Tim Engelhardt
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Mostly on human rights, digital tech. Work at UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR). Posts personal.
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Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; â⊠without
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tools, lives may be endangered. In the worst cases, a Governmentâs ability to break into its citizensâ phones may lead to the persecution of individuals who are simply exercising their fundamental human rights.â
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Paul Fairie
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees đ§”
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Worth bringing back this briefer on how encryption protects and promotes human rights
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Glyn Moody
4 days ago
Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog -
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
#ukgov
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Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog
It's the latest blow to encryption in the UK
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/creating-apps-like-signal-or-whatsapp-could-be-hostile-activity-claims-uk-watchdog
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The Markup
3 days ago
All you need: your computer or smartphone, some free tools, and your childâs internet- or Bluetooth-connected toy
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We Tested Kidsâ Smart Toys for Privacy. Hereâs How You Can, Too â The Markup
All you need: your computer or smartphone, some free tools, and your childâs internet- or Bluetooth-connected toy
https://bit.ly/4963Ikn
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Ben Williamson
5 days ago
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker đ§” Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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8 days ago
This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week:
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
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I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt
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michael veale
9 days ago
VPNs starting to enter the regulatory frame: now in Denmark
www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/d...
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Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy âą The Register
: Minister insists 'modest' bill is not an assault on privacy-preserving tech
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/denmark_vpn_ban/
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Ben Williamson
12 days ago
2025 was the year AI hit hard in education after a long lead in If anyone's left with a job in the social sciences and humanities to keep studying it critically in the future, here's a reading list I've been compilung all year to get you going
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Hypervisible
12 days ago
đđ DiffProtect ârewrites a personâs face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools. The resulting photo still looks like the person to any human viewer, but to state-of-the-art facial recognition systems, the image becomes something else entirely.â
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A new kind of digital camouflage emerges from DARPA AI research | Biometric Update
The technique, called DiffProtect, quietly rewrites a personâs face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools.
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202512/a-new-kind-of-digital-camouflage-emerges-from-darpa-ai-research
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Really worth reading and reflecting on! Gosh, I wish I could join those classes!
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John Warner
14 days ago
This description/reflection from
@mattdinan.bsky.social
on how he essentially delegitimized using LLMs as a way to outsource student thinking/writing is a model on how to work through your values and build a course around them.
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Permission Structures
How AI-skeptic Professors Can Still Help Students Write Papers
https://mattdinan.substack.com/p/the-ai-skeptical-professors-guide
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Milagros Miceli
15 days ago
Today, DWI publishes a powerful essay by
@mgasia.bsky.social
, who works impersonating an AI sex companion:
data-workers.org/michael/
This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.
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Dr. Stephanie
16 days ago
Holy CRAP. Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into âautisticâ or ânot autisticâ, and uploads that âdataâ for free on Kaggle. Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it. And no reviewers objected? WTF.đ§Ș
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Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of childrenâs faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/exclusive-springer-nature-retracts-removes-nearly-40-publications-that-trained-neural-networks-on-bonkers-dataset/
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Rosamunde Van Brakel
16 days ago
why? it will ruin what made Wallace & Gromit so fantastic in the first place
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Justin Hendrix
19 days ago
Don't let anyone â not even the US Secretary of State â tell you that the European Commission's âŹ120 million enforcement against Elon Muskâs X under the Digital Service Act is about censorship, writes Daphne Keller. Itâs just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, she says.
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The EUâs Fine Against X is Not About Speech or âCensorshipâ | TechPolicy.Press
The âŹ120 million fine under the Digital Services Act is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, writes Stanford's Daphne Keller.
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-fine-against-x-is-not-about-speech-or-censorship/
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OHCHR welcomes Seoul Statement of ISO, IEC and ITU that highlights the importance of integrating human rights into tech standard development.
www.linkedin.com/posts/home-i...
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Home - International AI Standards Summit 2025 | United Nations Human Rights
With AI evolving quickly, decisions about its design and use already impact peopleâs lives on a daily basis. Whether or not standards are anchored in human rights determines whether AI works for peopl...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/home-international-ai-standards-summit-share-7402757848541319168-6pc4
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Ian Axel Anderson
26 days ago
Excited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! đš S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria. S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse. Thread below... đ§”
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Louis Barclay
26 days ago
From our summer intern at the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers: "S-risk is the risk that AGI doesnât kill us all, but instead enslaves and tortures us for eternity (the âSâ stands for suffering). It was awesome to learn about it."
