Digital Rights Weekly | April 19 - 23

Team CommUNITY team at digitalrights.community
Fri Apr 23 16:48:20 CEST 2021 

Hello Digital Rights Defenders!

Here is your weekly update on digital rights around the world for the
week of April 19 - 23. If you have any events, updates, job
opportunities, or resources you want to include in our next
newsletter, please send them our way here:
https://www.digitalrights.community/weekly-newsletter
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*** Upcoming Virtual Events ***

@ April 29 | Feminist Funding & Autonomous Resourcing | Glitter Meetup
Featured Guest: AWID
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/April_29_2021_GM

@ April 29 | Coffee Talk with Matt Mitchell
https://digitalrights.formstack.com/forms/cks38

@ May 5 | Africa Meetup
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Africa_Monthly_Meetups

@ May 6 | CKS: The Data Detox Kit and Engaging Audiences
https://digitalrights.formstack.com/forms/cks40

@ May 13 | CKS: Remote Online Harassment During COVID19: How To Study
Harm, Trauma and Violence Online with an Intersectional and Racial
Justice Lens
https://digitalrights.formstack.com/forms/cks39

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***A Primer on Surveillance Issues in the Disability Community ***

As privacy activists, we’re often called on to suggest alternatives to
technologies that spy on us and sell our data. For disabled people,
opting out of data sharing isn’t always the best choice. Sometimes
that choice is taken away from. What happens when the network effect
is the difference between getting support and being alone with some
tough decisions?

https://www.digitalrights.community/blog/primer-surveillance-in-disability-community


*** Internal Facebook Email Reveals Intent To Frame Data Scraping as
‘Normalized’ ***

An internal email accidentally leaked by Facebook to a journalist has
revealed the firm's intentions to frame a recent data scraping
incident as "normalized" and a "broad industry issue." Facebook has
recently been at the center of a data scraping controversy. Earlier
this month, Hudson Rock researchers revealed that information
belonging to roughly 533 million users had been posted online,
including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, and dates of birth.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-internal-email-reveals-intent-to-frame-data-scraping-as-broad-industry-issue-and-normalized/


*** Apple Will Let Parler Back on the App Store ***

Apple has approved Parler's return to the iOS app store following
improvements the social media company made to better detect and
moderate hate speech and incitement, according to a letter the iPhone
maker sent to Congress on Monday.

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/20/989115774/far-right-friendly-platform-parler-expected-to-return-to-app-store-next-week


*** Hong Kong's pro-Beijing Camp Wants to ‘Get Rid of’ Pro-democracy
Newspaper Apple Daily ***

Hong Kong's independent media are anticipating a sweeping purge of the
critical press in the coming weeks. In a public speech delivered on
“national security education day” on April 15, Police Chief Chris Tang
accused a few media outlets of “disseminating fake news” that “serves
the interests of foreign forces.

https://globalvoices.org/2021/04/20/hong-kongs-pro-beijing-camp-wants-to-get-rid-of-pro-democracy-newspaper-apple-daily/


*** Thailand: Draft Legislation To Strictly Control All Kinds of
Groups Could Crush Civil Society ***

Thailand’s Office of the Council of State put forward the Draft Act on
Operations of Not-for-Profit Organisations. Under the proposed
legislation, any group engaged in non-profit activities – no matter
how small, informal or unorganised – would be required to register
with the Ministry of Interior. Student groups, community
organisations, protest movements, artistic collectives, social clubs
and short-lived associations would all fall within the remit of the
law.

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/thailand-s-sweeping-associations-law-courts-disaster


*** Myanmar: Military Coup has Pushed Country’s Digital Economy to the
Brink of Collapse ***

The junta’s internet blockages have shut down
swathes of the online economy, its violence against civilians has left
many people afraid to leave their homes, and the coup has left the
country internationally isolated, disrupting the flow of money into
and around the country. A civil disobedience movement, which includes
massive workplace walkouts, has shut down banks and businesses. All
together, this has pushed Myanmar’s nascent digital economy to the
brink.

https://restofworld.org/2021/myanmars-military-coup-has-pushed-its-fledgling-digital-economy-to-the-brink-of-collapse/


