19: Mallory Knodel on bits and bytes and human rights
FOSS and Crafts
English - December 17, 2020 20:50 - 63.7 MBCrafts Leisure Technology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
With computing technology becoming integrated with every aspect of our
lives, many issues are simultaneously human rights issues and
technical issues.
Thus, how are organizations concerned with human rights and social
justice engaging with technological authorship and policy-making?
Mallory Knodel, presently
Chief Technology Officer
for the Center for Democracy and Technology,
explains her work as a Public Interest Technologist.
Mallory is also heavily engaged in a wide number of technical
standards-making organizations, and explains not only how technical
standards are of interest to human rights organizations, but how
the origin in work to define human rights overlaps with the emergence
of standards-making efforts.
Links:
Center for Democracy and Technology
The Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research Group (of which Mallory is co-chair)
A whole bunch of mentioned standards-making organizations:
W3C, IETF,
IRTF, IEEE,
ITU, ICANN,
ISO
Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880
[http://manu.sporny.org/2016/rebalancing/](Rebalancing How the Web is Built) by Manu Sporny
The slew of Google-related stuff, both good and bad:
Google's attempt to control which browsers are permitted to use their services
Controvercy around Google's AMP technology
Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages