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tech policy | privacy, freedom of expression, platform accountability, oGBV, AI & others. @APC_News @GenderITorg. Ex @mmfd_Pak. 🇵🇸

Pakistan, Canada
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@hijakamran
Hija Kamran
4 years
Unlike most countries, Pak's cybercrime law gives victims of image based violence protection to seek justice. But having a law isn't enough when legal sys is broken. I write w @_meher on the story of a girl struggling to have her abuser arrested since 2019.
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The country has passed some of the strongest laws against online abuse in the world. But enforcing them is another story.
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Microsoft's complicity in israeli war crimes is not surprising, rather it is an indication that tech corporations must be held equally accountable for directly assisting the genocidal regime in carrying out its genocide in Palestine.
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It's too convenient to deny knowledge of a critical contract with a military of a regime involved in decades of human rights violations, and is known to have used other advanced tech against Palestinians, w businesses that provide this tech to authoritarian govts worldwide.
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A source quoted in the article said,. // “You don’t have to be a genius to figure it out,” one source said. “You tell [Microsoft] we don’t have any more space on the servers, that it’s audio files. It’s pretty clear what it is.” //.
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israel is using microsoft's cloud Azure to store phone call audios between Palestinians collected through mass surveillance. This data has led to violent airstrikes on civilians, & continues to assist in murder of men, women & children. Microsoft's response? "We were not aware."
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Recent report revealing Microsoft's role in the israeli war crimes in Palestine, is a reminder that tech companies are complicit. For PR-obsessed corporates the size of microsoft, everything goes through strict due diligence. How did they miss this?.
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Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
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People are being doxxed by a feature that the app doesn't even let you turn off completely. It's only a matter of time before yet another offline harm is caused to people because of the greed of big tech. 3/3.
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That location tag is not more important than yours & your family's safety. IP addresses have long been used to determine estimated location of someone, but now Instagram is forcing people to share their locations on its Maps feature. 2/.
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Keep your device location off when not in use. Also go to your settings > permission manager > remove location permissions for instagram (and any other app that does not need to access your location). Review other permissions while at it. 1/.
@JennyENicholson
Jenny Nicholson
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@moldxD They use IP address if you have location off
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RT @IFEX: #Pakistan 🇵🇰 @hijakamran warns about how the "gendered violence, digital repression, economic instability, growing political pola….
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Hija Kamran
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RT @HashashinTag: I am begging you please read every word of this
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Sources:. - - - - some commentary:
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Hija Kamran
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- May '25: EU made almost $70M off of rejected applications from Africa.- June '24: UK made £5.3M through rejected apps only from Pakistan; EU made €3.34M.- 2024: EU made €14M from rejected visas from India. First they colonised us, then they stole from us, now they exploit us.
@fiyinsiku
Fiyin
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When a visa application is denied and all the money is kept by the embassy? Now, that is fraudulent behaviour.
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Zios freaking out about a fictional character doing fictional things in a fictional storyline is hilarious. The shoe is fitting perfectly, it seems.
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Hija Kamran
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RT @thestrangerobot: FYI, I am open to work!. I build design & interaction solutions for digital rights orgs, non-profits and artists. Als….
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Hija Kamran
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RT @EyeonPalestine: Are you?
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Hija Kamran
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Jstor killed Aaron Swartz because he believed knowledge should be available to everyone for free. Now the entire AI industry is built on and fueled by stolen work with only the same multi-million dollar companies as beneficiaries.
@MushtaqBilalPhD
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD
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JSTOR just launched an AI-powered reading assistant for research papers. Here's how to use it:.
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Hija Kamran
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Western digital rights orgs "expressing concern" over the internet shutdown in Iran (rightly so) but silent on israel's destruction of all comms infrastructure in Palestine - we see you and your undying support for zionist regime.
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Hija Kamran
2 months
Always the right time to remind people that the @signalapp cannot be spied on as of now by the insane zio illegal occupation regime's invasive tech.
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2 months
Somebody finally realize that Zionists are spying on everyone via WhatsApp, not just Iran?.
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Hija Kamran
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Feminist AI this, ethical AI that. But what even are those? Are they even possible given the extractive nature of the tech behind AI? I wonder.
@GenderITorg
GenderIT.org
2 months
⚙️What does a truly feminist future for AI look like? What must we refuse to accept in the name of innovation? . @hijakamran questions the very DNA of AI that rests on violent extractive processes, & asks whether a #FeministAI is possible.
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Hija Kamran
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RT @hasanthehun: the media is already working in real time to manufacture consent for how israel is still the victim after its direct strik….
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