We speak to Jason Pielemeier, Policy Director at the Global Network Initiative (GNI), for a big picture discussion on the rapidly involving debate around online content regulation.

Find out more about GNI's upcoming policy brief on online content regulation here: globalnetworkinitiative.org/dsa-roundtable-june4/

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In this episode, we speak to Sharon Bradford Franklin, Policy Director at New America's Open Technology Institute, about a new report contact tracing apps: 'Digital Tools for COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Identifying and Mitigating the Equity, Privacy, and Civil Liberties Concerns.'

Read the report here: https://www.newamerica.org/oti/policy-papers/digital-tools-covid-19-contact-tracing-identifying-and-mitigating-equity-privacy-and-civil-liberties-concerns/

We discuss the recently launched www.disinformationtracker.org with the team at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria (CHR)—Hlengiwe Dube, Marystella Simiyu, and Tomiwa Ilori Ilori.

Find out more about CHR here: https://www.chr.up.ac.za/

In this episode, we speak to Ivana Bartoletti, author of the recent book, An Artificial Revolution: Power, Politics and AI.

Buy the book here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Artificial-Revolution-Power-Politics-Indigo-ebook/dp/B0874WLS4L/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Take a look at our new tool to track disinformation responses in Sub Saharan Africa here: https://www.disinformationtracker.org/

We speak to Barrie Sander, Fellow at Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) Direito Rio in Brazil, about current trends in content moderation by online platforms.

Read his recent article, "Freedom of Expression in the Age of Online Platforms" here: https://www.fordhamilj.org/new-blog/2020/5/19/freedom-of-expression-in-the-age-of-online-platforms-the-promise-and-pitfalls-of-a-human-rights-based-approach-to-content-moderation

Find out more about the recent advocacy efforts of the The Africa Internet Rights Alliance (AIRA):

https://cipesa.org/2020/06/african-internet-rights-alliance-aira-denounces-restrictions-on-freedoms-in-kenya-and-nigeria/

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We speak to Evelyn Douek, a leading commentator on online content moderation by platforms, about Facebook's Oversight Board—which recently unveiled its first slate of members.

Recent work by Evelyn:

https://lawreviewblog.uchicago.edu/2020/05/11/fb-oversight-board-edouek/

https://www.lawfareblog.com/covid-19-and-social-media-content-moderation

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/20/1001927/podcast-who-watches-the-pandemic-watchers-we-do/?

https://hrdn.eu/covid-19/

We speak to GPD Senior Programme Lead Sheetal Kumar about how COVID-19 is affecting discussions on cyber norms at the international level.

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

https://www.globalencryption.org/events/

We speak to Prasanth Sugathan of the Software Freedom Law Center in India (SFLC.IN) about how the COVID-19 pandemic is playing out in India, and its impacts on human rights in the digital environment.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/07/1000961/launching-mittr-covid-tracing-tracker/

https://www.accessnow.org/privacy-and-public-health-the-dos-and-donts-for-covid-19-contact-tracing-apps/

We speak to CIPESA's Ashnah Kalemera about responses to COVID-19 on the African continent.

Explore CIPESA's work here: https://cipesa.org/

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Other resources mentioned in this episode:

https://freedex.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/2015/files/2020/04/A_HRC_44_49_AdvanceEditedVersion.pdf

https://ict4peace.org/activities/a-human-centric-framework-to-evaluate-the-risks-raised-by-contact-tracing-applications-2/

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/digitaliberties/we-cant-let-tech-companies-use-algorithms-to-police-us-after-covid-19/

We speak to Stefaan Verhulst about GovLab's new repository of COVID-related data initiatives.

Explore the repository here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JWeD1AaIGKMPry_EN8GjIqwX4J4KLQIAqP09exZ-ENI/edit

And find out more about The GovLab's Global AI Ethics Consortium (GAIEC) here: https://medium.com/data-stewards-network/the-global-ai-ethics-consortium-gaiec-on-ethics-and-the-use-of-data-and-artificial-intelligence-f3dfcdee3771

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

https://cdt.org/insights/covid-19-content-moderation-research-letter/

http://www.freespeechhistory.com/2020/04/17/special-edition-monika-bickert/

https://botpopuli.net/covid19-coronavirus-technology-rights

https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/our-work/covid-19/covid-19-exit-through-the-app-store/