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New home of #DesignFromTheMargins methodology. We transform tech & advocate for #TechAccountability to advance justice & human rights.
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New to socials, not the work.
Website: www.de-center.net
Newsletter: https://the-decenter.ghost.io
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Apple launches a Digital ID and says it’ll be accepted by the TSA
Apple launches a Digital ID and says it’ll be accepted by the TSA
A new way to present your ID.
buff.ly
🚨 Do not hand your unlocked phone to law enforcement 🚨
Normalising the surrender of unlocked devices — esp at borders — is a dangerous precedent Apple is fore-fronting. Pushing an unlocked phone as standard-issue ID &commercialising #surveillance under the guise of “convenience”
#privacy #digitalID
Normalising the surrender of unlocked devices — esp at borders — is a dangerous precedent Apple is fore-fronting. Pushing an unlocked phone as standard-issue ID &commercialising #surveillance under the guise of “convenience”
#privacy #digitalID
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Digital surveillance in Kashmir acts as a character certificate — based on social media activities, journalism or human rights work, making its way into the files of the CID.
For women, the consequences (& harassment) are gendered. Read on GenderITorg: genderit.org/feminist-tal...
@apc.org #16Days
For women, the consequences (& harassment) are gendered. Read on GenderITorg: genderit.org/feminist-tal...
@apc.org #16Days
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Digital surveillance in Kashmir acts as a character certificate — based on social media activities, journalism or human rights work, making its way into the files of the CID.
For women, the consequences (& harassment) are gendered. Read on GenderITorg: genderit.org/feminist-tal...
@apc.org #16Days
For women, the consequences (& harassment) are gendered. Read on GenderITorg: genderit.org/feminist-tal...
@apc.org #16Days
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Mobile Fortify, ICE's face recognition app, threatens the rights of both migrants and U.S. citizens. DHS should shut it down, privacy and civil liberties organizations write.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Rights Organizations Demand Halt to Mobile Fortify, ICE's Handheld
Mobile Fortify, the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters, is an affront to the rights and
www.eff.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Mobile Fortify, ICE's face recognition app, threatens the rights of both migrants and U.S. citizens. DHS should shut it down, privacy and civil liberties organizations write.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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BREAKING: The death toll in Gaza since the October 10 ceasefire began has risen to 318 Palestinians after seven more bodies were brought to hospitals across the enclave in the past 48 hours.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7gsnkj
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7gsnkj
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
BREAKING: The death toll in Gaza since the October 10 ceasefire began has risen to 318 Palestinians after seven more bodies were brought to hospitals across the enclave in the past 48 hours.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7gsnkj
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7gsnkj
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How exactly does a kids online safety bill threaten queer and trans culture on the internet? Harvard Cyberlaw expert @esqueer.net breaks it down.
#KOSA #Censorship #Boston
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social
#KOSA #Censorship #Boston
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
How exactly does a kids online safety bill threaten queer and trans culture on the internet? Harvard Cyberlaw expert @esqueer.net breaks it down.
#KOSA #Censorship #Boston
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social
#KOSA #Censorship #Boston
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social
#TransDayofRemembrance
Incredibly important thread remembering some of the trans siblings whose lives were taken from us in 2024.
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living ✊🏽
#TDOR #Translivesmatter
Incredibly important thread remembering some of the trans siblings whose lives were taken from us in 2024.
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living ✊🏽
#TDOR #Translivesmatter
Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
November 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
#TransDayofRemembrance
Incredibly important thread remembering some of the trans siblings whose lives were taken from us in 2024.
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living ✊🏽
#TDOR #Translivesmatter
Incredibly important thread remembering some of the trans siblings whose lives were taken from us in 2024.
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living ✊🏽
#TDOR #Translivesmatter
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Harming trans kids - using art to capture the impacts of the Sussex ICB investigation on trans adolescents and families.
Please read and share.
