Digital Rights

The Race, Tech & Civil Society series continues with a Twitter chat on July 9th at 11am PT. Tweet @dgtlimpact with #RaceTechCS.

Prioritizing news distribution over reporting makes journalists and platforms active participants in spreading misinformation.

Activists and policy experts look at how disinformation is being used to reduce Black voter turnout and further disenfranchise communities of color.

Police surveillance amid the pandemic underscores discriminatory policies against Black Americans.

Overreliance on platforms like Zoom could result in a further loss of rights for those adversely affected by predictive tech and the digital divide.

A recent report suggests that while technology today is advantageous for some, the culture behind it debases the core tenets of human dignity.

An alliance of CSOs and activists made recommendations to governments in response to “serious concerns about the state of civic space.”

The the first in a series of discussions on race, tech, and civil society examines police surveillance in Detroit.

MIT’s new surveillance rating system is ready to “capture details of every significant automated contact tracing effort in the world.”

EDRi’s investigation of COVID-19 era surveillance includes recommendations from digital rights watchdog organizations.