by Saskia Rowley | Jan 13, 2025 | Communication Rights
We expected 2025 to be a challenging year for human rights defenders, if only from the global political turmoil U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump is promising. For many, though, Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement on 7 January that Meta would replace fact checkers on...
by Saskia Rowley | Feb 6, 2023 | Communication Rights
The message to end misogyny, sexual harassment and gender-based violence in the digital realm has been iterated and reiterated countless times in as many spaces and languages the world over. Yet, there still lacks global consensus on what constitutes such behaviour....
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 | May 13, 2019 | Communication Rights
Readers of Comment may have seen Clifford G. Christians’ article in the 1/2019 issue of WACC’s journal Media Development on “New digital technology and global communication ethics”. He calls for a commitment to the three ethical principles that underlie human...