The art is not mine - the artist wishes to remain anonymous.
growinguptransgender.com/2025/11/19/h...
Please read and share.
The art is not mine - the artist wishes to remain anonymous.
growinguptransgender.com/2025/11/19/h...
Harming trans kids – Using art to capture the impacts of the Sussex ICB investigation
When puberty blockers were banned in June 2024, the legislation included a clause stating that those currently on blockers would not be medically detransitioned, and could continue care if adopted …
growinguptransgender.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Harming trans kids - using art to capture the impacts of the Sussex ICB investigation on trans adolescents and families.
Please read and share.
The art is not mine - the artist wishes to remain anonymous.
growinguptransgender.com/2025/11/19/h...
Please read and share.
The art is not mine - the artist wishes to remain anonymous.
growinguptransgender.com/2025/11/19/h...
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“Many of us are really scared, but we’re still showing up.”
Nov. 16 was “the day the most immigrants were arrested in a single day” in North Carolina's history. As immigration raids are expected to escalate, locals are mobilizing to protect their neighbors @tinavasquez.bsky.social reports.
Nov. 16 was “the day the most immigrants were arrested in a single day” in North Carolina's history. As immigration raids are expected to escalate, locals are mobilizing to protect their neighbors @tinavasquez.bsky.social reports.
North Carolina immigration raids expected to escalate
As the impacts of the raids quickly ripple outward from Charlotte, North Carolinians are mobilizing to stem enforcement operations in their communities
prismreports.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“Many of us are really scared, but we’re still showing up.”
Nov. 16 was “the day the most immigrants were arrested in a single day” in North Carolina's history. As immigration raids are expected to escalate, locals are mobilizing to protect their neighbors @tinavasquez.bsky.social reports.
Nov. 16 was “the day the most immigrants were arrested in a single day” in North Carolina's history. As immigration raids are expected to escalate, locals are mobilizing to protect their neighbors @tinavasquez.bsky.social reports.
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just say it, reporters, it's not hard: '...the trump administration's open threats to use military force against a state that has not attacked it are widely seen by experts as illegal under international law...' there is very little to debate about that.
The country's largest aircraft carrier is expected to join thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force. n.pr/47XHvV3
U.S. official says the 'table is being set' for possible military action against Venezuela
The country's largest aircraft carrier is expected to join thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
just say it, reporters, it's not hard: '...the trump administration's open threats to use military force against a state that has not attacked it are widely seen by experts as illegal under international law...' there is very little to debate about that.
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You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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Current situation in Sudan continues to be catastrophic. The #queer community in #Sudan face multi-layer harms.
A dedication from one of the Sudanese researchers from our 2024 report found here: www.article19.org/queer-resist...
A dedication from one of the Sudanese researchers from our 2024 report found here: www.article19.org/queer-resist...
January 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Current situation in Sudan continues to be catastrophic. The #queer community in #Sudan face multi-layer harms.
A dedication from one of the Sudanese researchers from our 2024 report found here: www.article19.org/queer-resist...
A dedication from one of the Sudanese researchers from our 2024 report found here: www.article19.org/queer-resist...
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and design them to be used by the most at risk people in society, it will make your app better for everyone including those who need it the most without singling them out. Afsaneh Rigot talks about this in her excellent paper "Design from the Margins" (2/2) www.de-center.net/what-is-desi...
What is Design from the Margins? | — The De|Center
Design From the Margins (DFM) is a design methodology for more just, equitable, safer tech that centers the most impacted and decentered users, from ideation to production. DFM is grounded in the know...
www.de-center.net
September 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
and design them to be used by the most at risk people in society, it will make your app better for everyone including those who need it the most without singling them out. Afsaneh Rigot talks about this in her excellent paper "Design from the Margins" (2/2) www.de-center.net/what-is-desi...
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“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
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Keep talking about Sudan.
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Keep talking about Sudan.
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
Umm… no thanks.
Secure and private for who, @appleinsider.com?
