Today, Access Now announces its selection of Lizzie O’Shea, an Australian human rights lawyer, broadcaster, and writer, as a recipient of this year’s Human Rights Heroes Award. O’Shea is recognized for leading work to highlight, analyze, and protest expansive surveillance laws in Australia.
“It’s incredibly worrying to see AFP officers carry out a raid on the home of a political journalist working to reveal an important public interest issue – a potential massive expansion of domestic capacity in Australian spy agencies.
This election, you may have noticed that you’ve been inundated with targeted adverts from political parties, interest groups and individual candidates, who are all using Facebook microtargeting in their strategies to influence voters.
Corporate and government attacks on human rights to privacy, security, and liberty are increasing across the globe, and technology plays a central role in extending their reach. Technology can empower and grant freedoms to us all, but increasingly our online data is empowering data brokers, surveillance companies, and government agencies to discriminate against minorities, surveil populations , and exploit our human rights.
The Australian technology sector is generating new jobs and creating the industries that will house the jobs of the future.
The advertisement that you clicked on was bought and paid for by Digital Rights Watch. But political parties, interest groups and individual candidates are all using Facebook microtargeting in their strategies to influence voters