Technology Pill

In this podcast Sara Nelson of PI’s Reproductive Rights and Privacy Project talks about the US based international anti-abortion organisation Heartbeat International and the technologies they are developing for their international network of affiliate organisations. We also discuss what reproductive rights are and why PI is working on the topic. Enjoy!

Music by Glass Boy, find more of their work here: https://glassboy.bandcamp.com/album/enjoy

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Millie and Gus chat about the top things they listened to and watched in 2019.

**Top reads**

Strangers in Their Own Land: Arlie Russell Hochschild

Bad Blood: John Carreyrou

Automating Inequality: Virgina Eubanks

Network Propaganda: Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts

Making Evil: Dr Julia Shaw

Perfidious Albion: Sam Byers

Lathe of Heaven: Ursula LeGuin

Autonomous: Analee Newitz

Cryptonomicon: Neal Stephenson

The Nickel Boys: Colson Whitehead

My Name is Why: Lemn Sissay

Beloved: Toni Morrison

Girl: Edna O'Brien

**Top podcasts**

Jon Ronson: The Butterfly Effect

Fortunately

The Missing Cryptoqueen

What happens when the policies that are supposed to preserve your security actually undermine it? Find out more from Miguel from Hiperderecho.

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3278/privacy-security-op-ed-peru

Matthew Schaaf is Freedom House's Ukraine Project Director.

On 21 April 2019, Ukraine

Oleksiy Matsuka is a journalist and editor of the Donetsk Institute of Information.

On 21 April 2019, Ukraine

In September 2018, a month after Argentina lawmakers voted against the

legalisation of abortion, we spoke to Eduardo Ferreyra from the

Buenos Aires-based Asociacion por los Derechos Civiles about the role of privacy in the abortion debate. Also joining us on this podcast was Ambika Tandon from the Centre for Internet and Society in India to discuss the intersection between privacy and bodily autonomy.

In this podcast, we travel to Manila, the capital of the Philippines, to meet with two activists for transgender rights - Naomi Fontanos and

AR Arcon. We discuss what the right to privacy means to them and their

fight against the government's plan to deploy a national ID card.

In this podcast, we talk about sex and privacy with two female activists: Sarah Jamie Lewis, an expert on the security of internet-connected sex toys, and

Joana Varon, founder of the female-led Brazilian NGO Coding Rights.

Both “cyber security” and “cyber crime” are terms widely used but often poorly understood. This podcast provides a brief overview of terminology, concepts and trends in addressing cyber security and cyber crime.

As more governments embrace hacking to facilitate their surveillance activities, there are significant implications for security and the rule of law. PI's Lucy Purdon and Scarlet Kim answer some frequently asked questions about hacking, highlight examples of government hacking in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and discuss the associated human rights concerns of this practice.

Read the accompanying briefing here: https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy-briefing/2064/pay-no-attention-man-behind-curtain-exposing-and-challenging-government