💻 Este año, en la #RightsCon25 presentamos la investigación "Hacia una transparencia algorítmica en el sector público de América Latina" 🌎

Te invitamos a leerla:

👉 https://f.mtr.cool/yeqohtlkuo

I wrote about #RightsCon25: how Taiwan is dealing with digital threats from China and why we should not sleep on art as serious activism. Mostly I gained hope though, through solidarity with human rights defenders from Taiwan, Palestine, Ukraine, Cameroon, Myanmar and the US, just to name a few.

eQSat – Casting Over Firewalls

Mielenkiintoisin palvelu johon törmäsin RightConissa: eQsat. Nämä lähettävät TV-satelliitin kautta 10 gigatavua päivässä uutissivustojen kopioita ym. maihin joissa internetiä sensuroidaan. Vastaanotto onnistuu ihan normitietsikalla + satelliittiusbimokkulalla: sat.equalit.ie #RightsCon25 #RightsCon

EU Tech Policy Brief: March 2025 Welcome back to the Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe‘s Tech Policy Brief! This edition covers the most pressing technology and internet policy issues under debate in Europe and gives CDT’s per...

📢 The latest edition of our EU Tech Policy Brief is out now!

This issue includes:

⚖️ Our reaction to the third draft Code of Practice on General-Purpose #AI

🟣 What we did for #IWD25

🇹🇼 #RightsCon25 in Taipei

… and more!

👇 Read & sign up here: cdt.org/insights/eu-...

At #RightsCon25, we explored balancing pluralistic debate + #FoE with tackling manipulative narratives that distort reality & fuel polarisation – especially #Russia #disinformation.

Check this powerful quote from @lutzguellner.bsky.social
+ session recap:
www.article19.org/resources/eu...

RightsCon 2025: Protecting digital freedom in a conflicted world - ARTICLE 19 At RightsCon 2025, civil society and experts discussed digital freedom, information integrity, and China's transnational repression.

🌐 From online expression to digital repression, get up to speed with the latest on the challenges to digital rights globally with @article19.bsky.social 's overview of #RightsCon25.

“DFM came from the work but it’s also a necessity. If we are not designing from this POV, all of our systems are flawed and vulnerable.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

“The companies that cared, or pretended to care, they’re going to want to capture that market share of people who are concerned with equity.” — Apryl Williams #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

“Just like you can read a person’s body language, you can read a companies UX design.” — Jessical Fjeld #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

Understanding your oppressors or adversaries provides a method of reverse engineering and finding the gaps. If you are keeping these folks safe, everyone else by proxy will be kept safe.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

“DFM is about harnessing the experiences of those marginalized." — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

“I think of this as capitalist espionage.” — Apryl Williams #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

“The companies are not monoliths. Even within the companies, there are people who are values-aligned. And those people can be key to translate the message. So if we can find them and work with them, they can be key allies.” —Jessica Fjeld #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

“We did get a lot of changes and shifts. The changes were smart and wanted globally.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

“Why is it almost always on us to find ways to navigate these harms? The reason we came to app-cloaking is people were using external apps to do it themselves.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

“You didn’t sit on the laurels of the documentation. You turned around and made changes with the companies.” — Jessica Fjeld #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

“Regardless of where you are, you want to fall in love, you want to hook up. Regardless of how much policing is happening, you won’t stop existing.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

"I was shocked that I was shocked, but what a lot of people experience on the apps is radicalized and gendered. So much of dating culture is about these hetero-patriarchal norms.” — Apryl Williams #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

“The co-founder of OK Cupid said ‘If you feel like your matches are ugly, it’s probably because you are ugly.’” — Apryl Williams #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

@the.de.center closed out @rightscon with a lively talk about designing dating apps from the margins. Dr. Apryl Williams and Afsaneh Rigot focused on different groups, but found many similarities. #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

Expanding the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP) Community at RightsCon, Taiwan - Project Liberty Over the past year, the DSNP Advisory Council and its Governance Working Group chaired by our advisor, Wendy Seltzer, and led by Research & Policy Manager, Sarah Nicole, have been developing DSNP gove...

Find out what happened at the first Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP) community meeting held at #RightsCon25 in Taiwan with the growing momentum to build a social web that gives users voice, choice, and stake in their digital lives. www.projectliberty.io/news/expandi...

It was an incredible week at #RightsCon25 that went beyond anything I expected. So many amazing conversations, such great ideas out there, and maybe most importantly, a ton of networking. Don’t lose hope- the work is being done, and we’re finding ways to connect!

Absolutely terrible news right at the end of #RightsCon25 and and embarrassment for #Thailand and #SoutheastAsia.

My heart aches at the thought of what will happen to these #Uyghurs being sent into the hands of the #Chinese government.

www.rfa.org/english/uygh...

“There is an economy of criminalization… There’s a market behind it. There’s not a lot of great science behind it, but there is a market.” - Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

“Instead of seeking someone’s arrest, it will seek their location.” - Alex Tinsley, Barrister, @doughtystreet.bsky.social #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

“You say national security, it’s like a magic wand and is sort of a benediction over everything.” - @davidakaye.bsky.social University of California, Irvine; former U.N. Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

"[It] normalizes biometric surveillance," Veridiana Alimont on the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime @eff.org #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

“We have to hone in on - and really understand - how policing really works.” - Afsaneh Rigot, in conversation with leading voices on transnational policing and human rights, moderated by @cybercrimelab.bsky.social #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐

"Social media can be a lifeline for those going through genocide, but also a battlefield too.” @marwasf.bsky.social @rightscon.org #decenter #designfromthemargins #rightscon25 🔏 🔐

“Don’t Panic. Organize” — Azza Nubi #RightsCon #TheDeCenter #Rightscon25 #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