- Why WITNESS Doesn’t Have a Privacy Policy Why WITNESS is joining on to the That's Not Privacy campaign - an effort encourage companies, nonprofits, and website owners of all stripes to call their privacy policies something a little more accurate.
- WITNESS Joins Call for the Creation of UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy WITNESS joins a growing coalition of privacy, human rights, and civil liberties organizations who are uniting to call for the United Nations Human Rights Commission to add a Special Rapporteur on Privacy.
- Security for All – November 2014 Tech News Digest Privacy shouldn't be an afterthought for anyone designing online tools. Digital security, while extremely important for human rights activists, should be accessible to everyone.
- 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.
- WITNESS Picks – August 1, 2014 Edition Our weekly roundup includes reports on possible proof of war crimes committed in Syria, predictive software for social upheaval, online privacy compromised and new online privacy tools, and a cautionary tale about metadata via cat photos.
- Building Bridges Between Activists and the Tech and Media Communities WITNESS Executive Director, Yvette Alberdingk-Thijm and Program Director, Sam Gregory speak on media, technology and social change at Internet Week New York 2014.
- Human Rights Tech and the 10-year Anniversary of Martus! Program Director Sam Gregory discusses human rights tech, InformaCam and the 10 year anniversary of human rights documentation tool, Martus.
- L6g49CARAAhP660rO9DCn4W3L: Email and Chat Encryption Basics for Activists Activists everywhere face the violations of their right to privacy especially in their online communications. We share basics of encryption that may help keep you, your networks and your communications safer.
- WITNESS Endorses International Principles on Human Rights & Surveillance We join 150+ organizations from 40+ countries supporting these 13 principles that explain how international human rights law applies to the current digital environment.
- A Few Reasons Activsts Shouldn’t be Banned from the Internet Last month on Human Rights Day (December 10th) I wrote an opinion piece for the HuffingtonPost about the increasingly important role technology companies and platforms are playing in the human rights landscape.
- U.S. Needs Strong Privacy Protections for Digital Communications One of the most cherished rights in the United States is the Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable government searches, which has long protected the privacy of Americans’ homes and communications. But as technology has rapidly advanced, this right—long a crown jewel of U.S. civil liberties—has not been fully applied to protect digital communications.
- Setting a Global Standard for Human Rights and Technology Companies In a world with more than five billion mobile phone subscribers and where 48 hours of video footage is being uploaded to YouTube every minute, the challenges navigating the nexus of human rights and technology are too complicated for any single company or human rights activist to manage on their own.
- Your Ideas on Human Rights and Free Expression on YouTube This is the fourth in an occasional blog series about human rights video, written by Steve Grove, Head of News & Politics at YouTube, and Sameer Padania, former Hub Manager at WITNESS, cross-posted from YouTube’s blog. As always, we welcome your comments and feedback.
