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Dear Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Pichai, In the past few years, you have pioneered important transparency tools to help your platform users understand, learn about and contextualise the political advertising they see. We agree that advertiser verification processes and ad repositories are key safeguards against online manipulation and misinformation. However, we are saddened to observe that these benefits have not been equally distributed among your global user base. Each platform operates fluctuating and often widely differing transparency standards for different countries. While some users benef...
Access Now 25 January 2021 | 12:01 pm As state and corporate actors continue to maximize data collection and retention, governments worldwide must take concrete measures to address existing and emerging threats to affirm and safeguard the fundamental human right to privacy. Since the Snowden revelations of mass surveillance in 2013, the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly and U.N. Human Rights Council have considered resolutions on privacy in the digital age every year, each taking turns to pass the text biennially. The series of resolutions have progressively elaborated intern...
UN: To protect privacy in the digital age, world governments can and must do more As State and corporate actors continue to maximize data collection and retention, governments worldwide must take concrete measures to address existing and emerging threats to affirm and safeguard the fundamental human right to privacy. Since the Snowden Revelations of mass surveillance in 2013, the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly and U.N. Human Rights Council have considered resolutions on privacy in the digital age every year, each taking turns to pass the text biennially. The series of resolutions have...
Access Now 17 December 2020 | 10:00 am As we mark the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring, we, the undersigned activists, journalists, and human rights organizations, have come together to voice our frustration and dismay at how platform policies and content moderation procedures all too often lead to the silencing and erasure of critical voices from marginalized and oppressed communities across the Middle East and North Africa. The Arab Spring is historic for many reasons, and one of its outstanding legacies is how activists and citizens have used social media to push for politic...