Tag: WITNESS
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Privacy holes in the app economy
The tech world has finally woken up to the safety and privacy risks in the app economy. Path’s silent address book mining sparked widespread outrage, and has had ripples for lots of web services and mobile apps that had, until now, seen as “industry best practice” the long-term retention and mining of customers’ contacts (UPDATE:…
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Notes from Wilton Park, or The Internet Is Not A Horse
I’ve finally got around to posting my notes for a presentation I gave at a convening in May 2011 on Media, Social Media, and Democratic Governance at Wilton Park (here’s a PDF of the conference programme – and here’s some more about the history of Wilton Park). It was a few months before Cameras Everywhere was published, and it…
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Presentation at Wilton Park (May 2011)
I’m somewhat belatedly posting my notes for a presentation I gave at a convening in May 2011 on Media, Social Media, and Democratic Governance at Wilton Park (here’s a PDF of the conference programme, and POLIS Director, Charlie Beckett’s notes from his presentation are here.). —– “The Internet Is Not A Horse”: presentation at Wilton Park, May 2011 Over the…
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RightsCon panel today (Workshop 12, on visual content and human rights)
Today in San Francisco, I’m moderating a panel at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference. I’ll be joined by Steve Grove (formerly of YouTube, now of Google+), Sam Gregory of WITNESS, Hans Eriksson of Bambuser, and Thor Halvorssen of the Human Rights Foundation and Oslo Freedom Forum. You can watch the video live here, or…
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FT covers “Cameras Everywhere”
The FT’s Business Life Editor, Ravi Mattu (diclosure: Ravi’s an old friend) covered Cameras Everywhere in his FT column last Thursday (it’s paywalled, unfortunately): When the Egyptian government shut down the internet during the protests in Tahrir Square, it was seen as a form of repression. Should access to technology now be seen in the same way as access to, say,…
Sameer Padania 