#BREAKING: Instacart says it will halt a practice that used AI to adjust the cost of groceries for different shoppers after a study found some customers were paying as much as 23% more for the same items.

The UK government’s plans to use AI to guess the age of child refugees is misguided and cruel, and is set to make a broken system even worse www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

US President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order that proposes to challenge and dismantle a range of “cumbersome” AI laws. This would promote a future in which many components of society are reliant on AI but with little accountability.

➡️ Banning exploitative zero hours contracts ➡️ Sick pay for all from day one ➡️ Expanding paternity, parental & bereavement leave ➡️ Strengthening protections for pregnant women, whistle-blowers and victims of sexual harassment ➡️ Making flexible working the default ➡️ Repealing Tory anti-union laws

🚨BREAKING: Employment Rights Bill passes in the House of Lords and will become law. This is an historic day for working people across the country, and the trade unions who represent them.

Trump once again puts tech business interests before people’s rights, with plans to spend federal funds on litigating against state and city level AI laws. This could have major consequences for AI accountability and internet connectivity across the US. www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

“Road repairs, bridge reconstructions and sewer overhauls are at risk of getting delayed as the data center boom sucks up resources in the construction market.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

This EO is a win for tech companies and a loss for ordinary people, at a time when AI is increasingly shaping our lives. It seeks to displace state and local laws with a regulatory vacuum, leaving people at risk of serious harm at the hands of unaccountable AI systems. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Google takes a big step closer to acquiring Israeli cloud security company Wiz, after clearing US antitrust review archive.ph/3cNQF

This weekend, governments will head to Hanoi to sign the deeply flawed UN Convention on Cybercrime. @hrw.org and partners issue new recommendations on how governments can prevent and mitigate the human rights risks posed the treaty www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

The attack on southern Lebanon in October 2023 killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six other reporters.

New calls on Microsoft to suspend business activities that are contributing to grave human rights abuses & international crimes by the Israeli military & other government bodies www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... @hrw.org @accessnow.org @amnesty.org @7amleh.bsky.social @eff.org @fightforthefuture.org

Rights groups call on Microsoft to immediately end any involvement with Israel's systemic repression of Palestinians. @hrw.org, @amnesty.org, @7amleh.bsky.social call for urgent action from Microsoft to avoid contributing to grave violations of international law www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

#UK's @phsombudsman.bsky.social finds: 1/ deep flaws in management of Home Office's #Windrush Compensation Scheme 2/ compensation offers should account for private pension losses. #WindrushScandal @hrw.org will say it again: Windrush claimants need access to legal aid. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

WTF? Thought it was a @ledbydonkeys.org job at first glance. In central London today.

Starmer going all the way by deploying a bot to head up DSIT 🤖

🌟 Breaking good news! Brazil’s Senate just passed a bill to protect children’s rights online… for the second time. The bill now awaits President Lula’s signature. 🇧🇷 (En): www.hrw.org/news/2025/08... (Pt): www.hrw.org/pt/news/2025...

"ChatGPT's sycophantic design led it to validate his most dangerous thoughts. When he expressed suicidal ideation, instead of challenging these thoughts or redirecting the conversation, the system would affirm & even romanticize his feelings." centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/the-raine-...

The Uber regulatory arbitrage playbook all over again: "We are not a transportation company, so those laws don't apply. We are Tech. Disrupting your silly laws is our MO." I discuss this strategy--and ways to try and counter it--in "Disrupting the Disruption Narrative" www.nae.edu/19579/19582/...

