Biometrics in the proposed EU AI Act have been primarily considered from the perspective of face recognition technologies. The proposal thus does not consider the specific contexts and associated risks of voice-based systems differently to those of facial recognition systems.
As a Mozilla Fellow, Odanga Madung has exposed a flourishing disinformation industry in Kenya, and pushed social media platforms to confront it. But Madung’s fellowship almost didn’t happen.
The open-access Mapeo app, by Digital Democracy, is a monitoring and mapping tool designed with and for marginalized communities. The app collects territorial data and evidence of human rights or environmental violations, supporting the defense of their land rights. This is a profile of Digital Democracy, a member of Mozilla’s Data Futures Lab 2022.
In response to an investigation conducted by Mozilla Fellows Odanga Madung and Brian Obilo, Twitter has removed 100 accounts responsible for a coordinated disinformation and harassment campaign against Kenyan journalists, judges, and other members of civil society.
