. No amount of AI manipulation or influencer shilling or money can erase Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76 years of apartheid. Israel is a state built on stolen land and slaughter. The world isn’t just waking up. It’s wide awake, and sickened.
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⏳ Cuenta atrás para nuestra #Conferencia4D:
La cita imprescindible sobre #DigitalizaciónDemocrática
🎙️ Conferencia inaugural a cargo de @rashaar.bsky.social: activista palestina, estratega en tecnología, DDHH y justicia social.
📍 28/10 | BCN
🎟️ Gratis, con inscripción: 4d.cat/es/conferenc...
La cita imprescindible sobre #DigitalizaciónDemocrática
🎙️ Conferencia inaugural a cargo de @rashaar.bsky.social: activista palestina, estratega en tecnología, DDHH y justicia social.
📍 28/10 | BCN
🎟️ Gratis, con inscripción: 4d.cat/es/conferenc...
October 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
⏳ Cuenta atrás para nuestra #Conferencia4D:
La cita imprescindible sobre #DigitalizaciónDemocrática
🎙️ Conferencia inaugural a cargo de @rashaar.bsky.social: activista palestina, estratega en tecnología, DDHH y justicia social.
📍 28/10 | BCN
🎟️ Gratis, con inscripción: 4d.cat/es/conferenc...
La cita imprescindible sobre #DigitalizaciónDemocrática
🎙️ Conferencia inaugural a cargo de @rashaar.bsky.social: activista palestina, estratega en tecnología, DDHH y justicia social.
📍 28/10 | BCN
🎟️ Gratis, con inscripción: 4d.cat/es/conferenc...
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Belgian issued ID cards in Rwanda 1922-62:
ID'd cattle herding Tutsis for statistical monitoring of sleeping sickness (transmitted from cattle to herders
The ID cards were used by the hutus during the genocides in Rwanda to identify the Tutsis for slaughter 👇
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan...
ID'd cattle herding Tutsis for statistical monitoring of sleeping sickness (transmitted from cattle to herders
The ID cards were used by the hutus during the genocides in Rwanda to identify the Tutsis for slaughter 👇
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan...
Rwandan genocide - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
September 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Belgian issued ID cards in Rwanda 1922-62:
ID'd cattle herding Tutsis for statistical monitoring of sleeping sickness (transmitted from cattle to herders
The ID cards were used by the hutus during the genocides in Rwanda to identify the Tutsis for slaughter 👇
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan...
ID'd cattle herding Tutsis for statistical monitoring of sleeping sickness (transmitted from cattle to herders
The ID cards were used by the hutus during the genocides in Rwanda to identify the Tutsis for slaughter 👇
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan...
This is HUGE. @microsoft.com has terminated the Israeli military’s access to tech it used to surveil millions of Palestinian phone calls in Gaza/West Bank.
@awscloud.bsky.social, Google: it’s high time you did the same.
Well done @theguardian.com & +972 Mag www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
@awscloud.bsky.social, Google: it’s high time you did the same.
Well done @theguardian.com & +972 Mag www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This is HUGE. @microsoft.com has terminated the Israeli military’s access to tech it used to surveil millions of Palestinian phone calls in Gaza/West Bank.
@awscloud.bsky.social, Google: it’s high time you did the same.
Well done @theguardian.com & +972 Mag www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
@awscloud.bsky.social, Google: it’s high time you did the same.
Well done @theguardian.com & +972 Mag www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Al Jazeera reporting the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in Egypt.
September 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Al Jazeera reporting the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in Egypt.
A genocidal campaign by the Israeli regime, enabled by world powers. A grotesque unraveling of humanity, a bloodstain history will never wash clean.
July 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A genocidal campaign by the Israeli regime, enabled by world powers. A grotesque unraveling of humanity, a bloodstain history will never wash clean.
Do you know how it feels to witness your people being bombed, shot, starved and abused viciously and relentlessly for the past 21 months? To wake up and fall asleep to images of lifeless, bloodied babies, starving infants and the corpses of men and women strewn on the ground? 🧵
July 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Do you know how it feels to witness your people being bombed, shot, starved and abused viciously and relentlessly for the past 21 months? To wake up and fall asleep to images of lifeless, bloodied babies, starving infants and the corpses of men and women strewn on the ground? 🧵
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🧵Out today: A large majority of people in France, Germany and Spain back the EU to enforce the law on Big Tech - even if it risks relations with Trump.
New YouGov poll we commissioned @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social @wemoveeurope.bsky.social. peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
New YouGov poll we commissioned @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social @wemoveeurope.bsky.social. peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
July 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
🧵Out today: A large majority of people in France, Germany and Spain back the EU to enforce the law on Big Tech - even if it risks relations with Trump.
New YouGov poll we commissioned @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social @wemoveeurope.bsky.social. peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
New YouGov poll we commissioned @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social @wemoveeurope.bsky.social. peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
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🚨 NEW POLL: roughly TWICE as many people in France, Germany & Spain want the EU to break up Big Tech giants, as those who don't.
@ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech?
peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
@ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech?
peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
July 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
🚨 NEW POLL: roughly TWICE as many people in France, Germany & Spain want the EU to break up Big Tech giants, as those who don't.
@ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech?
peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
@ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech?
peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
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Leading legal experts and scholars have today written to FIFA’s Governance Audit and Compliance Committee (GAAC), in relation to the committee’s examination of a complaint relating to the holding of matches in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. fairsq.org/letter-fifa-...
June 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Leading legal experts and scholars have today written to FIFA’s Governance Audit and Compliance Committee (GAAC), in relation to the committee’s examination of a complaint relating to the holding of matches in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. fairsq.org/letter-fifa-...
