Digital Rights Weekly | September 5 - 9

Thu Sep 8 21:11:33 CEST 2022

Hello Digital Rights Defenders!

Here is your weekly update on digital rights around the world for the
weeks of September 5 - 9. As a reminder, you can submit your news for
the newsletter here:
https://www.digitalrights.community/weekly-newsletter

###  Upcoming Virtual TCU Events ###

Sept 15 | Glitter Meetup: WhatsApp Pay and financial data monopolies
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/September_15_2022_GM

Sept. 21 | Lingua Cafe
https://digitalrights.formstack.com/forms/lingua_cafe_11

Sept 21 | Latin America Monthly Meetup
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/21_de_Septiembre,_2022_LATAM

Sept 22 | Glitter Meetup: Palestine under a digital panopticon: what can we do?
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/September_22_2022_GM

Sept 28 | Africa Monthly Meetup
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/September_28_2022,_Africa_Meetup

Sept 28 | MENA Monthly Meetup
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/September_28_2022,_MENA_Meetup
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## Team CommUNITY Update ##

Please note: We previously posted an incorrect date of our
Organizational Accountability Wheel session. It will take place on
NOVEMBER 2. Please update your calendars accordingly!
https://digitalrights.formstack.com/forms/chv2022_7

1. RVSP for the Community Health Village

Sign up for the 2022 Community Health Village, which looks at
individual, community and organizational pathways towards collective
healing.  You must RSVP for each session you are interested in
attending. Remember, some sessions have limited space, so sign up as
soon as you can.
https://www.digitalrights.community/blog/community-health-village-2022

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### Digital Rights in the Community ###

1. Funding Opportunity for Projects on Racism & Technology

The Racism and Technology Center is seeking to fund & support 3
project ideas. Funding for each project is €4,000 for 100h of work
over 6 months. Deadline: 31 Oct 2022.

https://racismandtechnology.center/2022/09/03/do-you-want-to-work-on-anti-racism-and-technology/

2.  Funding Opportunity Safety Net Fund for Women Human Rights Defenders

Are you a Woman Human Rights Defender? Are you working in a conflict
or crisis-affected environment? Apply today for the Women’s Peace and
Humanitarian Safety-Net Fund for amounts up to a maximum of $10,000.
The fund provide WHRDs the urgent support to ensure their protection
and secure participation in peace building efforts.

https://wphfund.org/whrds-safety-net/

3. Buscando Candidatos para Programa de de Mentoreo de IT Women

El Programa de Mentoreo de IT Women esta buscando candidatos
interesadas en producir un trabajo/investigación enmarcado en una de
las líneas y temas de investigación de LACNIC. Específicamente, con el
objetivo de promover la participación y el liderazgo de mujeres en el
ecosistema de Internet.

https://www.lacnic.net/4882/1/lacnic/programa-de-mentoreo-de-it-women

4. Conexo Publishes Practical Digital Security Resources

Conexo has published up-to-date, practical, step-by-step digital
security materials. Topics include password managers, 2FA, secure
internet browsing, encrypted email, secure messaging, cloud
encryption, and disk encryption. The guides are available in Spanish
and they can be of use to trainers, civil society organizations and
independent media. Conexo will work on keeping them updated.

https://conexo.org/project/guias-de-herramientas/

5. EFF  Publishes Investigation on Fog Data Science LLC, a Widely Used
Mass Surveillance Technology

EFF published their investigation based on public records acquired
from dozens of state and local law enforcement agencies and uncovered
a widely-used mass surveillance technology.  Fog Data Science LLC, a
previously unknown company, provides law enforcement with easy and
often warrantless access to the precise and continuous geolocation of
hundreds of millions of unsuspecting users, collected through their
smartphone apps and then aggregated by shadowy data brokers.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/what-fog-data-science-why-surveillance-company-so-dangerous

6. Privacy International Releases Response to US Supreme Court’s
Attack on Repro Rights

Privacy International released an extensive response to the U.S.
Supreme Court’s attack on reproductive rights. Their reporting
describes how The Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health decision is an
outlier. It is contrary to the bulk of international jurisprudence and
human rights guarantees. As such, it undermines fundamental privacy
guarantees that women around the world should rightly enjoy.
https://www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/4938/privacy-and-body-privacy-internationals-response-us-supreme-courts-attack

7. Virtual Activism Releases a Statement at the Cybercrime Convention

Virtual Activism (VA) submitted a statement to the Third Session of
the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International
Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications
Technologies for Criminal Purposes - known as the 'cybercrime
convention'. VA urged the Committee to consider removing articles that
are too broad, to re-write those that are too vague, and to refer to
those principles that have been agreed upon in prior conventions and
declarations. In addition to the wording, the statement also focused
on whistleblower protection and intermediary liabilities.

https://virtualactivism.org/2022/08/30/vas-statement-to-the-ad-hoc-committee-on-cybercrime/

8. Civil Society Organizations Warns the World Bank Against its ID4D Program

Access Now, Privacy International, NYU researchers, and other civil
society organizations wrote an open letter calling on the World Bank
to cease supporting unchecked digital ID systems that enable
surveillance, exclusion, and discrimination.

