🌏 Hands Off Our Minds is a forward-looking privacy-first social campaign for raising awareness about mental privacy.
🚀 Our mission is to create a world where privacy-by-design is accepted as a basic human right.
☮️ We believe people who use the technology should be in charge of shaping the rules that affect their lives.
Present research interest in understanding how VR and real-world environments interact and how perceptions of animals can be manipulated in the VR world.
#research #vr #virtualreality #privacy #privacymatters #mentalprivacy #physicalprivacy #neural #brain #metaverse #neurorights
⚠️ Emerging tech and concepts can be mind-boggling, but we must not lose sight of the underlying implications and future direction of big tech.
#metaverse #worldscraping #connectedworlds #brain #swarming #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #privacymatters
⚠️ Human rights lawyers need to pay attention to "legalised secrecy" laws that allow human rights violations to be carried out with impunity.
#humanrights #civilsociety #privacy #privacymatters #science #tradesecrets #nationalsecurity
🌎 ❓ How many data centres are needed for a persistent digital world - the Metaverse? Who's doing the calculations?
#datacentres #metaverse #privacy #privacymatters #hdt #5g #6g #ai #xr #blockchain #iot #sdn
🩹 A band-aid solution to a social menace - Smart Glasses.
#smartglasses #privacy #privacymatters #mentalprivacy #physicalprivacy #socialmenace #surveillance #luxurysurveillance
❓ Potential rules to fight-back against "luxury surveillance tech" - Smart Glasses.
📕 These laws were never enacted with the kind of citizen surveillance we are faced with today in mind, but it's a good start and laws can change and adapt to changing social needs.
#privacy #privacymatters #mentalprivacy #physicalprivacy #luxuarysurveillancetech #smartglasses #australia
⚠️ Faceprint is likely making a come-back, making our faces in public places vulnerable to non-consensual scans, biometric identification and save on remote devices, potentially looked over by 3rd party contractors for content moderation.
⚠️ Meta's internal documents (as reported by Wired, EFF and others) suggest the use of volatile political situation to hoodwink the consumer rights advocates - "shock doctrine" in action.
#privacy #shockdoctrine #meta #smartglasses #privacymatters #nametag
⚠️ Faceprint is likely making a come-back, making our faces in public places vulnerable to non-consensual scans, biometric identification and save on remote devices, potentially looked over by 3rd party contractors for content moderation.
⚠️ Meta's internal documents (as reported by Wired, EFF and others) suggest the use of volatile political situation to hoodwink the consumer rights advocates - "shock doctrine" in action.
#privacy #shockdoctrine #meta #smartglasses #privacymatters #nametag
2/ That’s why before rushing ahead, with no brakes, we need a robust regulatory framework. Every other industry in this country, from forestry to banking, is regulated. Yet somehow, when it comes to generative AI that is controlled by MAGA-aligned billionaires, the usual rules don’t apply.
New Democrats support the development of cutting edge technology. For AI, that looks like responsible machine learning with small, contained datasets and targeted applications.
We’re calling for a humans-first AI strategy. One that protects Canadian jobs, data and natural resources. Not a strategy that mimics the worst tendencies of AI chatbots: hallucinating benefits and flattering big tech CEOs by telling them exactly what they want to hear.
Privacy and human dignity matters, the lack of it is at the core of problems facing society - climate crisis, big tech overreach, sliding democratic values.
We cannot give-up and cannot give-in. This is the warning call to take-back control of our privacy.
Avi Lewis