*** Israeli Cyber Firm NSO Negotiates with Jordanian Intelligence ***

Israeli cyber intelligence firm NSO negotiated with the Jordanian
government in recent months on a deal to sell new spying technology.
Sources say the negotiations between NSO and the Jordanian government
started late last year.

https://www.axios.com/israeli-cyber-firm-nso-negotiates-with-jordan-dfbc49f1-6b2f-4907-b0fc-f36fbda4813d.html


*** Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, and Mozilla Will Not Join Google’s FLoC ***

Google is going it alone with its proposed advertising technology to
replace third-party cookies. Every major browser that uses the open
source Chromium project has declined to use it, and it’s unclear what
that will mean for the future of advertising on the web.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387492/google-floc-ad-tech-privacy-browsers-brave-vivaldi-edge-mozilla-chrome-safari


*** WhatsApp Spying Site Blames WhatsApp for Letting It Spy ***

The administrator of a website that let anyone enter the phone numbers
of two or more WhatsApp users, and see in an easy to understand
visualization when each person was using the app, potentially
indicating who was talking to who, has blamed WhatsApp for allowing
such a capability to exist.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7egej/whatsapp-spying-website-blames-whatsapp


*** “A Safer Web for Women” Comic Is Now Available in English and
Kiswahili by KICTANet ***

The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) has produced a comic strip
comic that explains violence against women online, and simplifies the
challenges faced by women online. The comic strip is available in
English and Kiswahili.

https://www.kictanet.or.ke/a-safer-web-for-women-comic-strip/


*** Open Call for Initiative for Digital Rights in Latin America ***

Indela's 2021 open call is seeking applications for amounts up to
US$25,000 that would be used to implement urgently needed digital
rights projects in Latin America that will be completed within a
six-month period. As in past years, each selected project will also
have the option of a specialized consultancy, intended to strengthen
the development and impact of the project, and/or the work of the
applicant organization. The open call will run from April 15 to May
15, 2021.

 https://indela.fund/en/our-support/


*** The Invisible Internet Project Needs Feedback! ***

The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private
network layer that provides protection for user activity, location and
identity. The software ships with a router that connects a user to the
network and applications for sharing, communicating and building.
Internews is conducting I2P website efficiency studies to understand
how users are interacting with specific pages and workflows. They are
seeking volunteers to participate in a virtual user testing session
that lasts 30 minutes. If you would like to take part or you have
questions please send an email to helen.kagumya at gmail.com with the
subject line “I2P user test”


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### Grants, Fellowships, & Awards ###

Send us your opportunities, and we will include them in our newsletter
and in our Fundraising Opportunities page!
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Fundraising_Opportunities

Indela
Deadline: May 15, 2021.
https://indela.fund/en/our-support/

Fondo para Organizaciones de Empoderamiento Cívico
Pulsante
Deadline: 30 April 2021
https://pulsante.org/

Latin America and Caribbean Small Grants Program
US Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL)
Deadline: 7 May 2021
https://www.state.gov/statements-of-interest-requests-for-proposals-and-notices-of-funding-opportunity/drl-fy20-latin-america-and-caribbean-small-grants-program/

Internet Freedom Fund
Open Technology Fund
Deadline: Rolling Basis
https://www.opentech.fund/funds/internet-freedom-fund/

Rapid Response Fund
Open Tech Fund
Deadline: Rolling Basis
https://www.opentech.fund/funds/rapid-response-fund/

Rapid Response Fund
Derechos Digitales
Deadline: Rolling Basis
https://www.derechosdigitales.org/sobre-el-fondo-de-respuesta-rapida/

Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights
Deadline: Rolling Basis
https://urgentactionfund.org/

The Numun Fund
Deadline: Rolling Basis
https://numun.fund/

Doria Feminist Fund
Deadline: Rolling Basis
https://www.doriafeministfund.org/

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### Events Calendar ###

Feminist Funding & Autonomous Resourcing | Glitter Meetup
Featured Guest: AWID
+  April 29
9am EST / 1pm UTC
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/April_29_2021_GM

Coffee Talk with Matt Mitchell
+ April 29
12pm EST / 4pm UTC+0
https://digitalrights.formstack.com/forms/cks38

Africa Meetup
+ May 5
3pm CAT / UTC+2
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Africa_Monthly_Meetups

