SMEX • 15 Oct 2021

To our Bread&Net community, we will finally meet again from 23-26 November!

We invite you to register for Bread&Net 2021, our yearly unconference on digital rights in its fourth edition, taking place…

SMEX • 05 Oct 2021

#FreeAlaa: Freedom for our courageous friend and human rights defender, Alaa Abdel Fattah

Our courageous friend and colleague, Egyptian activist and technologist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, must be released from his arbitrary detention immediately….

SMEX • 24 Sep 2021

The Oversight Board’s decision on Palestine is a step in the right direction, now Facebook needs to step up

We, the undersigned organizations, welcome the recent decision by Facebook’s Oversight Board on Facebook’s unjustified removal of news content related…

SMEX • 13 Sep 2021

Privacy and Data Protection Law: Lessons from Covid-19 Patient-Tracing Apps [Bread&Net 2020 Session]

In this #BreadandNet 2020 session moderated by Accessnow’s Marwa Fatafta, Senior Legal Consultant Mohammad Moghabat, Joey Shia, and Etienne Manyier…

SMEX • 10 Sep 2021

Humanitarian chatbots: how can we “meet people where they are” while supporting digital rights?

A chatbot is an artificial intelligence feature that can be used in websites and different platforms like Facebook or Twitter…

SMEX • 09 Sep 2021

Is Lebanese citizens’ data safe on IMPACT’s platforms?

Update: IMPACT responded to the concerns raised in this article with some clarifications about some of the mentioned points. In…

SMEX • 08 Sep 2021

How to rebuild a digital society festival like re:publica resilient? [Bread&Net 2020 Session]

In this #BreadandNet 2020 session Andreas Gebhard,co-founder and CEO of re:public, a festival for the digital society that was forced…