AI has 99 problems and none are technical
AI has 99 problems and none are technical
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AI has 99 problems and none are technical
It’s critical to confront the reality that AI is just modern data science with one major promise (or peril): It’s our only hope of making sense of the vast quantities of unstructured data produced by ubiquitous sensors and surveillance. It is this underlying motivation that needs our attention.
Considering intimate partner violence in protocol design
With Sofía Celi and Juliana Guerra, we have authored an Internet-Draft, now adopted in the HRPC research group, to inform internet protocol design and implementation given the possible technical attacks on a survivor of intimate partner violence (IPV).
IPV is a pervasive reality that is not limited to, but can
Part II: Five more ways the internet has made human rights worse
Part II: Five more ways the internet has made human rights worse (the first five) :
6. Shrinking civic space
The internet has eroded offline civic space, introducing several challenges and negative impacts on the right to protest. Amnesty International reports, “Protesters across the globe are facing a potent mix of
5 out of 10 ways the internet has made things worse for human rights
The internet has facilitated a new era of challenges and threats to human rights. While it has enabled e-commerce, it has exacerbated inequality. While it has democratized freedom of expression, it has given a megaphone to hate speech. While it has lowered barriers to access information, it has proliferated misinformation.
Are link previews secure?
Tomorrow: Make plans to attend "Power to the People: The Encryption Summit". The Global Encryption Coalition and Tech Policy Press are hosting a series of panels on encryption, privacy, security. Saturday 21 Oct is Global Encryption Day.
Last weekend: While digital security experts were asking one another about
The Five Eyes campaign against encryption threatens Democracy
This week in Tech Policy Press is a statement I wrote with colleagues from the steering committee of the Global Encryption Coalition about why it is a spectacularly bad idea to trust the Five Eyes countries– UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand– with expanded surveillance powers over end-to-end encrypted