At RightsCon in Taipei, activists reckon with a US retreat from promoting digital rights

At RightsCon in Taipei, activists reckon with a US retreat from promoting digital rights

Last week, I joined over 3,200 digital rights activists, tech policymakers, and researchers and a smattering of tech company representatives in Taipei at RightsCon, the world’s largest digital rights conference.  Human rights conferences can be sobering, to say the least. They highlight the David vs. Goliath situation of small civil society organizations fighting to center…

From Funding Crisis to AI Misuse: Critical Digital Rights Challenges from RightsCon 2025 | Montreal AI Ethics Institute

✍️ Op-Ed by Seher Shafiq.  Seher is the Global Engagement Manager at Mozilla Foundation, based in Toronto, Canada. After a break of almost two years, last week, the digital rights community gathered in Taipei for RightsCon 2025 – a global convening of human rights in the digital age. Amidst several ongoing conflicts, democratic backsliding, economic […] Source