- Secure Tools for Activists: When to Make Designs and When to Make Demands What tech tools should human rights defenders use when balancing efficacy and safety - open source secure tools or insecure mainstream platforms? Morgan Hargrave unpacks the pros and cons of each and discusses the WITNESS strategy.
- Metadata Month — October 2014 Tech News Digest The contextual information that’s embedded in all of your media holds great promise for making good citizen reporting easier to find, verify and put to use.
- Human Rights Video and the Open Internet – September 2014 Tech News Digest This post is the beginning of a monthly series on technology and human rights in the news, written by our technology advocacy team. This month, we look at net neutrality and the work of the Global Net Neutrality Coalition.
- Metadata is Powerful, and the NSA Knows It We believe in the positive power of metadata, but citizens won't use it until they are in control of their own content.
- The Best (Potential) SXSW Sessions for 2015 We can use your help to vote two WITNESS suggested SXSW sessions into to the final round for 2015. We also share other worthy sessions to vote on.
- The US Supreme Court Agrees: Your iPhone Isn’t Just a Phone In a win for privacy advocates, the US Supreme Court recently ruled that police must get a warrant before searching the content of cellphones.
- How Video Metadata Can Help Rhinos, Not Poachers Information like geotags, a form of metadata, can help poachers find animals to hunt down, or allow the NSA to find out a lot about a potential target's movements. But should that prevent us from using social media entirely?