by Saskia Rowley | Jul 29, 2019 | Communication Rights
Walk around any city and your face will be caught on camera and might even be added to a facial-recognition database. That data can now be processed in real-time. Regulations about how it can be used are minimal and generally weak. The military, law-enforcement...
by Saskia Rowley | Jul 22, 2019 | Communication Rights
There was a mantra among communities and businesses when foreign goods and huge chain stores started crowding out small, local operations. “Buy local” was the cry. With climate change sensitising people to the carbon footprint of food and flowers flown in from around...
by Saskia Rowley | Jul 15, 2019 | Communication Rights
Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, writes that the impacts of global heating are likely to undermine not only basic rights to life, water, food, and housing for hundreds of millions of people, but also democracy and the rule of...
by Saskia Rowley | Jul 8, 2019 | Communication Rights
Accessibility and affordability are watchwords of the communication rights movement. Yet when it comes to digital access, governments have still not got their act together. The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) says that Africans face the highest cost to connect...
by Saskia Rowley | Jul 1, 2019 | Communication Rights
Article 19 – the international freedom of expression organization – has proposed creating Social Media Councils (SMCs) as a way of moderating content on social media based on a “multi-stakeholder accountability mechanism”. Article 19 argues: “In today’s world,...
