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Dublin, 4 September 2019

ICCL invited some of the world’s most exciting online activists to Ireland to talk to the bright sparks of Dublin’s tech industry about how to protect human rights during their work.

Here’s some behind-the-scenes footage from the event:

David Carroll sued Cambridge Analytica, helping to expose the murky world of data harvesting and voter targetting that threaten 21st century democracy. Laura Nolan took a principled stand against the development of killer robots and is now spearheading the movement to have them banned, for good. Ramy Raoof trains human rights activists to safeguard themselves online, using his techie skills to protect those who protect rights.

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Dublin, 24 June 2019

Protecting certain groups from harmful content should not translate into totalitarian state structures capable of indiscriminate surveillance and censorship of our private communications.

At ICCL we are deeply alarmed by BAI’s proposals for internet regulation, including their proposals to access, monitor and censor the private communications of people living in Ireland. Such proposals ignore a long established body of human rights doctrine protecting our important rights including privacy, association, and expression.

We have spoken out before against overly broad regulation which might lead to censorship of legitimate forms of speech: https://www.iccl.ie/…/iccl-submission-digital-safety-commi…/

Like the BAI, we also made submissions to Department of Communications regarding best practices for online content regulation. However, our submissions place human rights analysis at the centre: https://www.iccl.ie/…/iccl-submission-to-the-public-consul…/

Behind the scenes at #TechForGood

Statement on BAI’s proposals for internet regulation

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