CKS: The Data Detox Kit and Engaging Audiences
+ May 6
10am EDT / 4pm UTC+2
https://digitalrights.formstack.com/forms/cks40

Security and Protection Management for Human Rights Defenders and
Social Organisations
+ May 10th - July 31st, 2021
https://www.protectioninternational.org/en/news/e-learning-programme-new-edition-security-and-protection-management-human-rights-defenders-and

CKS: Remote Online Harassment During COVID19: How To Study Harm,
Trauma and Violence Online with an Intersectional and Racial Justice
Lens
+ May 13
2pm EDT / 6pm UTC+0
https://digitalrights.formstack.com/forms/cks39

MENA Meetup
+ May 20
5pm Central Africa Time (UTC+2) / 11am EST (UTC-4)
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/MENA_Monthly_Meetups

Virtual School of Internet Governance
+ September 6, 2021 - November 14, 2021
https://www.virtualsig.org/2021/01/17/group-e-registration-sept-6-2021/

IFF Glitter Meetup
Every Thursday
9am EST | 2pm UTC | 10pm UTC+8
Mattermost - IFF Square Channel
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Glitter_Meetup

Check out a list of our virtual events here:
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Calendar_of_Events

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### Job Opportunities ###

To view the complete list of jobs or post a job, visit the Team
CommUNITY Job Board: https://www.digitalrights.community/job-board

✎ Cybercrime Editor | OCCRP
+ Remote (UTC+0 to UTC+4)
https://www.occrp.org/en/occrp-jobs/cybercrime-editor

✎ Major Gifts Officer | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3043996?gh_src=f1e5981d1us

✎ Principal Database Architect | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3067771?gh_src=0566f0b81us

✎ Communications Associate | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3065996?gh_src=bc225cf41us

✎ Digital Media Fellow | The Immigration Hub
+ Remote or Washington DC, US
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b60b2381aef1dbe876cd08f/t/60775d8350e464703b259352/1618435460162/Digital+Media+Fellow+-+Immigration+Hub.pdf

✎ Browser Developer | The Tor Project
+ Remote
https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/tor-browser-developer/

✎ Senior Program Officer, Community Resources | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2593567?gh_src=5171ab331us

✎ Program Associate, Global Technology Program | Internews
+ Remote in USA
https://phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf04/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=INTERNEWS&cws=38&rid=1398

✎ Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Traffic) |
Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3062527?gh_src=00f1d91d1us

✎ Researcher / Writer | GreatFire
+ Remote
https://applecensorship.com/were-hiring/

✎ Manager, Developer Advocacy (Engineering) | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2601244?gh_src=214108de1us

✎ Communications and Engagement Assistant (Freedom Online Coalition) |
Global Partners Digital
+ United Kingdom
https://apply.workable.com/j/097CC61949

✎ Risk and Security Manager | BuzzFeed
+ New York City, NY, US
https://boards.greenhouse.io/buzzfeed/jobs/2960547?gh_jid=2960547

✎ Senior Systems Administrator | OCCRP
+ Remote
https://www.occrp.org/en/occrp-jobs/senior-systems-administrator

✎ Digital Safety Specialist - Asia (Singapore) | Access Now
+ Singapore
https://accessnow.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=59&source=aWQ9MjA%3D

✎ Digital Safety Specialist - Asia (Manila) | Access Now
+ Manila
https://accessnow.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=58&source=aWQ9MjA%3D

✎ Grants & Contracts Manager (Location Options) | Access Now
+ New York City or Washington, DC, US
https://accessnow.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=57&source=aWQ9MjA%3D

✎ Senior Software Engineer, Wikimedia Enterprise | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3045883?gh_src=92c1aeb01us

✎ Senior Development Officer (Endowment) | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3043996?gh_src=f1e5981d1us

✎ Director, Technology and Human Rights | Human Rights Watch
+ Multiple locations considered
https://boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightswatch/jobs/5175419002

✎ Senior Endowment Gift Officer | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3043996?gh_src=f1e5981d1us

✎ Senior Accountant | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3040848?gh_src=e07d3b921us

✎ Senior Data Analyst (Contract) | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3037678?gh_src=95caf2721us

✎ Senior Product Manager, Structured Data | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3036235?gh_src=2a5bc25d1us

