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European Digital Rights. We defend your rights and freedoms online.
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1/8 🚨Today is a worrying day for all of us using online private communications: our personal chats & messages are at risk of being spied on at all times, as the
@EU_Commission
just proposed a Regulation laying down rules to detect & remove #CSAM online 🧵👇🏾
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‘I would like to thank EDRi for the excellent cooperation. It was useful for me during the process to be able to ask you, and get your advice’ on the DSA - DSA Lead MEP Christel
@SchaldemoseMEP
EDRi continues to advocate for robust & enforced laws that are centered on people!💪
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🚨 How can the EU's #AIAct better protect the rights of people on the move? With 28 experts on migration, Dr. Niovi Vavoula and I put together a letter to the
@Europarl_EN
, calling for amendments. We have yet to hear from them. Want a list of resources by some amazing groups?🧵
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🚨 The #AIAct must protect people on the move. Along with Dr. Niovi Vavoula, we brought together 26 international experts on migration and call on @Europarl_EN to: ✅ban harmful AI in migration ✅expand the "high risk" category ✅apply safeguards to EU migration databases 🧵
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This weekend the
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network gathered up in Berlin to join the first in-person General Assembly in 2 years! The day is kick-started with a speech from the Board President Anna Fielder, followed by a full day of strategic workshops🎉
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1/2 AI inequalities are a much more complicated problem than just a system design issue. To make a real difference to the experience of marginalised groups, lawmakers need to view AI in the wider context of structural discrimination, inequality & power.
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The EU #AIAct aims to protect the rights of all people affected by AI systems. But whose rights are we *really* talking about? In its current form, the Act is failing to address the harms to non-EU citizens and people on the move, argues @CaterinaRodelli: accessnow.org/eu-ai-act-migr
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The #AIAct fails to address the rising concerns about the use of AI for criminalising & discriminating against people on the move. But it's not too late to make the AI Act a vehicle for genuine protection of peoples’ fundamental rights, especially for marginalised groups. ⬇️
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🚨 The #AIAct must protect people on the move. Along with Dr. Niovi Vavoula, we brought together 26 international experts on migration and call on @Europarl_EN to: ✅ban harmful AI in migration ✅expand the "high risk" category ✅apply safeguards to EU migration databases 🧵
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1/ Digital tech is increasingly used in migration to judge and control people on the move in harmful ways, and the current EU proposal to regulate #AI fails to address this. But we still have time to change it. Hear more about what needs to change from our Alyna Smith. ⬇️
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8/9 The proposal envisions the creation of a supposedly “independent” EU Centre. But it will share a location, IT department, human resources, processes & more with the EU’s law enforcement agency, Europol.
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6/9 Platforms & message services that we use every day will be forced to read our private conversations. The Commission claims dangerous Client-Side Scanning practices are a viable solution to reduce the risk of abuse on platforms w/o any #HumanRights implications.
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5/9 By transferring the responsibility to companies, the Commission opens the door very wide for abuses, while closing its eyes to reality & shielding itself from responsibility for the collateral damage of its proposal.
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4/9 ‘We don’t care how you do it, we care about the outcome’ is what
@YlvaJohansson
in essence says
@EU_Commission
has washed its hands by claiming that the proposal doesn't put any specific requirements on providers but rather just requires them to achieve a specific objective.
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3/9 🤦🏽‍♀️The Commission sees #encryption - one of the few tools that we can trust to protect our information online - as a risk. Under the new proposal, privacy-friendly services like
@signalapp
may be forced to scan their users’ private messages.
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7/8 The #AIAct fails to address the rising concerns about the use of AI for criminalising & discriminating against people on the move. But it's not too late to make the AI act a vehicle for genuine protection of peoples’ fundamental rights, especially for marginalised groups.
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4/8 Asylum applications on sexual orientation grounds are often rejected as they rely on proving one's persecution with tech assessments that use tropes around non-heteronormative behaviour. This has resulted in grave discrimination & serious human rights abuses.
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3/8 States have been using surveillance tech to pre-empt & deter those seeking to apply for asylum. For example, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇮🇹 Italy & 🇪🇸 Spain increasingly rely on violent deterrence & ‘push back’ policies to prevent people from reaching Europe's shores.
"On 23 October 2020, a consortium of journalists, investigators, and researchers revealed that FRONTEX has been actively complicit in illegal pushbacks in the Aegean, intercepting boats and forcing them into opposing territorial waters instead of facilitating maritime rescue."
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