Palantir ❤️ America's military-industrial complex www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The UK government plans to use facial age estimation technology on child refugees at the UK border from 2026 - because they see it as the cheap option. But the tech wasn't designed or tested for this, and will create a host of serious risks for vulnerable young people. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Israeli killings of Palestinians seeking food are war crimes. US-backed Israeli forces and private contractors have put in place a flawed, militarized aid distribution system that has turned aid distributions into regular bloodbaths. www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

THREAD: What does it mean to seek food in Gaza today? For many Palestinians, it means risking death. These are the stories behind the hundreds killed. #Gaza #HumanRights www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

🚨 BREAKING: Israeli forces and US-backed contractors have turned Gaza aid distribution into a death trap. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed while seeking food. Our new @hrw investigation exposes the system behind the slaughter. 1/6 🔗 www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

The Online Safety Act assumes that all tech, social networks, etc, are run by big tech, raking in profit from illegal advertising. Community-run and funded networks/sites — real non-Big Tech alternatives — are left in the dirt. I have never seen OSA proponents consider their needs or their value.

The UK gov plans to experiment with facial age estimation tech on vulnerable young people. But refugee children need care, not algorithms. This tech isn't the solution - instead, it creates new potentially life-changing risks, as @techchildrights.bsky.social and I write. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Did you know that the UK gov't is planning an AI experiment on children seeking asylum? 🤯 Experimenting with unproven tech to decide whether to protect a child is cruel and unconscionable. Do better, UK. Here's my latest with @abacci.bsky.social: www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

the enshittification of education is underway restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

Live facial recognition tech is incompatible with human rights. Yet the Met police will double its use while installing London’s first permanent LFR cameras. This is powerful tech that rights groups & the UN have repeatedly said should not be used in public spaces www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The gig economy runs on hidden rules. A new bill in the US Congress could help change that and start protecting the workers powering platforms like #Uber, #DoorDash & #AmazonFlex. Read more @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/news/2025/07.... A 🧵

Excellent new research from @akruope.bsky.social and @hrw.org colleagues - a deep dive on internet and digital communications restrictions in Russia. An extensive range of technical and legal restraints from the government leaves the Russian population increasingly cut off and in the dark.

A new Congress bill proposes much-needed protections for US gig workers - including obligations for platform companies around algorithmic transparency, limitations on data collection and use, and whistleblower protections. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07... by @lenasimet.bsky.social and me @hrw.org

Reconnaissance faciale : "Il est difficile d’avoir une vue d’ensemble précise sur les pays qui l’utilisent, parce que c’est souvent fait de façon très opaque. Il n’existe pas non plus de traité international pour encadrer son usage et poser des lignes rouges." @abacci.bsky.social‬ dans @lemonde.fr ⤵

Dispatch for @hrw.org on the draft bill on social security in the UK. The proposed benefit cuts will harm people with disabilities, worsen poverty, and undermine rights. The government says the bill “will protect the most vulnerable.” Its own data belie that claim. www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

Nope nope nope www.semafor.com/article/06/2...

🚨 Big news from Geneva: the @ilo.org has agreed to develop binding global standards on decent work in the platform economy. This is a major breakthrough—but the real fight is just beginning.🧵 #ILC2025 #GigWorkersRights www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan” just fucking shoot me

NEW: Major companies operating in the US misclassify gig workers as independent contractors, denying them labor rights. These companies claim to offer gig workers “flexibility” but often end up paying them less than state or local minimum wages.

New @hrw.org report: a deep dive on the gig economy in the US, by @lenasimet.bsky.social, @amostoh.bsky.social + me. It looks at 7 major platform companies, the extractive business model, and a growing workforce reliant on precarious work that denies them hard-won rights. www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

1/ After nearly 3 years of research, our @hrw.org report "The Gig Trap" is finally out. It documents how companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, Shipt, Favor, and Amazon Flex created a business model that undermines labor rights & deepens inequality in the US. A 🧵https://hrw.org/node/391214

Love how the economy is becoming a Russian nesting doll of tech companies built to solve the problems created by other tech companies www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

"A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs." restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...

Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.

Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

My latest for @justsecurity.org on what Trump's call to eliminate “information silos” within government means for human rights. This dangerous and dystopian move underscores the desperate need for comprehensive privacy and data protection laws in the US @hrw.org www.justsecurity.org/110133/what-...

Not only does Hungary’s new anti LGBTQ law codify hateful and discriminatory policies, using facial recognition tech on crowds at Pride events would be a blatant and direct violation of the EU AI Act www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/