@rightscon 2025 is about to begin! 🚀
The leading summit on human rights in the digital age, hosted by EDRi member @accessnow, will take place in-person in Taipei 🇹🇼 and online from February 24-27.
🔍 Find out more about #RightsCon and register here: rightscon.org/
📝 Grab your pen and paper—here’s where and when you can find EDRi during the event! 👇🏿
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The 13th edition of the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age will take place in February 2025RightsCon Summit Series
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EDRi
in reply to EDRi • • •📅 February 24, 2025 | 3:15 - 4:15pm CST
🤝 Regional Meetups at #RightsCon!
A unique space to connect, network, and build trusted relationships with regional partners before the summit kicks off.
📍 Find EDRi’s @itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal, Janine Patricia Santos, Aljosa Ajanovic Andelic, Blue Duangdjai Tiyavorabun & @Andreea Belu in the Joy Lounge room.
Come say hello! ➡️ rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightsco…
EDRi
in reply to EDRi • • •📅 February 26, 2025 | 9 am CST
How can we challenge technosolutionism and center people & the environment in tech? Join this meetup to discuss the socio-environmental impacts of technology, from data center emissions to e-waste & extractivism.
📣 The meetup will be facilitated by EDRi’s Blue Duangdjai Tiyavorabun (They/Them).
EDRi
in reply to EDRi • • •📅 February 26, 2025 | 12:45 - 1:45pm CST
Join EDRi’s @itxaso alongside Thobekile Matimbe, Dionysia Peppa & Franco Giandana Gigena, as they explore how to reimagine privacy and data protection beyond individual rights. This discussion will examine how existing frameworks fail to address collective harms, the structural inequalities reinforced by data-driven systems, & strategies to empower vulnerable communities against commercial & state surveillance.
Register here ➡️ rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightsco…
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EDRi
in reply to EDRi • • •📅 February 26, 2025 | 12:45 - 1:45pm CST
What does “child safety” really mean in the digital age? Which children are considered? And what potential harms does tech bring in trying to provide ‘safe’ solutions?
Join EDRi’s Janine Patricia Santos, alongside Maggie Macdonald & Kate Sim, for a critical discussion on the complexities of child online safety, youth agency, and resilience.
Register here ➡️ rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightsco…
EDRi
in reply to EDRi • • •📅 February 26, 2025 | 2 - 3pm CST
How do VPNs help uphold democracy in the face of internet censorship? What are the biggest threats to electoral integrity in the digital age?
Join EDRi’s Aljosa Ajanovic Andelic, alongside Zach Rosson, Asad Baig, Patricija Černiauskaitė & Felicia Anthonio, for a critical discussion on how technology can safeguard democratic processes.
Register here ➡️ rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightsco…
EDRi
in reply to EDRi • • •📅 February 26, 2025 | 4:30 - 5:30pm CST
How do age verification mandates impact privacy, anonymity, and freedom of expression? What legal models can challenge these requirements on a global scale?
Join EDRi’s Janine Patricia Santos, alongside David Greene, KS Park, Prasanth Sugathan & Olumide Babalola, in this roundtable discussion to draft a global human rights statement on age verification policies.
Register here ➡️ rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightsco…
EDRi
in reply to EDRi • • •📅 February 27, 2025 | 11:30am - 12:30pm CST
EDRi’s @Andreea Belu, together with Angela Chan, Camila Nobrega, and Becky Kazansky, will explore how digital infrastructures are tied to extractivism.
Through concrete cases they will examine how digital infrastructures reinforce colonialist, capitalist, and military interests, and discuss how they can be built with more just models of governance.
Register here ➡️ rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightsco…
EDRi
in reply to EDRi • • •📅 February 27, 2025 | 12:45 - 1:45pm CST
Join EDRi’s @Andreea Belu, alongside Maya Richman, Boxi Wu, Marie Therese Png, & Yung Au for a crucial workshop on the links between technology, militarism, and the environment.
Bringing together voices from Taiwan, Okinawa, Serbia, DRC, the US, and Latin America, the session will explore how false claims of “security” and “sustainability” in tech supply chains contribute to ecocide and military aggression.
Register here ➡️ rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightsco…