Civil Liberties
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AI at the Border: Racialized Impacts and Implications
The use of AI in immigration enforcement poses a growing risk to marginalized communities.

Children’s Personal Photos Are Powering AI Exploitation
Children deserve privacy. They deserve to safely learn, grow, and play online, without fear that their identities might be stolen and weaponized against them.

Government Use of AI is Expanding: We Should Hope for the Best but Safeguard Against the Worst
Robust governance over the use of AI in the public sector requires centralized, specialized oversight of decision-making.

UN Human Rights Expert Extends Chinese Government’s Impunity
A special rapporteur's unusual visit and her finding that sanctions have harmed the country ignores legions of evidence and analysis.

Introducing the Symposium on AI and Human Rights
Explore the intersection of AI and human rights in this new collaboration between Just Security and UCLA's Promise Institute for Human Rights.

The Oversight Board Needs Access to Facebook’s Algorithms to do its Job
Meta should cooperate with Board efforts to delve further into algorithms and provide it with access its needs for effective oversight.

Is Secret Law the Solution to an Overbroad Surveillance Authority?
Congress can legislate both responsibly and openly, as long as the administration declassifies certain information that is already in the public domain.

Next UN Afghanistan Talks in Doha Must Hold Taliban to Account on Human Rights
The international community needs unity to press the group on its draconian repression of women and on rising terrorism risks such as ISIS-K.

Clowns, Reverse Boycotts, and Involuntary Walkathons: How Communities are Making Political Violence Backfire
Across the US, community action is raising the costs of political violence while strengthening pro-democracy norms and behaviors.

Deaths, Torture, and Arbitrary Detention in the Wake of the Islamic State in Syria: The US Responsibility to Act
More than 56,000 people, including 30,000 children, are being held with US support and many face systematic torture and grossly inhumane conditions.

More States Open to Considering Gender Apartheid for Draft Crimes Against Humanity Treaty
Learn what UN members said about denoting violations such as the Afghan Taliban's dystopian repression as a crime in a possible treaty.

Assessing the Intelligence Community’s Policy Framework for Commercially Available Information
The ODNI's framework on CAI still gives the intelligence community too much discretion in determining how certain principles are applied.