Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch: at least six EU member states, including Poland and Denmark, have sold surveillance tech to 24+ countries known for violating human rights

Human Rights Watch finds the LAION-5B AI dataset scraped 170+ images and the personal info of Brazilian children without consent; LAION pledges to remove them

A popular AI training dataset is “stealing and weaponizing” the faces of Brazilian children without their knowledge or consent, human rights activists claim.

Human Rights Watch finds 89% of 164 remote learning apps and sites used during the pandemic in 49 countries shared student data with marketers and data brokers

China's border guards close to Xinjiang install Android malware on tourists' devices that scans for 70K+ files and downloads texts, calendar entries, phone logs

An APK Chinese authorities load onto the Android phones … Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : China installs a surveillance app on tourists' phones while crossing in the Xinjiang Harper Neidig / T...

Human Rights Watch: Chinese tech giants like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent discriminate against women in some job listings by posting “men only” job ads, more

Qualifications for the job: Must be a man  —  Silicon Valley isn't the only tech hub guilty of widespread gender discrimination.

Human Rights Watch, Free Press and 15 other rights groups call on Twitter to restore API access to Politwoops

Human Rights Watch, Transparency Groups Condemn Twitter's Politwoops Ban  —  Last month, Twitter revoked access to its API from Politwoops, a network of sites that automatically archived the deleted t...