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Mozilla Community Places Full-Page Washington Post Ad Supporting AICOA
Today, Mozilla and its supporters placed a full-page ad in the Washington Post supporting the American Innovation and Choice Online Act. AICOA is a bill that levels the playing field and puts control back in consumers’ hands by stopping tech platforms from giving preferential treatment to their own products.
Fellowship Learnings: The Importance of Sustainability
This is our third installment in a series reflecting on Mozilla’s Tech + Society Fellowship, a program which launched in October 2020. The program embeds technologists from the global majority within local civil society organizations, in order to bridge two worlds that have traditionally been siloed.
Listen to the first episode of Mozilla’s podcast IRL
Where should tech builders draw the line on AI for military or surveillance? Join our wonderful new host, Bridget Todd, for a look at AI in real life and find out what it’s like to sound the alarm from inside a big tech company.
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Advocacy Aug. 4, 2022The RegretsReporter User Controls Study: Machine learning to measure semantic similarity of YouTube videos
In part two of this blog series, we dive into the architecture of the machine learning methods we apply in the RegretsReporter analysis.To measure the degree to which YouTube is respecting your feedback depends on our ability to determine how similar any two YouTube videos are to each other.
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Fellowships & Awards Aug. 2, 2022Mozilla Fellowship & Awards News: July 2022
Looking to learn more about or engage with Mozilla Fellows and Awardees around the world? Stay up-to-date with regular updates about these leaders and their work by reviewing the current and upcoming news and announcements below.
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Fellowships & Awards July 27, 2022The Proposed EU AI Act and The Case of Biometrics
Biometrics in the proposed EU AI Act have been primarily considered from the perspective of face recognition technologies. The proposal thus does not consider the specific contexts and associated risks of voice-based systems differently to those of facial recognition systems.
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Internet Health Report July 18, 20222022 Internet Health Report podcast spotlights people reclaiming power over AI
Mozilla’s annual Internet Health Report (IHR) has always been a critical temperature check on the state of the internet. It seeks to look beyond the machines, code, apps, and platforms to highlight the people challenging tech’s status quo.
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Internet Health Report July 18, 2022Mozilla’s 2022 Internet Health Report names power disparity between who benefits from AI and who is harmed by AI as top challenge to health of internet
For first time, the annual report is presented as a special five-episode season of Mozilla’s Webby Award-winning podcast ‘IRL’
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Common Voice July 14, 2022The Politics of Language: The Controversial Origin Story of Kiswahili Sanifu, and Considerations for Building Language Technology
Kiswahili is Africa’s most spoken language and in the top 10 most widely spoken languages in the world. With more than 200 million speakers already, int…
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Mozilla Festival July 13, 2022Peer-to-Peer Learning & Web-native Storytelling | Incredible Connections at MozFest
From Peer-to-peer learning, to web-native storytelling, to art curation, and community collaboration, Philo van Kemenade has found incredible success in bringing his work to the Mozilla Festival Community .