✎ Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Search Platform | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2439659?gh_src=ba50d29d1us

✎ Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3027032?gh_src=9e4941fd1us

✎ Security Intelligence Intern | New York Times
+ NYC, New York, US
https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Intern-Biz/job/New-York-NY/Security-Intelligence-Intern_REQ-009636

✎ Privacy Program Manager | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3028694?gh_src=8b9d47e61us

✎ Marketing Manager | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3018884?gh_src=41f593fb1us

✎ Senior Consultant, Business Intelligence | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3014737?gh_src=a0744e231us

✎ BASICS Specialist - Testing and Quality Assurance | Internews
+ Remote
https://phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf04/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=INTERNEWS&cws=38&rid=1392

✎ Internet Freedom and Emerging Technologies Specialist | Cherokee
Nation Mission Solutions
+ Washington, DC, US
https://ejvp.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/6245/?utm_medium=jobshare

✎ Compliance and Information Security Project Manager | New York Times
+ NYC, US
https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Tech/job/New-York-NY/Compliance-and-Information-Security-Project-Manager_REQ-009434

✎ Director of Application Security | New York Times
+ NYC, US
https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NYT/job/New-York-NY/Director-of-Application-Security_REQ-009438-1

✎ Engineering Manager | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2571631?gh_src=6d7790a91us

✎ Trust & Safety Specialist (Disinformation) | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2982708?gh_src=804c628a1us

✎ Systems Architect, Data | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2976623?gh_src=b4da82361us

✎ Digital Policy Specialist II/Senior Digital Policy Specialist (9-10) | DAI
+ Bethesda, MD, US
http://phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf04/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=DAINC&cws=1&rid=5840

✎ Director Of Programs | Media Democracy Fund
+ Remote
https://mediademocracyfund.org/news/mdf-is-hiring-a-director-of-programs

✎ Movement Advocacy Community Manager | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2964280?gh_src=43c4023a1us

✎ Senior Staff Researcher | Mozilla
+ Berlin, Toronto or Remote
http://careers.mozilla.org/position/gh/2955585/

✎ Director - Finance | Access Now
+ New York / Washington DC, US
https://accessnow.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=53&source=aWQ9MjA%3D

✎ Research Community Officer | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2950273?gh_src=5d252e191us

✎ Senior Manager, Movement Communications | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2941814?gh_src=d0c7314c1us

✎ Principal Internal Communications Lead | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2947481?gh_src=c5f42f931us

✎ Product Manager, Data | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2946567?gh_src=f4f3fa901us

✎ Bookkeeper | Access Now
+ NYC or Washington, DC, US
https://accessnow.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=50&source=aWQ9MjA%3D

✎ Summer 2021, Speech Privacy & Technology Project Undergaduate Intern | ACLU
+ Remote
https://boards.greenhouse.io/acluinternships/jobs/5102813002#application

✎ Trust and Safety Specialist | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2932500?gh_src=c91c06d91us

✎ Technology & Design Manager | Libraries Without Borders
+ Washington D.C, US
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ihz9H8zuYcOJtUgE_ihLCS-ZNdVrAKSeXP4g5pqOyn4/edit?usp=sharing

✎ Front-end Developer | Permanent
+ Austin, TX, US
https://www.permanent.org/jobs/

✎ Lead Communications Specialist | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2927041?gh_src=ed25ad791us

✎ Joseph S. Nye Internships | Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
+ Remote
https://www.cnas.org/careers/internships

✎ Program Associate | Witness
+ Remote
https://www.witness.org/program-associate-technology-threats-and-opportunities/

✎ Program Coordinator | Witness
+ Remote
https://www.witness.org/program-coordinator-technology-threats-and-opportunities/

✎ Senior Counsel | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2830789?gh_src=2955deea1us

✎ Senior Software Engineer, Parsing | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2815346?gh_src=ddc3331c1us

✎ Digital Support Helpdesk Officer - MENA | Internews
+ Flexible
https://phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf04/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=INTERNEWS&cws=38&rid=1346

✎ Senior Public Policy Specialist | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2793933?gh_src=787fa6c01us

✎ Multiple tech consultancies | Creative Associates International
+ Washington DC, US or Remote
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=107a8a7a2d5a45a3bf990cfcbada1cd0

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