Through the institution's Identification for Development (ID4D)
Initiative, the World Bank helps establish new, or upgrade existing,
digital ID systems implemented by national governments. Often these
systems use digitized biometric data, rely on a centralized model —
risking data breaches — and consist of an ad-hoc bundling of public
and private services to keep the systems running. Often individual
rights and privacy are disregarded along the way.

https://www.accessnow.org/open-letter-to-the-world-bank-digital-id-systems/

9. EDRi Network Releases Position Paper on EU Law Amplifying Digital
Rights Risks

The EDRi network published its position paper on the proposed
Regulation on automated data exchange for police cooperation (“Prüm
II”). The European Commission’s Prüm II proposal fails to put in place
vital safeguards designed to protect users from state overreach and
authoritarian mass surveillance practices.

https://edri.org/our-work/new-eu-law-amplifies-risks-of-state-over-reach-and-mass-surveillance/

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### Digital Rights Resources ###

1. Free Online Course | Access to Information Laws & Policies

UNESCO and the Centre for Law and Democracy launched a course that
looks at how to access information held by public authorities. This
brand-new course is aimed at both requesters (demand-side) and
information providers (supply-side) and covers a wide range of both
conceptual and practical issues relating to Access to Information.

https://www.law-democracy.org/live/unesco-and-centre-for-law-and-democracy-launch-free-online-course-on-access-to-information-laws-and-policies/

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### Digital Rights in the Wider World ###

1. Flooding in Pakistan Compounds Internet Access Woes

Pakistanis are no strangers to internet shutdowns, either for a
singular application or extending to entire networks, and the
temporary shutdown of YouTube on some networks was widely believed to
be a hamfisted attempt to censor livestreaming of former Prime
Minister Imran Khan’s speech. At the same time, as the country
grappled with the largest flooding in living memory, national internet
shutdowns were experienced as communications infrastructure broke
down, and flooded areas were completely cut off from communication
networks.

https://news.trust.org/item/20220902091216-7u4zb

2. Taliban Continues Censorship as it Expands Network Coverage

While Afghans try to find Wi-Fi, the Taliban government is learning to
use the web like a blunt instrument. Activists and human rights
organizations say there continue to be targeted shutdowns to stifle
protest and restrict media reporting on violations in numerous
regions. The Taliban admits it blocked 23 million “immoral” websites.
The fear of surveillance or the ability of the Taliban to be able to
monitor browser history is also stunting freedom.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-31/taliban-continues-censorship-web-blocks-as-it-promises-4g

3. Cantonese: Stumping China’s Censorship?

Beijing’s sprawling internet censorship apparatus means that content
critical of the Chinese government rarely survives on the internet for
long. As a result, users have become adept at using code like
“Martian” language, emojis, and braille to evade censors. Sometimes,
even everyday language - and in this case Cantonese - is able to
confound online censorship mechanisms. It’s this ability of
“unofficial” lingua franca to cultivate a powerful and unique sense of
shared identity, distinct from and at odds with the state-sanctioned
national identity pushed by Beijing, that makes languages like
Cantonese potentially threatening to authoritarian governments.

https://qz.com/china-censors-stumped-by-cantonese-1849496778

4. UN | Human Rights Should be at the Heart of Tech Governance

In a panel discussion that looked at efficient ways of using new
technologies to overcome human rights challenges in the context of the
COVID-19 pandemic, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
reiterated the need for governments’ duty to protect citizens against
abuse and misuse of digital technologies.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2022/09/human-rights-should-be-heart-tech-governance

5. Egypt and Gulf Arab States Demand Netflix Remove 'Immoral Content'

Gulf Arab states have launched a coordinated campaign against
streaming giant Netflix, calling on it to remove "offensive" material
as they seek to regulate television content produced outside their
jurisdiction. Saudi Arabia issued a statement this week on behalf of
the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, saying the bloc has asked
Netflix to take down programming that violates Islamic values,
including some content directed at children. The United Arab Emirates,
which issued its own statement, said that Netflix violated local
regulations and "contradicts the country's societal value." Its media
watchdog would be monitoring Netflix's content "from now on" and will
take action if local laws are flouted. The statements did not specify
what content was causing offense but Saudi state-run Al Ekhbariya news
channel on Tuesday ran segments condemning the streaming service for
"promoting sexual deviance" to children, in an apparent reference to
homosexuality.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/media/netflix-gulf-warning-mime-intl/index.html

