Human Rights Watch is recruiting a full-time Azure Engineer, multiple locations possible and deadline to apply is January 18th
Azure Engineer, Infrastructure Operations
Multiple Locations Considered
Etienne / Tek
Etienne / Tek
tek@todon-eu.mostr.pub
npub1gdev...rt4x
Technologist @ Human Rights Watch (previously Amnesty, Citizen Lab)
Malware, Threat Intelligence, Disinformation, Human Rights and silly memes.
Based in Toronto, Canada but from France, may toot in French sometimes (but rarely).
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files) 🤯 
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archiveâ€...
Two more ICC judges sanctioned by the US, a direct attack against international law:
Sanctioning ICC Judges Directly Engaged in the Illegitimate Targeting of Israel
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/12/sanctioning-icc-judges-directly-engaged-in-the-illegitimate-targeting-of-israel/
TIL that Kenyan workers have been used so much to train AI systems, that standard writing by Kenyan people is often flagged as AI generated while it is not (which means that they can get discriminated for jobs / exams etc)
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
OK, what’s going on with LinkedIn’s algo? | TechCrunch 
TechCrunch
OK, what's going on with LinkedIn's algo? | TechCrunch
Women ran an experiment to see if LinkedIn's new algo was being sexist and thought they proved it. But there's more complexity involved, ...
Global: Amnesty International launches an Algorithmic Accountability toolkit to enable investigators, rights defenders’ and activists to hold powerful actors accountable for AI-facilitated harms 
Amnesty International
Global: Amnesty International launches an Algorithmic Accountability toolkit to enable investigators, rights defenders' and activists to hold powerful actors accountable for AI-facilitated harms
With the widespread use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making systems (ADMs) that impact our everyday lives, it i...
Age Verification Is Locking Trans People Out of the Internet 
Tech Policy Press
Age Verification Is Locking Trans People Out of the Internet | TechPolicy.Press
Experts tell Dia Kayyali and Jasmine Mithani that age verification, sold as a fix for kids’ online safety, expands surveillance and deepens discr...
The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back | WIRED 
WIRED
The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back
Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against ...
An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls 
MIT Technology Review
An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.”