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.

AI and internet health

News from fellows and awardees

• Is It Possible To Create A Benevolent Deepfake? featuring awardee Stephanie Lepp in Forbes
• Can’t buy me love featuring former fellow Hang Do Thi Duc in NPR
• Facebook boss 'apologises' for 'Russians fixing election' in chilling Deepfake video featuring awardee Stephanie Lepp in Daily Star
• Out of inspiration? This AI generates article ideas for your site featuring fellow Daniel Leufer in Presse Citron
• How the myth of love jihad is going viral featuring fellow Divij Joshi in Times of India
• How artificial intelligence is changing asylum seekers’ lives for the worse featuring fellow Petra Molnar in Toronto Star
• Rebuke for racist high-tech surveillance and Germany featuring fellow Petra Molnar in Heise
• The Hyderabad model of CCTV surveillance featuring fellow Divij Joshi in Livemint
• Border technologies largely fail to respect human rights featuring fellow Petra Molnar in Computer Weekly
• UN warns of impact of smart borders on refugees: ‘Data collection isn't apolitical’ featuring fellow Petra Molnar in The Guardian
• How private is my pay app? featuring former fellow Hang Do Thi Duc in CNN
• Humanitarian data collection practices put migrants at risk featuring fellow Petra Molnar in Computer Weekly
• Digital Brief, powered by Google featuring fellow Petra Molnar in Euractiv
• It’s naive to think we’re not being manipulated online, says Mozilla Fellow Harriet Kingaby Harriet Kingaby in the Privacy Collective
• I want my face back from a surveillance company Fieke Jansen and Daniel Leufer
• Big Tech is leading the new space race. Here's why that's a problem featuring fellow Steve Song in Salon
• How artists and activists are using deepfakes as a force for good featuring awardee Stephanie Lepp in Digital Trends
• Against gender bias in tech, activists 2.0 featuring former fellows Julia Kloiber and Caroline Sinders in Le Temps
• The ethical questions that haunt facial-recognition research featuring fellow Deborah Rajj in Nature
• TheirTube by Tomo Kihara featuring awardee Tomo Kihara in Design Indaba
• Technology is the new border enforcer, and it discriminates featuring fellow Petra Molnar in Al Jazeera
• Openness for Building Equity: Lessons from the growth of the Internet by fellow Sarah Kiden in OpenDOTT
• Automating Mental Health: The Global Promise and Peril by fellow Piers Gooding in Council on Foreign Relations
• Tamil Nadu Police nab criminal using face recognition app, questions of safeguards and accountability remain featuring fellow Divij Joshi in Medianama
• Critics: Drones, AI and face recognition at Europe's borders dehumanize refugees featuring fellow Petra Molnar in Information
• Choose your own fake news (and you will see its consequences) featuring fellow Neema Iyer in El Pais

News from fellowship partner organizations

• Dec 6 Anti-Defamation League “In Concert Against Hate” event
• Derechos Digitales is working to open the conversation about how to make Twitter a more secure and friendly space. Follow the #TwitterSaludable campaign.
• Dec 6 - call for panels deadline for EDRi’s #PrivacyCamp21 in January 2021
• Consumers International celebrates 60 years by laying out network leaders’ vision for the future
• Digital Freedom Fund is updating their grantmaking efforts, to launch in early 2021. Read more here.

Events and launches (recent+upcoming)

• Dec 10-12 My Data Online 2020 Conference featuring fellow Anouk Ruhaak
• New report: To track or not to track? Towards privacy-friendly and sustainable online advertising by fellow Karolina Iwańska in Panoptykon Foundation blog
• New report: Fellow Research: AI Systems at Borders Threaten Human Rights featuring fellow Petra Molnar
• Nov 24 - 26 3 day webinar on cyber security and and data protection in Kenya featuring fellow Brian Obilo
• Nov 10 Discrimination at the Border: Launch of new UN report and the Migration and Technology Monitor featuring fellow Petra Molnar

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