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#digitaljustice — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. 📍Day 1 at #WSIS2026

    Today, APC staff, members and partners are contributing to discussions on the future of internet governance, the #WSISPlus20 review, gender equality in AI governance, and digital inclusion.

    Browse today's sessions and join us if you're at the forum.

    🔗 apc.org/en/news/apc-world-summ

    #WSIS #InternetGovernance #DigitalJustice #AIGovernance

  2. 🌍 APC is heading to #WSIS2026.

    Next week, our staff, members and partners will contribute to discussions on meaningful connectivity, digital justice, AI governance, gender equality and sustainable digital development.

    🔗See our sessions and priorities: apc.org/en/news/apc-world-summ

    Follow us throughout the week for daily updates, key takeaways and highlights from Geneva. #DigitalJustice #InternetGovernance

  3. RE: fediscience.org/@oatp/11643887

    "Maximal transparency is almost certainly not ethically desirable."

    Desirable 'for whom'?

    For platforms facing regulatory scrutiny, opacity is a feature. For users discriminated against by biased recommendation engines, transparency is survival. For communities targeted by algorithmic manipulation, openness is a civil liberty.

    This paper usefully breaks transparency into dimensions and degrees—providing the "choice points" for an ethics of algorithmic openness. But let us be clear: the stakeholders who need transparency most are rarely the ones invited to design these systems.

    Our job as advocates for privacy, free software, and civil liberties is not to settle for the "ethically optimal" comfort zone of the powerful. It is to push the needle toward the maximum and let the burden of justification fall on those who demand secrecy.

    Let us use it to demand more.

    #DigitalJustice #AlgorithmicBias #PrivacyRights #OpenScience #AlgorithmicGovernance #DigitalDemocracy #InfoSec #TechPolicy

  4. The "privacy" you think you have in Malaysia is an illusion.

    Authorities have a legal backdoor into your entire digital existence. Under Section 249 of the Communications & Multimedia Act (CMA), police can demand your passwords, PINs, or biometrics during an investigation.

    Here is the creepy part: Refusing to unlock your phone IS the crime itself.

    They don't need to crack sophisticated encryption; they just crack you with the threat of immediate arrest for "obstruction." You become a criminal just for trying to protect your data dignity.

    And it's getting worse. The incoming #Pindaan2025 amendments propose escalating penalties for non-compliance up to a staggering RM1 MILLION fine or 5 YEARS in prison.

    This isn't about fighting crime; it's an infrastructure designed to force compliance through state-sanctioned fear. Your digital mind is yours only until they ask for it. Wake up.

    #DigitalRightsMY #AKM1998 #Privacy #Censorship #MalaysiaBoleh #DigitalRightsMY #CMA2025 #Section249 #PrivacyInMalaysia #EndSurveillance #FightCensorship #DigitalFreedom #Malaysia #OnlinePrivacy #DataProtection #EncryptionRights #SurveillanceState #CyberSecurityMY #RightToSilence #TechPolicy #HumanRights #DigitalJustice #StopPindaan2025 #PrivacyNow #FreedomOfExpression #MalaysianPolitics #DigitalActivism #RightToPrivacy #SurveillanceLaws #InformationRights #AKM1998 #OrangKenaCekup #DigitalOppression #SecureTheWeb #ResistSurveillance #TechForGood #DigitalSovereignty #OnlineFreedom #DataOwnership #DigitalRights