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🚨 Today we're sending a loud message to the EU to stand up to the tech oligarchy and #BreakUpBigTech! 📣📣
We've delivered a petition from +115,000 people calling on @ec.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu to break up Google, ahead of its major ruling on Google's toxic online advertising monopoly.
We've delivered a petition from +115,000 people calling on @ec.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu to break up Google, ahead of its major ruling on Google's toxic online advertising monopoly.
June 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🚨 Today we're sending a loud message to the EU to stand up to the tech oligarchy and #BreakUpBigTech! 📣📣
We've delivered a petition from +115,000 people calling on @ec.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu to break up Google, ahead of its major ruling on Google's toxic online advertising monopoly.
We've delivered a petition from +115,000 people calling on @ec.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu to break up Google, ahead of its major ruling on Google's toxic online advertising monopoly.
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FIFA’s ongoing failure to enforce sanctions against the Israeli Football Association (IFA) despite long-standing and irrefutable evidence that the IFA is in violation of FIFA Statutes is further evidence of the organisation’s ad hoc and selective enforcement of its rules. fairsq.org/fifa-continu...
FIFA continues to stall and misrepresent over Israel sanctions
FIFA’s ongoing failure to enforce sanctions against the Israeli Football Association (IFA) despite long-standing and irrefutable evidence that the IFA is in violation of FIFA Statutes is further evide...
fairsq.org
May 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
FIFA’s ongoing failure to enforce sanctions against the Israeli Football Association (IFA) despite long-standing and irrefutable evidence that the IFA is in violation of FIFA Statutes is further evidence of the organisation’s ad hoc and selective enforcement of its rules. fairsq.org/fifa-continu...
Woah, did the UK, Canada and France just threaten sanctions on #Israel? #Gaza
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
May 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Woah, did the UK, Canada and France just threaten sanctions on #Israel? #Gaza
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Our new report now out finds serious shortcomings in the way in which Saudi Arabia investigates and verifies migrant worker deaths.
fairsq.org/saudi-arabia...
fairsq.org/saudi-arabia...
May 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Our new report now out finds serious shortcomings in the way in which Saudi Arabia investigates and verifies migrant worker deaths.
fairsq.org/saudi-arabia...
fairsq.org/saudi-arabia...
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FairSquare co director @lynchj.bsky.social in conversation with the BBC Today programme on our prediction of a surge in unexplained deaths in Saudi Arabia.
May 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
FairSquare co director @lynchj.bsky.social in conversation with the BBC Today programme on our prediction of a surge in unexplained deaths in Saudi Arabia.
Pretty incredible news here as a jury awards a massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group in a precedent-setting case.
Amazing to see reverberations of impact from the Pegasus Project years after we published 🥳🎉🎊
www.courthousenews.com/meta-wins-16...
Amazing to see reverberations of impact from the Pegasus Project years after we published 🥳🎉🎊
www.courthousenews.com/meta-wins-16...
Meta wins $168 million in damages from Israeli cyberintel firm in Whatsapp spyware scandal
The jury’s award represents a significant win for privacy advocates and critics of the well-known spyware vendor.
www.courthousenews.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Pretty incredible news here as a jury awards a massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group in a precedent-setting case.
Amazing to see reverberations of impact from the Pegasus Project years after we published 🥳🎉🎊
www.courthousenews.com/meta-wins-16...
Amazing to see reverberations of impact from the Pegasus Project years after we published 🥳🎉🎊
www.courthousenews.com/meta-wins-16...
🚨 Funding opportunity! The Spyware Accountability Initiative supports civil society organisations fighting spyware abuse, through regulation, litigation, research and investigation, and other means.
Learn more and apply by 13 June at stopspyware.fund/apply #SpywareAccountability #Funding
Learn more and apply by 13 June at stopspyware.fund/apply #SpywareAccountability #Funding
Apply for funding — Spyware Accountability Initiative
stopspyware.fund
May 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🚨 Funding opportunity! The Spyware Accountability Initiative supports civil society organisations fighting spyware abuse, through regulation, litigation, research and investigation, and other means.
Learn more and apply by 13 June at stopspyware.fund/apply #SpywareAccountability #Funding
Learn more and apply by 13 June at stopspyware.fund/apply #SpywareAccountability #Funding
“The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institutionalizing and legitimizing it.” Must read: mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...
Palestine beyond the colonial logic of international law
The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institut...
mondoweiss.net
April 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
“The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institutionalizing and legitimizing it.” Must read: mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...
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Tottenham UK
More ad activism.
More ad activism.
March 31, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Tottenham UK
More ad activism.
More ad activism.
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Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...
One mother’s win over Meta will change social media for everyone
Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta
www.thetimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...
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Join us for a convo about the future of social media – how open protocols & algorithmic pluralism can change things for the better! 🤓💪 Ft. @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @emilyliu.me @robin.berjon.com @sherifea.com
Register: smokesignal.events/did:plc:haqw...
Stream: streamyard.com/watch/uhdM7f...
Register: smokesignal.events/did:plc:haqw...
Stream: streamyard.com/watch/uhdM7f...
The Next Social Wave: Open, Competitive and User-Controlled
Starts at 03/21/25 04:00 pm CET. For years, social media has been dominated by a handful of companies, shaping how information flows and limiting innovation. The dangers have never been clearer.
But ...
smokesignal.events
March 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Join us for a convo about the future of social media – how open protocols & algorithmic pluralism can change things for the better! 🤓💪 Ft. @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @emilyliu.me @robin.berjon.com @sherifea.com
Register: smokesignal.events/did:plc:haqw...
Stream: streamyard.com/watch/uhdM7f...
Register: smokesignal.events/did:plc:haqw...
Stream: streamyard.com/watch/uhdM7f...