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âIâll never sleep againâ
Our intern Clem Park writes about her rewarding summer at CAAAC, spent writing scenarios where an AGI enslaves and tortures humanity forever
https://directing.attention.to/p/ill-never-sleep-again
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ARTICLE 19
about 1 month ago
ARTICLE 19 is proud to have engaged with and contributed to the OHCHRâs recent research. Ensuring technical standards development is linked to and rooted in human rights will empower us all to exercise our rights to communicate and to access information freely.
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Tech and Human Rights Study: Making technical standards work for humanity - New pathways for incorporating international human rights into standards development for digital technologies
https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/tools-and-resources/tech-and-human-rights-study-making-technical-standards-work-humanity
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Victor Klemperer Journal
30 days ago
24. November 1936
#VictorKlemperer
#TagebĂŒcher
#NS
#Nationalsozialismus
#Faschismus
#Antisemitismus
#Propaganda
#LTI
(See alt-text for English)
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David Brody
about 1 month ago
This is a big deal bc insurance is one of the strongest levers for changing policy and behavior (the other being taxes). AI companies may have so much money they can self insure. But their enterprise customers donât and this will cause them think twice about how they adopt and deploy AI.
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Eryk Salvaggio
about 1 month ago
What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
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What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-was-chatgpt/
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The Associated Press
about 1 month ago
A man in Australia is challenging a state's ban on Vegemite in prisons, claiming that denying him the polarizing spread violates his human rights.
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Murderer sues for right to eat Vegemite in prison
A convicted murderer in Australia is challenging a state's ban on Vegemite in prisons, claiming that denying him the polarizing spread violates his human rights.
https://bit.ly/3XFT4v3
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DFRLab
about 1 month ago
đ Nov 19 @ 9AM | Digital identity systems are transforming governance across Africa while raising big questions about privacy, inclusion & power. Join DFRLab's Democracy+Tech Initiative as we explore how digital identity is reshaping governance, elections & rights across the continent
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Biometrics in Africa: The market behind digital identity
The Atlantic Councilâs Democracy + Tech Initiative hosts a conversation on biometric and digital identification systems in Africa.
https://bit.ly/3K4IPxk
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Steve Brewer
about 1 month ago
Ireland winning goal and end of match with Irish commentary
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Tom Davidson
about 1 month ago
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
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die quati (precht destroyerâąïž era)
about 1 month ago
Precht insinuiert hier das Bild einer "ursprĂŒnglich proletarischen Linken" mit einem "derben und martialischen Jargon" als GegenstĂŒck zur heutigen "akademischen" Linken. Polarisierung, Vereinfachung, historisch kontrafaktisch. Schauen wir in die Arbeiter*innengeschichte. Los geht's 1/
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Social Media Lab
about 1 month ago
If you think you can do better at content moderation, check out the two content moderation games listed on the Digital Literacy page of our Deepfakes Tracker research portal: 1) Moderator Mayhem and 2) Trust and Safety Tycoon.
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Digital Literacy Games â deepfakestracker.org
Digital Literacy Games â A curated list of educational games to test your ability to identify deepfakes and develop digital literacy skills. Creating Disinformation Games Cat Park Players are challen...
https://deepfakestracker.org/digital-literacy-games/
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Lawfare
about 1 month ago
On Lawfare Daily,
@klonick.bsky.social
and
@alanrozenshtein.com
spoke to
@superwuster.bsky.social
about about his new book, âThe Age of Extraction," how platforms have evolved, and what he sees as the future solution set for the problems that have developed in the digital era.
youtu.be/SBTOdJpaZNY
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Taylor Lorenz
about 1 month ago
I distribute my newsletter on Substack and Patreon. Only on Patreon, I am hit with these âcommunity guidelinesâ warnings. Note: the platform didnât take action, but itâs concerning that topics that tech journalists write about like porn, violence, politics, etc are deemed unsafe.
