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The growing reliance on digital tech in elections has transformed election management & political campaigning. We've developed new guidelines on the use of digital tech in elections, together with @UNHumanRights and @CarterCenter. ohchr.org/sites/default/file…
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Governments are exerting control over access to abortion information and care on the Web, including blocking websites and surveilling people’s online activity.
Read our practical guide offering guidance to Sexual and reproductive justice activists.
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The line between tech designed to care and tech designed for war is blurring. Our data is sold, leaked, and weaponised, and can end up being used to train lethal algorithms.
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The US military has used location data collected through ordinary apps, including leaked data from Muslim prayer apps and health apps. web.archive.org/web/20260711…
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But there is hope: this trajectory for AI and automated weapons systems is not set in stone. Regulation can change our future, and we must demand it does. We are proud to have contributed to this powerful short film by @BanKillerRobots: piped.video/watch?v=JEYrJT2M…
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From Ukraine to Gaza to Iran, autonomous weapons systems are increasingly being employed in war. These systems rely on the large-scale collection and processing of, and inferences from our personal data to identify, select, and engage targets.
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In November, the UN will decide whether to start negotiations on new rules on autonomous weapons. meetings.unoda.org/-revcon/t…
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Sign the petition to call on the UK government to support a treaty on autonomous weapons and ensure meaningful human control over every decision to use force petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Do you remember the Cambridge Analytica scandal? It was ten years ago we found out about the misuse of personal data for political campaigns. Words like "profiling" and "micro-targeting" were suddenly intrinsically related to election campaigns. web.archive.org/web/20260514…
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What we know is that the growing reliance on digital and data-driven technologies, including AI, has significantly transformed election management and political campaigning. This evolving landscape requires an effective protection of rights, including the right to privacy.
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Against this backdrop, we, together with the @UNHumanRights and @CarterCenter have developed practical guidance for States, companies and political actors on the human rights compliant use of technologies throughout the electoral cycle. ohchr.org/sites/default/file…
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We’re in the UK Court of Appeal today with @A__W______O , intervening in a case between Clearview AI - provider of facial recognition technology based on scraped data - and the UK’s Data Protection Authority, the ICO 🧵
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But they’re arguing that they are beyond the reach of data protection law because they provide services to foreign law enforcement agencies (mainly in the US)
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