Not for the millions living under expanding authoritarian surveillance. Another case of convenience masking #surveillance creep.
Secure and private for who, @appleinsider.com?
Not for the millions living under expanding authoritarian surveillance. Another case of convenience masking #surveillance creep.
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Umm… no thanks.
Secure and private for who, @appleinsider.com?
Not for the millions living under expanding authoritarian surveillance. Another case of convenience masking #surveillance creep.
Secure and private for who, @appleinsider.com?
Not for the millions living under expanding authoritarian surveillance. Another case of convenience masking #surveillance creep.
🚨 Do not hand your unlocked phone to law enforcement 🚨
Normalising the surrender of unlocked devices — esp at borders — is a dangerous precedent Apple is fore-fronting. Pushing an unlocked phone as standard-issue ID &commercialising #surveillance under the guise of “convenience”
#privacy #digitalID
Normalising the surrender of unlocked devices — esp at borders — is a dangerous precedent Apple is fore-fronting. Pushing an unlocked phone as standard-issue ID &commercialising #surveillance under the guise of “convenience”
#privacy #digitalID
Apple launches a Digital ID and says it’ll be accepted by the TSA
Apple launches a Digital ID and says it’ll be accepted by the TSA
A new way to present your ID.
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🚨 Do not hand your unlocked phone to law enforcement 🚨
Normalising the surrender of unlocked devices — esp at borders — is a dangerous precedent Apple is fore-fronting. Pushing an unlocked phone as standard-issue ID &commercialising #surveillance under the guise of “convenience”
#privacy #digitalID
Normalising the surrender of unlocked devices — esp at borders — is a dangerous precedent Apple is fore-fronting. Pushing an unlocked phone as standard-issue ID &commercialising #surveillance under the guise of “convenience”
#privacy #digitalID
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this is a big and extremely dangerous deal. pegasus has been a tool of repression around the world.
is this the pivot to attacking american journalists, lawyers, civil society activists?
is this the pivot to attacking american journalists, lawyers, civil society activists?
UPDATE: NSO just hired former Trump ambassador to Israel.
They're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America.
Your rights and freedoms are in danger.
NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/
They're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America.
Your rights and freedoms are in danger.
NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
this is a big and extremely dangerous deal. pegasus has been a tool of repression around the world.
is this the pivot to attacking american journalists, lawyers, civil society activists?
is this the pivot to attacking american journalists, lawyers, civil society activists?
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Sub-Saharan African migrants in Tunisia are being relocated to rural areas where internet access is weak and online hate speech flourishes with impunity.
SMEX and the International Justice Clinic expose how, under international law, Tunisia’s actions violate its obligations to protect its migrants
SMEX and the International Justice Clinic expose how, under international law, Tunisia’s actions violate its obligations to protect its migrants
Pushed to the Outskirts: Tunisia Must Actively Protect the Digital Rights of sub-Saharan African migrants in Rural Areas, Cultivate a Culture of Digital Literacy, and Combat Online Hate Speech to Fulfill its Responsibilities Under CERD – International Justice Clinic
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ijclinic.law.uci.edu
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Sub-Saharan African migrants in Tunisia are being relocated to rural areas where internet access is weak and online hate speech flourishes with impunity.
SMEX and the International Justice Clinic expose how, under international law, Tunisia’s actions violate its obligations to protect its migrants
SMEX and the International Justice Clinic expose how, under international law, Tunisia’s actions violate its obligations to protect its migrants
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Surprise #MozFest panel -- we're having a session on the main stage called "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice" at 12:15 PM CET, right after @xychelsea.tv's talk.
Featuring Veronyka Gimenes, @schock.cc, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, and myself.
www.mozillafestival.org/en/
Featuring Veronyka Gimenes, @schock.cc, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, and myself.
www.mozillafestival.org/en/
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Surprise #MozFest panel -- we're having a session on the main stage called "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice" at 12:15 PM CET, right after @xychelsea.tv's talk.
