Data Privacy and the city - Following a complaint filed in 2019 by Access Now and Women’s Rights Online partner, Hiperderecho regarding the legality of its surveillance system, the Municipality of La Victoria in Peru has been barred by the country’s Personal Data Protection Authority from processing personal data collected via surveillance cameras without security measures ➤ Access Now (article in Spanish)
Algorithms and AI
Artificial intelligence - Why are scientists concerned about the growth of AI language skills? ➤ AP NEWS
Estimated number of labour organisations from across the world that have called on Meta to stop attempts to silence South African whistleblower Daniel Motaung ➤ Quartz Africa
Content Moderation
Meta’s Human Rights Report flops among experts - Human rights groups dismissed the report as “corporate propaganda” and failed to take responsibility for exacerbating political tensions both in the US and abroad ➤ Gizmodo
Facebook’s African content moderators - Over 80 labour organisations from across the world have called on Meta to cease attempts to silence South African whistleblower Daniel Motaung, who was fired for leading unionisation efforts seeking better pay and mental health support for workers at Sama, the tech giant’s Nairobi-based content moderation subcontractor ➤ Quartz Africa
Misinformation as a business tactic? - A social media monitoring firm has claimed that a growing number of companies are using bots or fake accounts to run smear campaigns against their competitors on social media ➤ BBC
"The question is not whether Mark Zuckerberg will have a sudden moral awakening one of these days, but when policymakers will subject tech giants to actual accountability."
Jesse Lehrich,co-founder of Accountable Tech | Gizmodo
Bytes and Pieces
Cyber-slave syndicates - While Chinese cyber-scam operations are causing havoc in the lives of their victims around the world, the story behind these operations isn’t as clearcut as it seems ➤ Al Jazeera
Uber Files - Leaked documents show the dubious methods the company used to gain entry into non-Western markets ➤ Rest of World
Data from The Alliance for Affordable Internet’s Meaningful Connectivity Report and its Rural Report were cited in a piece in New Telegraph Nigeria on how to bridge the broadband penetration gap in Africa.
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