What does the digital space for women in Palestine look like?

Check out this video that shows some facts and figures from our latest research 'Violating Network'

Check out the full research: cutt.ly/G1lJIBA

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“Lenders were 40% more likely to turn down Latino applicants for loans, 50% more likely to deny Asian/Pacific Islanders, and 70% more likely to deny Native Americans than similar white applicants. Lenders were 80% more likely to reject Black applicants” apnews.com/article/lifest…

Iran Protests:

Turmoil at Twitter doesn't just risk our personal accounts but the global community's ability to get information from Iran

Mahsa @Maasalan Alimardani of @Article19org explains why Twitter is so important to protest movements
#مهسا_امینی
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ID.me Lied About Its Facial Recognition Tech, Congress Says vice.com/en_us/article/…

Online mobs are going after student journalists.
“I hope when our society wakes again you are lined up and shot,” read one text to a journalist after an article. Dozens of others berated her appearance, threatened her, and called her misogynistic slurs. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Do you file your taxes through companies like H&R Block, TaxAct, or TaxSlayer?

Simon Fondrie-Teitler | @[email protected] Angie Waller Colin Lecher found that companies are sending your:

💵 Income
💸 Refund amount
🩺 Health savings account usage
🎓 Dependents’ college scholarship amount

to Facebook.

Yup.

Remember how deepfakes were supposed to destroy society? They only destroy some women's lives so its totally fine.

They're also available as a service. E.g. ppl have services where they scrape FB pages of a person without consent & make a deefake of them for you. Totally fine.

The suspect in the brutal attack on Paul Pelosi embraced Gamergate and far-right conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and QAnon. His own words — taken from his online writings, which were removed after the attack — help fill out a picture of his life. nyti.ms/3tIKsFl

In the wake of Saturday's mass shooting at the queer club Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colo., advocates point to the increased anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric online and the numerous anti-LGBTQ+ bills drafted in recent months. advocate.com/crime/2022/11/…

Elon is not only firing people but he’s also tag-team trolling some of them with the worst accounts on this website, siccing multiple Twitter mobs on people who’ve worked their asses off for a company jack used to lead. 🦗🦗

Elon’s fans alone are awful. thedailybeast.com/what-its-like-…

If you are a woman delivering for DoorDash, you may run into a Marcus C.

Nearly a third of Uyghur-language Android apps shared on social media platforms or downloaded from third-party app stores since July are infected with spyware, according to cybersecurity firm Lookout bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Technology

Apple Sued for Allegedly Deceiving Users With Privacy Settings After Gizmodo Story gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-p…

Thanks to everyone who participated in our second digital privacy and security workshop with The Voice of Domestic Workers re:configure Waling Waling! Thank you Unite the union: join a union for hosting us ✊🏽

Read the guide: domesticworkerprivacy.github.io

it’s here!!

New from me: Twitter has spent much of Wednesday battling a wave of blue-check verified impostor accounts posing as Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, LeBron James and even Nintendo — just hours after Twitter launched its paid verification feature cnn.com/2022/11/09/tec…

ICYMI: I’ve been in Twitter Jail for sharing the official WHO protocol for medication abortion, which Twitter says is “promoting self-harm.” I’m a public health scientist with expertise in medication abortion—and the National Academies have a consensus report on its HIGH safety.

The Gas app lets high schoolers to send praise to each other, but a hoax has left the company facing violent threats and working overtime to save their platform. It’s not the first time this has happened.
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