"Keeping Secrets While Exposing the Truth? Balancing Data Protection in Digital Human Rights Archiving" Organised by Center for European Policy Studies with @camerana.bsky.social More information: cpdp.be/31038 #CPDP.ai #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching #CPDP #Workshop

The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

Hong Kong has been doing a deepdive into authoritarianism for 5 years now. What's happening in the US feels similar. A lot I want to share, but here's a start: By @ramshajahangir.bsky.social with @nighatdad.bsky.social @camerana.bsky.social @mishi.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/what-happens...

A Powerful Conservative Think Tank Is Targeting One of the Last Good Things on the Internet (hint: it's Wikipedia) slate.com/technology/2...

The effects of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s demise will extend far beyond Syria’s borders, write @natashahall.bsky.social and @joosthiltermann.bsky.social. “The end of Assad seems certain to transform the Middle East’s balance of power.”

Makes you wonder what Khamenei and Iran's elite have in their palaces www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

What incredible women! www.ft.com/content/fdbc...

There are moral and ideological cases for leaving X, of course, but you don't even need them: the old platform is just *gone* and has been for a long time nymag.com/intelligence...

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/04/t...

"... an attacker might interrupt a #ChatGPT session using a... prompt injection of [a filtered name].... The filter also means... it's likely that ChatGPT won't be able to answer questions about this article when browsing the web, such as through ChatGPT with #Search" arstechnica.com/information-...

NEW REPORT: We investigate the rising trend of gender-based digital transnational repression by drawing on the lived experiences of 85 women human rights defenders living in exile across the globe. Read the full report: citizenlab.ca/2024/12/the-...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi is now in Ankara to talk Syria with his Turkish counterpart. Via Iranian state media.

Lots of rumors of coup in Damascus, #Assad fleeing to Moscow - alongside semi-verified rapid opposition advances - next 24-48 hours will be key as the situation is changing rapidly in #Syria

Great take - www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Dozens of Central Asian targets hit in recent Russia-linked cyber-espionage campaign therecord.media/central-asia... Central Asia is a strategic #cyber "weak underbelly" for Russia - this campaign targeting #humanrights orgs corresponds with offline infiltration and surveillance of the same orgs