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Le Monde
about 2 months ago
« Chat Control » : le projet européen de surveillance des messageries largement abandonné
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« Chat Control » : le projet européen de surveillance des messageries largement abandonné
La mesure prĂ©voyait dâimposer aux Ă©diteurs de messageries, comme WhatsApp ou Telegram, de scanner les conversations privĂ©es de leurs utilisateurs pour lutter contre la pĂ©docriminalitĂ©. TrĂšs controversĂ©e, elle avait notamment Ă©tĂ© dĂ©noncĂ©e par lâAllemagne.
https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2025/10/31/chat-control-le-projet-europeen-de-surveillance-des-messageries-largement-abandonne_6650578_4408996.html
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Simonetta Vezzoso
about 2 months ago
"We find that all six developers appear to employ their users' chat data to train and improve their models by default, and that some retain this data indefinitely" oh well
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User Privacy and Large Language Models: An Analysis of Frontier Developers' Privacy Policies
Hundreds of millions of people now regularly interact with large language models via chatbots. Model developers are eager to acquire new sources of high-quality training data as they race to improve m...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05382
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SBS Australia (unofficial)
about 2 months ago
đą After almost a decade of activism and community efforts, Victoria has passed Australia's first ever treaty legislation establishing a permanent Indigenous representative body in the state parliament. The landmark agreement between the Victorian Government and the Firs...
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Victoria passes Australiaâs first treaty law, creating permanent Indigenous voice in parliament
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/victoria-passes-australias-first-treaty-law-creating-permanent-indigenous-voice-in-parliament/0wag2yw4z
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Please take some time and read this briefer on the serious human rights impacts of last monthâs telecommunications shutdowns in Afghanistan, from hindering access to healthcare to disrupting humanitarian operations and exposing women to even harsher restrictions:
www.ohchr.org/en/press-bri...
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Afghanistan: Human rights impact of telecommunications shutdowns
This morning, the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan published a briefing paper on the serious and far-reaching human rights impacts of last monthâs telecommunications...
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-notes/2025/10/afghanistan-human-rights-impact-telecommunications-shutdowns
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Please take some time and read this briefer on the serious human rights impacts of last monthâs telecommunications shutdowns in Afghanistan, from hindering access to healthcare to disrupting humanitarian operations and exposing women to even harsher restrictions:
www.ohchr.org/en/press-bri...
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Afghanistan: Human rights impact of telecommunications shutdowns
This morning, the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan published a briefing paper on the serious and far-reaching human rights impacts of last monthâs telecommunications...
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-notes/2025/10/afghanistan-human-rights-impact-telecommunications-shutdowns
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Cold War Conversations Podcast
about 2 months ago
Fascinated by
#eastgermany
#ddr
#gdr
?
go.bsky.app/drcrDK
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UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) comment on the signing ceremony of the UN
#Cybercrime
Convention:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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The UN Cybercrime Convention, opening for signature in Hanoi, Viet Nam, on 25â26 October 2025, marks a critical juncture in international efforts to govern digital technologies. It not only creates aâŠ...
The UN Cybercrime Convention, opening for signature in Hanoi, Viet Nam, on 25â26 October 2025, marks a critical juncture in international efforts to govern digital technologies. It not only creates a ...
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7387528750109855744
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404 Media
2 months ago
NEW: an a16z-backed startup called Doublespeed promises clients can âorchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.â Essentially an AI-powered bot service in violation of all major social media platforms
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
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a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of âSynthetic Influencersâ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
https://www.404media.co/a16z-backed-startup-sells-thousands-of-synthetic-influencers-to-manipulate-social-media-as-a-service/
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UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) comment on the signing ceremony of the UN
#Cybercrime
Convention:
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The UN Cybercrime Convention, opening for signature in Hanoi, Viet Nam, on 25â26 October 2025, marks a critical juncture in international efforts to govern digital technologies. It not only creates aâŠ...
The UN Cybercrime Convention, opening for signature in Hanoi, Viet Nam, on 25â26 October 2025, marks a critical juncture in international efforts to govern digital technologies. It not only creates a ...
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7387528750109855744
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A thread worth reading. Nuanced assessment of a headline grabbing report.
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Vas Panagiotopoulos
2 months ago
â ïž The European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee
@libe.europarl.europa.eu
will hold a debate on đȘđșEU funding for
#spyware
, following our
@ftm.eu
investigation.
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Daphne Keller
2 months ago
This report on platform transparency under the DSA in the Global South is excellent â both as a nuanced explanation of the DSA and for the significant, detailed considerations it adds from other regions.
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Explaining Net Neutrality Is Easier On A Giant Roller Coaster
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiUV5jmfYEU
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Rosamunde Van Brakel
2 months ago
In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technologyâs benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666322...
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Police facial recognition trials show little evidence of benefits | Computer Weekly
In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technologyâs benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts.
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366632223/Police-facial-recognition-trials-show-little-evidence-of-benefits
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Joshua LĂŒdtke
2 months ago
I'll just print up this list and distribute it to all the colleges and universities nearby
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Read this thread, please!
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