Egypt followed the day after, stating that Netflix’s content “is
anathema to their majority-Muslim societies”.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/world/middleeast/egypt-arab-gulf-states-netflix.html

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

The following opportunities are open to individual digital rights
defenders and to organizations. If you would like us to include a
grant, fellowship or award in this newsletter, please email details to
team at digitalrights.community
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Fundraising_Opportunities

Racism and Technology Center
Deadline: 31 Oct 2022.
https://racismandtechnology.center/2022/09/03/do-you-want-to-work-on-anti-racism-and-technology/

Safety Net Fund
Deadline: Ongoing
https://wphfund.org/whrds-safety-net/

Mentoreo de IT Women
Deadline: September 25, 2022
https://www.lacnic.net/4882/1/lacnic/programa-de-mentoreo-de-it-women

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/

Open Briefing’s Responsive Assistance
Deadline: Rolling Basis
https://www.openbriefing.org/support/referral/

Open Tech Fund | Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab
Deadline: Rolling
https://www.opentech.fund/labs/sua-lab/
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### Global Events Calendar ###

TecnoRizoma
August 17 - October 22
Online
https://tinyurl.com/TecnoRizomaCentroamerica

Lingua Cafe
September 21
10am EDT /  2pm UTC
https://digitalrights.formstack.com/forms/lingua_cafe_11

Latin America Meetup
September 21
6:30pm EDT / 10:30pm UTC
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/21_de_Septiembre,_2022_LATAM

Glitter Meetup: Palestine under a digital panopticon: what can we do?
September 22
9am EDT / 1pm UTC
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/September_22_2022_GM

Sex Work Therapist Training
September 22 - 23
2pm - 6pm CET
The European Sex Worker’s Rights Alliance
https://forms.gle/NLzGUg1ovKUQjyTQ6

Africa Meetup
September 28
9am EDT / 1pm UTC
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/September_28_2022,_Africa_Meetup

MENA Meetup
September 28
11am EDT / 3pm UTC
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/September_28_2022,_MENA_Meetup

"Understanding the Internet"
October 4
17:00–18:30 CEST
https://ripe85.ripe.net/programme/parallel-events/student-event/

Digital Health Week
October, 10 - 16
https://digitalhealthweek.co/

RIPE 85
October 24 - October 28
Hybrid: Belgrade & Online
https://ripe85.ripe.net/

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

Below is a short list of jobs we have been sent in the last week.

Want to see more jobs? OR Have a job opening you want us to promote?
Check out the Team CommUNITY Job Board:
https://www.digitalrights.community/job-board

✎ Multiple Positions | Civil Rights Defenders
+ Multiple Locations
https://crd.org/open-positions/

✎ Multiple Positions | Net Freedom Pioneers
+ Multiple Locations
https://www.netfreedompioneers.org/careers/

✎ Postdoctoral Researcher | University of Amsterdam (UvA)
+ Amsterdam, Netherlands
https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Information-Law/753984502/

✎ Humanitarian Officer | Access Now
+ Geneva (Switzerland), Paris (France), Brussels (Belgium), or Berlin (Germany)
https://accessnow.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=139&source=aWQ9MjA%3D

✎ Fundraising Lead | Tails
+ Remote
https://tails.boum.org/jobs/fundraising/

✎ Community Relations Specialist (contractor) | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
https://grnh.se/3e5490071us

✎ Senior Policy Counsel | Open Technology Institute - New America
+ Washington DC, USA
https://newamerica.applytojob.com/apply/noFYOwB2L6/

✎ Product Manager | Horizontal
+ Remote - Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, Asia-Pacific
https://wearehorizontal.org/job-post-product.html

✎ IT/Digital Security Specialist | Kamara
+ Remote
https://www.kamara.global/it-digisec-specialist

✎ Africa Regional Strategy Lead | Association for Progressive Communications
+ Remote
https://www.apc.org/en/news/job-call-africa-regional-strategy-lead

✎ Senior Director, Project Principal | Purpose
+ New York, USA
https://www.purpose.com/jobs/#job-id-4520859

✎ Consultant IT Audit Services | UHAI EASHRI
+ Nairobi
https://linktr.ee/UHAIEASHRI

✎ Wikimedia Foundation | Wikimedia Foundation
+ Remote
https://grnh.se/a2ca3f9b1us

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