Digital rights in Europe under threat! Together over 120 society organisations, trade unions + defenders of the public interest we are raising alarm over European Commission’s Digital Omnibus. We're clear – fundamental rights are not ‘red tape’. www.article19.org/resources/eu...

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...

as much as the big tech companies tried to present an independent face to the world in the past, that is now finished. they are entwined with the trumpist state in ways that, i believe, will do them (& us, of course) great damage over the long run. [more great @404media.co content 👇]

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...

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...

“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...

Keep talking about Sudan.

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...

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.

🚨 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

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?

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

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/

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

“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

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.

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...

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

"Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities" the-decenter.ghost.io/the-body-as-... by Afsaneh Rigot

“Every participant who was detained by authorities & had biometrics enabled, said they were violently forced to unlock their phone. […]” The research is clear: those with biometrics lost the power to resist device searches. Only using passcodes had some ability to refuse, delay, or obscure access.

Convenience is costing people their freedom. We found that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable forced phone access by police and authorities. Plus, companies that brand themselves with user privacy are contributing to the normalization of constant bodily data capture and surveillance.

Millions in crisis rely on ubiquitous tools that betray them: from social media to Starlink. The deeper shock is when secure tools also exclude them through everyday hurdles like phone verification. In order to have real alternatives, we must reclaim hyper-accessibility. 🔐

People in crisis (war, conflict, repression) are often forced to use the same tools that exploit them, which creates structural dependence by design. Afsaneh Rigot argues that we need to reclaim hyper-accessibility for the public good. 🔐 #dfm #decenter

Millions in crisis rely on ubiquitous tools that betray them: from social media to Starlink. The deeper shock is when secure tools also exclude them through everyday hurdles like phone verification. In order to have real alternatives, we must reclaim hyper-accessibility. 🔐

Israel bombed an Evin, an Iranian prison that housed dissidents and political prisoners. They ended up destroying the trans wing and murdering over 100 trans people incarcerated there, many for simply being queer in Iran. This is unspeakable evil. archive.ph/PA2n5

NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:

Republicans just took away your healthcare so they can fund their secret police: newrepublic.com/post/197612/...

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

Report it now on 7or -The Palestinian Observatory of Digital Rights Violations 🔗 7or.7amleh.org

Israel’s genocide in Gaza. War in Lebanon. Now Iran — as the US circles in. AI weapons fuel this — tested on Gazans, expanded to Iran, used by ICE. Powered by companies like Palantir & OpenAI. It’s a war on us all! #STOPTHEWAR #NoTechForApartheid #NoTechForICE Photo @alexshams.bsky.social

“A poem by a young Iranian poet Parnia Abbasi who, along with her family, all civilians, was killed today in a brutal and unlawful Israeli attack in the Sattarkhan neighbourhood of Tehran.” www.pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...

“the world needs more courage, not less. It needs people who choose justice over convenience. […] Loving you is not separate from the struggle for liberation. It is liberation itself. I fight for you, and for every Palestinian child whose life deserves safety, tenderness and freedom.”

About 2,000 transgender people are incarcerated in federal prisons, according to the Bureau of Prisons — a tiny fraction of the federal prison population. But they are disproportionately targeted for abuse and assault.

🧵 Amnesty International’s analysis of satellite imagery and verification of video footage reveals how Israeli forces completely razed what remained of the town of Khuza’a in the southern occupied Gaza Strip over the course of two weeks in May 2025.

“A poem by a young Iranian poet Parnia Abbasi who, along with her family, all civilians, was killed today in a brutal and unlawful Israeli attack in the Sattarkhan neighbourhood of Tehran.” www.pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...

Our struggles are connected: Palestinians, migrants in LA, families in Tehran, queer folks in Cairo, or Sudanese refugees. The decentered are policed, surveilled, criminalized. Same tools. Same logic. Different uniforms. Identify the decentered, expose the system, break its power. 🔏 1/3

From a queer person in Cairo to a Latino man in LA, the decentered are groups that are marginalized — and then also criminalized — for their mere existence. In our upcoming report, we speak to the decentered from all over the world, and the language of experimentation colors what many of them say. 🔐

Second, the Bill sets the stage for massive privatized, for-profit concentration camps. It will quadruple the capacity of ICE to detain people--giving it capacity to detain, in for-profit arrangements where corporations make money per person per day, at least 100,000 more people.

Too often, communities impacted by AI are left out of conversations that shape its design and deployment. Tomorrow, May 20, join us for a webinar on how participatory practices can change that + how PAI’s Guidance for Inclusive AI can help. Register: partnershiponai-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📣The full agenda for the Palestine Digital Activism Forum 2025! Register now for online attendance: events.ringcentral.com/events/pdaf-... #PDAF #PDAF2025

بمناسبة اليوم العالمي لمناهضة رهاب المثلية الجنسية، ازدواجية الميل الجنسي، والعبور الجنسي أو الجندري، "ايداهوبت"، يسرّنا أن نُقدّم لكم دليل لووم سوانا الجديد والفعّال لمجتمعات الميم عين. اقرأ/ي وحمل/ي الكتيب من هنا: loomswana.org/ar/safetygui...

I wrote about how NGO's working in abortion access and LGBTQ rights could be cutoff from US tech due to Trump issuing sanctions against them. Liberal government's could also find themselves targeted. This is a wake up call. www.thedissident.news/internationa...

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