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My intervention at the ‘multistakeholder’ information session on the Global Digital Compact at the UN

Below is the speech I delivered on behalf of Manushya Foundation during the United Nations’ so-called multistakeholder information session on the GDC: We appreciate the opportunity to speak as we critically evaluate the third and latest revision of the Global Digital Compact. This document, released under the silence procedure,

On why the UN Global Digital Compact is a Trojan horse in Internet governance

The United Nations has finally made public the third and latest revision of the Global Digital Compact, which it originally published under silence procedure. This procedure gives member states 72 hours to raise concerns to break their silence. Should they fail to, the text will be adopted as is. As

The UN Cybercrime treaty is a cesspit of overreach and authoritarianism

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is still two months away, but given the importance and urgency of this topic, I thought I’d write about the UN Cybercrime Treaty. And as the negotiations for the treaty draw to a close on August 9th, the stakes couldn’t be higher. This treaty was

Our addiction to end-of-world stories

I spent the last two years of my life becoming increasingly vocal about my conviction that our current understanding of “AI” is a construct of PR and marketing strategies employed by major tech companies to promote that the technology we have now is both ‘artificial’ and ‘intelligent’. If you pay

State power & the capital - A marriage sweeter than honey and the hive

Shove off, Romeo and Juliet. We've just uncovered a love story far more intricate and enthralling than yours. In the grand theatre of late stage capitalism, Big tech and state are in bed. This relationship, steeped in data and driven by profit and surveillance, is rewriting the narrative

We, the digital proletariat

Data is the lifeblood that allows any machine learning model to perform its task. It’s not magic. It’s not the so-called “AI” being intelligent or sentient. It’s statistics. And, as the tech sector delves into rapid developments of specialised LLMs that they can further commoditise, they

Diversity and inclusion is the new opium of the masses

In another attempt to whitewash capitalism, the current world order has advanced the idea of diversifying capitalism to divert our attention from the real issue: corporations are earning record profits while workers are putting in longer hours than pre-Industrial Revolution. All this happens as workers' wages continue to

The collective struggle for privacy

In an era where conversations about online privacy seem deceptively simple, achieving it is anything but. We are constantly being bombarded with PR campaigns that tout the robustness of corporate data protection measures, which often serve more as a smokescreen than anything relatively practical. Trying to reform a system that