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Got to #ORGcon at last; first session is @NoelSharkey taking about "sublethal" drones. Some horrifying images here even before autonomous
Always good to hear things like autonomous weapons being unable reliably to distinguish between soldiers and civilians (!) #ORGcon
A single-pixel change in a 3D-printed turtle was enough to make the sensor recognise it as a rifle (!!) #ORGcon
Making good headway at the UN to get a treaty banning military use of these autonomous systems. That wouldn't prevent police use #ORGcon
It is legally impossible for an autonomous system to be capable of making assessments required to accord with the UN Right to Life #ORGcon
Autonomous "home defence" done gizmodo.com/meet-cupid-the… #ORGcon
First kill by US police robot was July 2016. Remember the danger of precedent—Jamie Bulger murder case led to ubiquitous CCTV in UK #ORGcon
From question, @NoelSharkey mentions unreliability of face recognition and how easy it is to fool #ORGcon
Apparently there's a drive to grant legal personhood to autonomous robots, which would remove any real accountability #ORGcon
Anyone surprised to learn the UK uses sophistry to define autonomous weaponry in a way such that BAe can make all kinds of evils #ORGcon
Audience question reminds us that all of these technologies are dangerously biased with regard to race—due to poor software training #ORGcon
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Nov 4, 2017
Next at #ORGcon17: @mikebutcher and @PaulbernalUK: What does #Brexit mean for digital rights?
Paul: most important thing to understand is that we don't understand what will happen with Brexit—pticly with tech matters. Most of our >
< UK digital rights law originates from Europe. And the great timing of GDPR, which we will be required to do … for a few months > #ORGcon17
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Next at #ORGcon17: @JamieJBartlett taking about online extremism. Far more difficult to censor and control, so govt increasing penalties
This is bad, because we're entering a time of increased radicalism—and we need radicals who bring new ideas to democrats. #ORGcon17
Bartlett recently wrote book "Radicals", for which he went to "Liberland", a libertarian anarchocapitalist state in territory disrupted >
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Next at #ORGcon: @mariafarrell with @nighatdad and Azmina Dhrodia talking about abuse online and what we can do about it
With @amnesty, Azmina released a qualitative and quantitative report using machine learning to look at the abuse sent to MPs.
In the 6 weeks up to the 2017 election, @HackneyAbbott received 45% of all abuse sent to MPs. Removing her data, female MPs of colour >
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Nov 4, 2017
Next at #ORGcon: @tkingdot and @CCriadoPerez: can online campaigns effect real-world change?
While social media can be a cesspool, it's also a massive advantage to disadvantaged voices. @CCriadoPerez wants to point out that >
< while she is a Jane Austen fangirl, it was a campaign to get female representation on our banknotes, not specifically Austen 😉
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Nov 4, 2017
Next at #ORGcon: @NiNanjira: is the Internet helping disadvantaged groups or cementing the power of the powerful?
Half the world's population is still offline, disproportionately women. Women 50% less likely to be online and 35–50% less likely > #ORGcon
< to be politically active online even if they are. Partly because of the cost of access & devices. For the Web to be for everyone > #ORGcon
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Nov 4, 2017
Moving from dystopian questions, #ORGcon now hears from @audreyt, civic hacker and Digital Minister of Digital Enterprise for Taiwan.
Short video presentation followed by live Skype Q&A session #ORGcon
(The video's coming from YouTube, but I can't find a link, sorry.)
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