| This month at Mozilla, we put pressure on Slack to implement basic user protections, introduce you to some of our newly funded projects making the digital world a better place, and explore the future of artificial intelligence.
 | | | Mozilla joined a coalition of over 90 organizations protesting outside of Slack’s San Francisco headquarters, driving mobile billboards around Slack’s offices in protest, and calling on the company to enable end-to-end encryption and introduce blocking and reporting features. Read more in Gizmodo |
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Take Action  | | | Millions of people use Slack to communicate at work and with their communities online. But Slack is not taking the safety of its users seriously — refusing to offer end-to-end encrypted messaging and refusing to offer a “Block” button to protect users from harassment. Take Action → |
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What we're Funding  | | | Data Futures Lab awardee Open Observatory of Network Interference is crowdsourcing data as a tool to fight internet censorship. Get Involved → |
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 | | | These projects work to advance digital rights on the African continent, both on and offline. Meet the Cohort → |
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 | | | An incubatee of Mozilla’s Data Futures Lab, Posmo is rethinking ways in which public mobility data can be leveraged to support active mobility planning, such as walking or biking. Read More → |
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Donate to Mozilla Right now, we need your donation to help inform consumers about the privacy risks of using mental health apps. Support our research and advocacy, including our *Privacy Not Included buyer’s guide, with a gift today. |
Discover  | | | Research The data behind Mozilla’s award-winning research — which catalyzed two of the largest-ever crowdsourced studies scrutinizing YouTube’s recommender algorithm — is now publicly available. See the Datasets → |
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 | | | Policy As the Digital Services Act takes shape, Mozilla’s EU Advocacy Lead Claire Pershan discusses how it could unfold. Read More → |
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 | | | Blog How is AI music created? What are musicians doing in response? And what comes next? Watch the Interview → |
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 | | | Policy According to intellectual property laws, does anyone own the literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images created by AI? Learn More → |
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 | | | Press Our president and executive director Mark Surman discusses the focus of the Foundation, Mozilla’s new investment fund Mozilla Ventures, US-EU regulation and the future of AI with Politico. Have a Listen → |
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 | | | Press Mozilla Fellow Abeba Birhane discusses her research in Wired, and finds that artificial intelligence continues to be fed racist and sexist training materials and then distributed around the world. Read More → |
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 | | | Events MozFest House is a local extension of MozFest happening 19-21 June. Take a peek at a few of the sessions occurring online and in person. Find out more → |
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Fifteen seconds with a Fellow Tarcízio Silva is a Senior Mozilla Fellow in Tech Policy, and a Brazilian researcher and technologist based in São Paulo. Tarcízio focuses on platform accountability, AI and racial justice in Brazil. Q: Brazil is introducing legislation to regulate AI. Does it go far enough to combat algorithmic racism? A: The recently submitted bill 2338/2023 has made progress in including transparency and accountability mechanisms but still does not explicitly recognize algorithmic racism or the influence of structural oppression. During the legislative debate, I hope that we will be able to discuss topics such as the definition of unacceptable high-risk uses, such as the use of facial recognition in the public space, and how to establish enforcement of the participation of vulnerable communities in algorithmic impact assessments. AI Antics AI is a serious topic. Sometimes it's necessary to bring some levity to the conversation.  We want to hear from you! This newsletter is a space for you, our community and supporters. If you have ideas or suggestions about what you want to see in this space. Let us know through this simple (anonymous) feedback form. |
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