Featuring Veronyka Gimenes, @schock.cc, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, and myself.
www.mozillafestival.org/en/
Featuring Veronyka Gimenes, @schock.cc, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, and myself.
www.mozillafestival.org/en/
We're here at #mozfest and will be speaking about biometrics and the use of bodies as passwords on Sunday Nov. 9, 2:45-3:45 GMT+1. "“FaceID(ictator): Authoritarians Love Biometrics. We Don’t.” We look forward to collaborating with many of you. #designfromthemargins #dfm
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We're here at #mozfest and will be speaking about biometrics and the use of bodies as passwords on Sunday Nov. 9, 2:45-3:45 GMT+1. "“FaceID(ictator): Authoritarians Love Biometrics. We Don’t.” We look forward to collaborating with many of you. #designfromthemargins #dfm
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“In an era of automated bullshit,” Dr. @ruha9.bsky.social asks us to tell the truth! Starting with the fact that innovation often depends on exploitation… so social progress can never be taken for granted.
What are we building? For whom? With whom?
#MozFest
What are we building? For whom? With whom?
#MozFest
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
“In an era of automated bullshit,” Dr. @ruha9.bsky.social asks us to tell the truth! Starting with the fact that innovation often depends on exploitation… so social progress can never be taken for granted.
What are we building? For whom? With whom?
#MozFest
What are we building? For whom? With whom?
#MozFest
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Another excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Red Schulte’s letter speaks to those organizing outside the law—a place more people of conscience will find themselves as authoritarianism tightens its grip.
When Everything Is Criminalized, We Must Unlearn the Language of “Innocence”
No one should be caged, tortured, detained, or deported by the state — all carceral violence is done wrongfully.
truthout.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Another excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Red Schulte’s letter speaks to those organizing outside the law—a place more people of conscience will find themselves as authoritarianism tightens its grip.
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Cheney is dead, but the horrible architecture he wrought is in Trump's hands.
If you are a technologist or you work in tech policy, I challenge you to commit to building movement relationships and fighting the structures that have enabled men like them.
www.techpolicy.press/its-time-for...
If you are a technologist or you work in tech policy, I challenge you to commit to building movement relationships and fighting the structures that have enabled men like them.
www.techpolicy.press/its-time-for...
It’s Time for Technologists and Tech Policy Advocates to Get Radical in Fight Against Authoritarianism | TechPolicy.Press
Dia Kayyali says in the face of the authoritarian threat, the fight for justice and rights for all is systemic, and requires creativity and coordination.
www.techpolicy.press
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Cheney is dead, but the horrible architecture he wrought is in Trump's hands.
If you are a technologist or you work in tech policy, I challenge you to commit to building movement relationships and fighting the structures that have enabled men like them.
www.techpolicy.press/its-time-for...
If you are a technologist or you work in tech policy, I challenge you to commit to building movement relationships and fighting the structures that have enabled men like them.
www.techpolicy.press/its-time-for...
We’re seeing a growing trend: biometric locks being added to privacy tech and features, framed as “extra security”
Join our #MozFest session where we’ll push back, showing how this actually makes tech less private & less secure.
FaceID(ictator): Authoritarians Love Biometrics. We Don’t.
mzf.st/142
Join our #MozFest session where we’ll push back, showing how this actually makes tech less private & less secure.
FaceID(ictator): Authoritarians Love Biometrics. We Don’t.
mzf.st/142
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
We’re seeing a growing trend: biometric locks being added to privacy tech and features, framed as “extra security”
Join our #MozFest session where we’ll push back, showing how this actually makes tech less private & less secure.
FaceID(ictator): Authoritarians Love Biometrics. We Don’t.
mzf.st/142
Join our #MozFest session where we’ll push back, showing how this actually makes tech less private & less secure.
FaceID(ictator): Authoritarians Love Biometrics. We Don’t.
mzf.st/142