Amnesty Tech

It has been a big week for documentaries exposing the harms of social media algorithms - Molly vs the Machines, Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere, and now Inside the Rage Machine reveals leaked internal documents - pulling back the curtain on how these systems really work.

.@amnesty is asking Meta to act now: strengthen safeguards, respond quickly to harmful content & ensure its platforms do not contribute to human rights abuses in Bangladesh.

Around the world, misinformation, disinformation, incitement & coordinated harassment on social media have fuelled real-world discrimination, violence & other human rights abuses. In Bangladesh this could heighten the risk of sectarian violence.

🚨Rising harmful online content in Bangladesh, including misinformation & sectarian narratives targeting minority communities could result in serious human rights abuses if left unaddressed. Online harms do not stay online. They are real & cause harm. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

These measures must remain in place until the company can demonstrate that it is not contributing to Israel’s genocide, apartheid, unlawful occupation or other crimes under international law.

@Amnesty is calling on NHS England, the UK government and all other public institutions to use their leverage from their investments, including by responsibly divesting from Palantir and ceasing the purchase of equipment and services from the company.

🚨@Amnesty supports the latest briefing by @Medact (an organization bringing together health workers in the UK) urging hospitals to not use Palantir software, demanding that NHS (National Health Services) England cancels the contract entirely. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

.@amnesty is calling for the overhaul of the surveillance-based business model that drives these platforms and for platforms like TikTok to shape feeds based on active choices instead of toxic profiling. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Given the severity of the harms, we understand why some are proposing to ban teenagers from these platforms, but bans are a blunt tool. They fail to reflect the complex reality of children’s needs online.

🚨 "I have no doubt the internet killed my daughter." The words of Ian Russell, the father of Molly, a British teenage girl who took her own life after exposure to harmful content giving a eulogy in a film about her life released today by @Channel4. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Read the report ‘Breaking Free: Pathways to a Fair Technological Future’ by the Norwegian Consumer Council on how to resist the ever-worsening quality of digital services and products. forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

.@Amnesty & 27 other NGOs are calling on @EU_Commission to robustly enforce existing laws #DMA #DSA #GDPR to regulate Big Tech companies rather than watering them down. Weak enforcement allows these companies to continue its damaging practices at the cost of fundamental rights

We are finally seeing consequences for those involved in the abuse of surveillance technology. We hope this landmark ruling signals the end of the era of impunity for the surveillance industry. bit.ly/4aB27VC

Σχεδόν 4 χρόνια μετά το σκάνδαλο Predatorgate βλέπουμε επιτέλους τις συνέπειες για όσους εμπλέκονται στην κατάχρηση της τεχνολογίας παρακολούθησης. Παραμένουν τα ερωτήματα σχετικά με τον ρόλο της 🇬🇷 κυβέρνησης η οποία αρνείται συστηματικά ότι αγόρασε ή χρησιμοποίησε το Predator.

🚨 A Greek court has convicted four people linked to spyware maker, Intellexa, for illegally accessing private communications. This landmark ruling should signal the end of impunity in the surveillance industry. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Today EU and Angolan ministers meet in Brussels - an opportunity for both sides to act to curb spyware abuses. A recent @amnesty investigation underlines the real-world cost of the development, sale and use of spyware technologies.

States must urgently course‑correct the current AI trajectory, adopt binding guardrails that draw clear prohibitions around technologies that are incompatible with human rights.

To date, AI summits have failed to advance the necessary regulations for a digitally safe future. If there is one clear takeaway from the India AI Impact Summit, it is that these gatherings have time and again proven largely irrelevant and ineffective

🚨The AI Summit in India failed to rein in destructive practices of governments & tech companies. The rhetoric stood in stark contrast with the realities of harmful deployment of AI systems in India powering a state-led agenda of authoritarian practices. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…