Damini Satija
daminis.bsky.social
Damini Satija
@daminis.bsky.social
Tech, justice, human rights.
Director, Amnesty Tech. Head of Algorithmic Accountability Lab, Amnesty International USA.
New report from Amnesty Tech uncovering how the UK's Department of Work and Pensions has created an inaccessible social security system for people already at risk of poverty through the constant testing, rolling out, and rolling back of costly AI & other tech. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
UK: Government’s unchecked use of tech and AI systems leading to exclusion of people with disabilities and other marginalized groups
People with disabilities, those living in poverty or who have serious health conditions are being left in a bureaucratic limbo due to digital exclusion caused by the Department of Work and Pensions’ (...
www.amnesty.org
July 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Here's @amnesty.org and @hrw.org's response to the UK government's order to Apple to allow security authorities access to encrypted cloud data, an extremely harmful privacy move for users in the UK and worldwide. With more from @heiferbeefmountain.bsky.social www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
UK Encryption order threaten privacy rights
The United Kingdom government’s order to Apple to allow security authorities access to encrypted cloud data severely harms the privacy rights of users in the UK and worldwide.
www.amnesty.org
February 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Damini Satija, Director of Tech and Human Rights at Amnesty is at the Paris #AIActionSummit.

She's sharing three things we're asking decision makers to take heed of on AI harms and regulation 👇
February 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Mit @daminis.bsky.social ist @amnesty.org auf dem Pariser Paris 2025 AI Action Summit vertreten. Das Treffen ist die Gelegenheit, Fortschritte auf dem Weg zu einer menschenrechtskonformen KI-Regulierung auf globaler Ebene zu erzielen👇
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Global/France: AI Action Summit must meaningfully center binding and enforceable regulation to curb AI-driven harms
Ahead of the AI Action Summit, which begins on February 10, Amnesty International’s Director of the technology and human rights programme, Damini Satija, said:  “With global leaders and tech executive...
www.amnesty.org
February 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In the lead up to next week’s Paris AI Summit, @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social and I call on government leaders and tech executives to confront how AI and austerity, often coded as ‘government efficiency’ are driving inequality and entrenching corporate power.

www.techpolicy.press/ai-as-double...
AI as Double Speak for Austerity | TechPolicy.Press
Amnesty Tech's Likhita Banerji and Damini Satija say the Summit should prioritize people and communities over the whims of corporations.
www.techpolicy.press
February 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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📢 LAST CHANCE: Apply for @amnesty.org's Digital Forensic Fellowship!

Working with our team at the Security Lab, you'll learn the tech and investigative skills needed to expose how governments abuse advanced spyware and other surveillance tech against activists and civil society.
January 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🚨 NEW: Serbian authorities have used highly invasive spyware, including NSO Group’s Pegasus, as well as digital forensic tools to target activists & journalists during periods of detention or routine police interviews, @amnesty.org investigation reveals

securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/...
Serbia: Authorities using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists - Amnesty International Security Lab
Serbian police and intelligence authorities are using advanced phone spyware alongside Cellebrite mobile phone forensic products to unlawfully target journalists, environmental activists and other ind...
securitylab.amnesty.org
December 16, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Over the past year, Pakistan has teetered on the edge of digital oppression, and the proposed ban on ‘unregistered’ VPNs could be the tipping point toward becoming a fully mass-surveilled state.

Our team at Amnesty Tech write for the News International

www.thenews.com.pk/print/125643...
How Pakistan’s VPN ban undermines rights
Over the past year, Pakistan has teetered on the edge of digital oppression, and the proposed ban on ‘unregistered’ VPNs could be the tipping point toward becoming a fully...
www.thenews.com.pk
December 2, 2024 at 7:56 PM
🚨 We're calling on the Swedish authorities to discontinue a discriminatory AI system used to flag individuals for benefits fraud, based on a new investigation from Lighthouse Reports

More below w/ analysis from David Nolan, @amnesty.org

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Sweden: Authorities must discontinue discriminatory AI systems used by welfare agency
The use of opaque artificial intelligence (AI) systems by Försäkringskassan, Sweden’s Social Insurance Agency, must be immediately discontinued, Amnesty International said today, following an investig...
www.amnesty.org
November 27, 2024 at 9:31 PM