Last day of #RightsCon! Excited about future conversations and collaboration. Come to our booth and make sure we get your input about which #DigitalPrinciples matter most to your region and work, and find out more about how you can collaborate on our #DigitalRightsScorecard and more!
#Rightscon2025
If the creation and dissemination of #IBSA is criminalised then platforms have to put safeguards in place and ensure all their content is created consensually. - Hate Aid #TFGBV #deepfakes #Rightscon2025
“What we need is criminalisation of the dissemination and creation of internet-based abuse. Then illegal content will have to be removed immediately and if it isn’t you can go to court. Which gives more options and rights to survivors. - Hate Aid #TFGBV #Rightscon2025
“We need to expand our view to not just supporting survivors but to look at prevention as well” - SVPA #TFGBV #deepfakes #Rightscon2025
We need to move towards looking at three levels of prevention - individual (values and community), institutional (internal policy and consequences) and systemic (tech accountability). We also need research to document the magnitude of the problem. #deepfakes #TFGBV #Rightscon2025
“At the global level we don’t have good examples from the global north. In #Pakistan last year there was an influx of #deepfakes targeting woman political leaders.” There is also a continuum of online to offline abuse. #TFGBV #Rightscon2025
“In #SouthAsia the governments has criminalised #TFGBV but they don’t understand how to address it. They don’t understand the virality and how fast it speeds. They on existing laws that are poorly drafted.” @digitalrightspk.bsky.social
Our @rightscon.org session “Survivor-Centred Solutions to AI-Facilitated GBV: A Global Roundtable Of Practitioners” has kicked off in Taipei! We’re exploring the gaps that exist in addressing #deepfakes and #GBV with a focus on survivor stories and perspectives. #Rightscon2025
All #DigitalRights are essential, but which #DigitalPrinciples resonate most with your work and your region? Come find us at @rightscon.org ’s Community Village and let us know! Find out more about our digital principles here: lnkd.in/d5fZ9mvy
#RightsCon2025
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Already excited about what we’ve seen here at #RightsCon: global representation, strong female leadership, stories of the urgency of universal #DigitalRights for freedom and democracy in #Taiwan, #Gaza and elsewhere.
And we're live! Ready for an epic #rightscon with friends and colleagues, old and new.
Come say hi at our booth! 💚
We’re at #Rightscon! Looking forward to connecting with allies as partners in the Community Village 🖤
@rightscon.org @equalitynow.bsky.social
Shout out to Lina Khan's FTC and the amazing work they have been doing, summarized in this post. This what a functioning regulatory body looks like & what we should continue to hold as expectations even in the face of pressure to normalize anything less.
www.ftc.gov/policy/advoc...
UK Govt to make creating & sharing sexually explicit #deepfake images a criminal offense, explaining "the proliferation of these hyper-realistic images has grown at an alarming rate, causing devastating harm to victims, particularly women and girls who are often the target”
bsky.app/profile/matt...
I've spent the past year interviewing Hannah Byrne, a former Counterterrorism policy manager at Meta who quit the company after coming to believe she helping build a racial profiling censorship machine. She shares her story today for the first time.
theintercept.com/2024/12/04/m...
We can’t talk about the future of tech and digital space without talking about the impact on other issues and rights. Decision makers must take a holistic approach to development to ensure advancement does not come at the cost of human rights, and the climate.
Read more:
📗Doxxing report: lnkd.in/d4YEkQCB
📘Deepfakes report: lnkd.in/d2pcAZtH
#16DaysOfActivism
#TFGBV
🌎🌍🌏Our recent reports into #Deepfakes and #Doxxing, both forms of online abuse which disproportionately target women and girls, found that neither is explicitly referenced or addresses in any laws in any of the jurisdictions we surveyed in our research. #16Days
💻Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (#TFGBV) and other forms of online abuse cannot be overlooked or sidelined during #16DaysofActivism.
"I'm encouraged by the energy of the #WomensRights movement, and the digital space is no different. If we're going to achieve what we can achieve with the #GDC, if we're going to make the progress we can make, we need to do it together." - Aurra Kawanzaruwa, AfriDigital Zimbabwe
#AfIGF
"The same urgency people have when they are demanding their rights to water or food is the urgency we need to see when it comes to people demanding their #DigitalRights". Hallima Nyota. Linda Data Kenya
#AfIGF #GDC
"Gender is not properly mainstreamed in the #GDC. We see the word, there is reference to #TFGBV, there is reference to #GenderEquality, and the #DigitalDivide, but its is not embedded throughout the document. And there is a lack of mechanisms to counter #GBV." - Amanda Manyame, Equality Now. #AfIGF
"We can't ignore the issue of #DigitalAccess. How will people understand the digital space, how will they recognise #TFGBV or #misinformation, if they don't have experiece in the space?" - Aurra Kawanzaruwa, AfriDigital Zimbabwe #AfIGF
"If we're going to implement the #GDC and have impact, it's important that stakeholders understand the GDC and the tools that they are working with, and this includes communities." - Aurra Kawanzaruwa, AfriDigital Zimbabwe #AfIGF
"Young women stepping into leadership positions find themselves facing multiple digital challenges, such as doxxing, #deepfakes and #TFGBV. We need to look at ensuring online protections are ensured and implemented". Hallima Nyota, Linda Data Kenya. #AfIGF #GDC
We're at #AfIGF discussing challenges to implementing the #GlobalDigitalCompact across Africa (and the globe), and how civil society can work together to ensure it protects #DigitalRights and creates an empowering digital ecosystem. From principles to action! Follow here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Previously, we held an event at #SummitoftheFuture with over 70 civil society reps to discuss how we intend to monitor the #GDC as it moves from drafting to implementation. Read out analysis of the adopted GDC text here: audri.org/after-the-su...
Hello from #Addis, where we are hosting a #AfIGF side-event tomorrow (22 November)! We will be exploring and co-creating responses to the #GlobalDigitalCompact with a focus on #DigitalRights in Africa. 08:00 UTC. Register here to join online: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
