Next week, from July 8th to 11th, WITNESS will be joining a group of experts and policymakers at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva, Switzerland. Organized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in partnership with the Swiss Government and other 40 United Nations agencies
The U.S. Congress is proposing a ban on state level laws or regulation of AI for 10 years. This is a dangerous proposition that has the potential to harm human rights and innovation.
WITNESS joins civil society organizations from around the world calling on Mark Zuckerberg to work with civil society to address dangerous content on Facebook, ensure that a thorough audit of Facebook India takes place, and place Ankhi Das on administrative leave while the audit is being conducted.
We look forward to engaging in the PAI to address critical challenges around key focus areas of our Tech Advocacy work including misinformation and disinformation and privacy.
Our Senior Program Manager Priscila Neri talks to NBC News about how WhatsApp became linked to mob violence and fake news.
Our program director talks to NED about deepfakes threats and the role they play in the disinformation landscape.
Here’s what our program director and other human rights leaders had to say about what it takes to care for justice in the world.
We strongly believe that filming for human rights and posting it online must not be criminalized.
We joined other leading human rights organizations to ask Google how the censorship plan in China upholds international human rights.
Gabriela Ivens will be working with our Tech+Advocacy team where she will be working on issues around the safe, ethical, and effective use of video in documenting human rights violations.