Facial Recognition Software Struggles To Detect Dark Skin — Here’s Why & How

Facial recognition tech routinely performs worse when attempting to detect Black and brown faces. Why do face detection tools struggle with dark skin?

Funding Building Blocks for a Better Data Ecosystem

The Data Futures Lab’s new Infrastructure Fund will provide awards of up to $50,000 for tools that fuel a more fair data economy.

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DFL Infrastructure Fund

MozFest House Amsterdam 2023: Dialogues & Debates Series

Watch in person or online June 19-June 21. Here's what you can expect at MozFest House Amsterdam as our speakers discuss collective power of people through the experience of whistleblowing, culture, deceptive design & regulation, and consequences of life online.

Technology of the Living: Intelligence of Voice & Volition

During MozFest House Amsterdam, Toshi Reagon will join us with a provocation: to explore the humanness of technology through the intelligence of voice and volition.

A Community-Based Approach To Data And Tech Governance In Namibia

Kristophina Shilongo is a Senior Mozilla Fellow in Tech Policy, focused on national data policies and regulation on the African continent.

Using Data to Confront ‘Digital Deserts’ and Connect More Black Americans

This is a profile of DataKind, a Mozilla Data Futures Lab awardee

Coming Soon: DFL Infrastructure Fund

The DSA must ensure public data for public interest research

Mozilla Foundation and a group of civil society experts gathered to discuss the implementation of the Digital Services Act’s public data sharing scheme in practice. Together we put forward the following recommendations to the European Commission and to the designated platforms directly as they move to implement Article 40, paragraph 12, of the Digital Services Act.