Only 38% of foundation funding goes to NGO general operating and “this is crazy” and “contributes the nonprofit starvation cycle,” states @kkellyjanus at #SSIRdata

What we’re talking about is more than law, suggests @McDapper at #SSIRdata, and “fortunately, the law of the jungle doesn’t require lawyers of the jungle.”

Security trainings and webinars aren't enough, argues @levjoy. "You probably downloaded some apps, played with them for a few days, and then life got in the way. Using Signal and walking away isn't enough." #SSIRdata

“Oh man, Silicon Valley, they are in some trouble,” days @Tifferatti in a song-songy fashion, highlighting benefits of cold reaching out at this moment. #SSIRdata

“The power isn’t in the technology, the power is in the people!” says @AntwiAkom #SSIRdata ✊

“No fixed solution” to what ails us. No one will tell an organization what to do — we all have to think about data ethics for ourselves, cautions @alixtrot in great #ResponsibleData session with @amy_odonnell @p2173 #SSIRdata

“We’re not talking about privacy, we’re talking about information management,” says @tracyannkosa, highlighting what law seems ultimately concerned with. #SSIRdata

Looking at enforcement actions to determine what privacy issues get most attention. “I took out the labels because they’re ultimately meaningless” cuz the blue slice is obviously the priority. #SSIRdata

Lots of unhelpful generic privacy and infosec advice for civil society chronicled by @tracyannkosa at #SSIRdata — which came across in a landscape review we tried to do last year.

"What if the work of establishing trust is a social problem, not an engineering one?" asks @Open_Referral/@greggish, suggesting at #SSIRdata that #blockchain is becoming a "complicated game of Dungeons & Dragons for libertarians."

"Where data does exist, it is often turned into a white paper that exists on some website and is not helpful to our world," muses @RadioFreeAsha at #SSIRdata. But my entire skillset is writing white papers no one reads!

"Do bots have free speech rights? I don't ever want a court to look at that,” muses @brittanheller. This is the prelude to a serious scenario a friend has cooked up for how AI gains legal personhood and the open internet is dismantled. #SSIRdata

Turns out people are equal opportunity haters. @brittanheller discusses failed effort to target anti-immigrant hate speech and found “if you hate one group, you hate all groups.” #SSIRdata

Hey! @rightscon gets a shout-out at #SSIRdata! Let’s all meet in Toronto and talk tech for good!

Point of computational propaganda is to create doubt about what is true, says @brittanheller. #SSIRdata

2.6 million hateful tweets from a 1600 accounts got billions of impressions—equivalent of a few trolls buying a Super Bowl ad in terms of impact, explains @ADL_National’s @brittanheller at #SSIRdata

So #SSIRdata kicked off with a pretty rocking buzzword-filled video with facts about #bigdata. Sorta bummed no one in the audience cheered at the end...