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Boudewijn van Eerd
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Program Manager Informed Societies @ Adessium Foundation.
Digital rights & tech policy
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I hear there’s a new wave of Twitter people headed this way. I know we don’t talk about them much anymore, but I made a starter pack ages ago you might like if you’re into critical tech work and Luddites.
October 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Technologies at war: The role of tech companies & the EU in facilitating war crimes and genocide in Gaza

Organised by @accessnow.org with Daniel Leufer (moderator), Marwa Fatafta, Sarah Chander, @docmattmoudi.bsky.social, @lydiadeleeuw.bsky.social

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"Technologies at war: The role of tech companies and the EU in facilitating war crimes and genocide in Gaza" Israel has deployed digital technologies to fuel the atrocities committed in its war in Gaza. The report by the United Nations Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories highlights how digital technologies are facilitating human rights abuses in Gaza, including actions consistent with the crime of genocide. Israel's digital warfare in Gaza presents an unprecedented blueprint for the militarization of data and digital technologies, “AI-washing” gross violations of international law. It also forces the door wide-open for further collusion between Big Tech and the military posing grave risks to fundamental rights, peace, and security elsewhere. Gaza, and occupied Palestine at-large, have become open-air technology expositions; a live laboratory for the testing and marketing of unprecedented technologies of violence, at the expense of Palestinians. Questions to be answered: - How are tech companies facilitating war crimes and genocide in Gaza through cloud computing, content moderation, hardware provision etc? - What role is the EU playing here, such as through funding or the export of technologies by EU companies? - Which legal instruments are applicable to the role of technologies here, and what avenues can be taken to stop this facilitation of war crimes and genocide? - What strategies or leverage points can be used to challenge and resist complicity in the tech-facilitated war on Gaza? Organised by Access Now with Daniel Leufer (moderator), Marwa Fatafta, Sarah Chander, Matt Mahmoudi, Lydia De Leeuw
May 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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May 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Chilling read by @celiaford.bsky.social "As our mental security becomes less guaranteed, we’ll need to decide whether the convenience of controlling stuff with our minds is worth letting tech companies colonize our last truly private space." www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Meta’s brain-to-text tech is here. We are not remotely ready.
Why we should start caring about the right to brain privacy now.
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February 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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@evgenymorozov.bsky.social perhaps of interest:
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IDSF – International Digital Security Forum Vienna
Balancing Sovereignty and Solidarity in the Digital Age. IDSF 2025 takes place from 4. – 6. June 2025 @ MQ Vienna.
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February 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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January 31, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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In its case against #OpenAI, the Indian news agency #ANI must prove that its material was used in a way that violated statutory protections under India's Copyright Act, writes Aklovya Panwar. Other cases from abroad may offer useful insights to understand the parties’ claims.
Generative AI and Copyright Issues Globally: ANI Media v OpenAI | TechPolicy.Press
ANI must prove that its material was used in a way that violated statutory protections under India's Copyright Act, writes Aklovya Panwar.
www.techpolicy.press
January 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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statewatch.bsky.social
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We are looking for people with expertise and experience in:
• fundraising
• relevant legal matters
• organisational growth
• carrying out research

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January 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Excellent opportunity- new @hrw.org job posting for senior technology and human rights researcher. Please share widely within your networks, we are hoping for as diverse a candidate pool as possible grnh.se/77d735632us
screenshot of Human Rights Watch job listing
December 16, 2024 at 6:14 AM