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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Feb 27

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

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Feb 26

If the creation and dissemination of #IBSA is criminalised then platforms have to put safeguards in place and ensure all their content is created consensually. - Hate Aid #TFGBV #deepfakes #Rightscon2025

The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Feb 26

“What we need is criminalisation of the dissemination and creation of internet-based abuse. Then illegal content will have to be removed immediately and if it isn’t you can go to court. Which gives more options and rights to survivors. - Hate Aid #TFGBV #Rightscon2025

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Feb 26

“We need to expand our view to not just supporting survivors but to look at prevention as well” - SVPA #TFGBV #deepfakes #Rightscon2025

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Feb 26

We need to move towards looking at three levels of prevention - individual (values and community), institutional (internal policy and consequences) and systemic (tech accountability). We also need research to document the magnitude of the problem. #deepfakes #TFGBV #Rightscon2025

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Feb 26

“At the global level we don’t have good examples from the global north. In #Pakistan last year there was an influx of #deepfakes targeting woman political leaders.” There is also a continuum of online to offline abuse. #TFGBV #Rightscon2025

The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Feb 26

“In #SouthAsia the governments has criminalised #TFGBV but they don’t understand how to address it. They don’t understand the virality and how fast it speeds. They on existing laws that are poorly drafted.” @digitalrightspk.bsky.social

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Feb 26

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

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Feb 25

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

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Feb 25

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Feb 24

Already excited about what we’ve seen here at #RightsCon: global representation, strong female leadership, stories of the urgency of universal #DigitalRights for freedom and democracy in #Taiwan, #Gaza and elsewhere.

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Venessa Paech @venessap.bsky.social · Feb 24

And we're live! Ready for an epic #rightscon with friends and colleagues, old and new.

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Feb 24

Come say hi at our booth! 💚

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Feb 24

We’re at #Rightscon! Looking forward to connecting with allies as partners in the Community Village 🖤
@rightscon.org @equalitynow.bsky.social

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Jan 6

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...

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

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Equality Now @equalitynow.bsky.social · Jan 7

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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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · Jan 7

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)

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

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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · Dec 4

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...

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

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Dec 3

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.

djbelieve @djbelieve.bsky.social · Dec 2

#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

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

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Nov 28

Read more:
📗Doxxing report: lnkd.in/d4YEkQCB
📘Deepfakes report: lnkd.in/d2pcAZtH

#16DaysOfActivism
#TFGBV

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Nov 28

🌎🌍🌏Our recent reports into #Deepfakes and #Doxxing, both forms of online abuse which disproportionately target women and girls, found that neither is explicitly referenced or addresses in any laws in any of the jurisdictions we surveyed in our research. #16Days

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Nov 28

💻Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (#TFGBV) and other forms of online abuse cannot be overlooked or sidelined during #16DaysofActivism.

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Nov 22

"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

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Nov 22

"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

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Nov 22

"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

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The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights @audrights.bsky.social · Nov 22

"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

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