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If you didn't know, you can also find us on Mastodon and Bluesky! 👇
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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.
In November, the UN will decide whether to start negotiations on new rules on autonomous weapons. meetings.unoda.org/-revcon/t…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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 🧵
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)
privacyinternational.org/lon…
Around the world, states are using tech to monitor populations, suppress dissent & exert control often without transparency, meaningful oversight or routes to redress.
Our new Global Report on the Authoritarian Use of Technology documents this trend.
privacyinternational.org/rep…
Secret intelligence agencies, contractors and spyware vendors are using AI tools to support surveillance operations.
Governments should be protecting people from surveillance and hacking, not secretly using AI to expand them
The Digital Nation Pakistan Act 2025 aims to centralise the country’s digital governance, including digital services, data systems and cybersecurity.
But according to @DigitalRightsPK, the success of Pakistan’s digital transformation will not be measured only by how many services move online or how quickly new systems are introduced.
The measure of progress will be visible in ordinary experiences: students accessing education services without unnecessary exposure of personal data; patients using a digital health service that ensures the privacy of their records. Read more: privacyinternational.org/lon…
