Iran has partially restored internet access after what has been described as the world’s longest nationwide blackout on record. For some, this raises suspicions of expanded surveillance
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/28/iran-internet-blackout-return-partial-connectivity via @guardian
Amnesty International has just released an alarming new report showing how tech companies extract data from billions of online posts without consent, infringing on privacy and ramping up racial and gender biases, opening up "a risk of mass abuse of human rights" 👇️
It takes the average person less than 10 minutes to dismantle guardrails on Meta and Google AI models
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Deepfakes are designed to manufacture doubt & suppress voices of those who document the dangers. None of this is inevitable. It's a choice. Speakers at re:publica 26 in Berlin laid out how we can arm ourselves to fight back
Thought you could opt-out of having your data harvested, shared or sold when using dating apps or AI platforms? New research reveals a range of sneak arounds deployed to con users into giving up their personal information, @wired reports. Google, Meta and OpenAI are among the offenders
Read the full story in Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/data-brokers-and-ai-firms-opt-out-forms-are-built-to-fail-report-finds/
Civil society in South Africa has sounded the alarm over shortcomings in a new whistleblower protection law. Concerns raised include weak enforcement provisions and no independent oversight or emergency safeguards.
In a country with a high assassination rate of whistleblowers, these should be taken seriously. But SA's Justice Minister refuses to extend public comment period
The bill will now be expedited for parliamentary review, before being voted into law.
Corruption investigations in France have reached a record high – up 300% since 2016, with a year-on-year increase of 35%, @mediapart reports
Whistleblower protection has never been more pressing
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