27 Sep WITNESS Announces 2019-20 Mozilla Fellow
News and Events | WITNESSWITNESS is excited to welcome Leil Zahra as our 2019-20 Mozilla Fellow! Leil will be working with WITNESS’ Tech+Advocacy team.
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19 Sep Governing Deepfakes Detection to Ensure Supports Global Needs
News and Events | WITNESSWITNESS is joining the new ‘Steering Committee on AI and Media Integrity’ of the Partnership on AI that will provide governance to the recently announced Deepfakes Detection Challenge launched by Facebook, Microsoft, Partnership on AI and leading academic as well as future similar initiatives.
22 Aug Meet the New Faces of the WITNESS Board of Directors and Advisory Board
News and Events | WITNESSAs WITNESS continues to innovate and evolve in increasingly complex human rights landscapes, we are excited to welcome two new women onto our board who bring expertise in misinformation, technology, and philanthropy.
12 Aug WITNESS Mourns the Loss of Jeffrey Glynn Tarrant
News and Events, Press | WITNESSWITNESS mourns the loss of its Board member and colleague Jeffrey G. Tarrant (April 4, 1956 – August 5, 2019). Jeff was a fierce and instrumental friend, advocate, and WITNESS Board member (2011 – 2019), and a tremendous ally to the larger human rights field.
20 Jun WITNESS Co-Hosts Convening With Partnership on AI and BBC on Protecting Public Discourse From AI-Generated Mis/Disinformation
News and Events | WITNESSThe convening addressed the question: “As AI becomes more sophisticated and its techniques more accessible, how can organizations across technology, media, civil society, and the academic research community work together to coordinate strategies around the emergent threat of AI-generated mis/disinformation?”
05 Jun WITNESS at RightsCon 2019: Full List of Panels
News and Events | WITNESSWe are headed to RightsCon in Tunis next week, and would love to see you! RightsCon focuses on the intersection of tech and human rights—where WITNESS lives.
06 May WITNESS’ “Profiling the Police” Project Wins Shorty Award
News and Events | WITNESSWITNESS’ “Profiling the Police” project won a 2019 Shorty Awards Audience Honor and was a Finalist in the Social activism category.
15 Mar Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament Ready To Vote
News and Events | WITNESSNext week, the Civil Liberties [LIBE] Committee of the European Parliament is set to vote on the proposed “Regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online” that WITNESS and other civil society organizations have been strongly opposing for months.
12 Mar Help Us Secure Justice for Indigenous Land Rights Activist Samir Flores Soberanes
News and Events | WITNESSOn February 20th, Samir Flores Soberanes, popular communicator and activist, was murdered outside his house in Mexico. It is urgent that the Mexican government thoroughly investigate the case. It is impunity that enables killings of leaders from indigenous communities to continue. Read more.
02 Jul WITNESS LEADS CONVENING ON PROACTIVE SOLUTIONS TO MAL-USES OF DEEPFAKES AND OTHER AI-GENERATED SYNTHETIC MEDIA
News and Events | WITNESSWITNESS along with 30 leading technologists, machine learning specialists, academic researchers, human rights researchers, and journalists came together to discuss ways to mitigate threats involving deepfakes and AI.