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This Week In Cyberspace

Nell Schofield and Brett Solomon

Join Nell Schofield and Brett Solomon as they scan their retinas across the latest global cyber issues and compress them into byte-sized chunks of goodness for your ears. Brett has a unique insight into the role of human rights in the digital age as former Executive Director of Access Now. Nell is a climate activist who hosts Roadtrip on BayFM99.9 where TWICS is first broadcast live from Bundjalung Country on Australia"s easternmost point. Hard core data with a dash of downloadable humour.

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00:17:11

7.2 - Henri Verdier at RightsCon2025

This Week In Cyberspace ·

2025/02/25

We’re in Taipei speaking with some incredible people working to advance human rights in the digital age. One of those at the forefront of this is Henri Verdier the French Ambassador for Digital Affairs within the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. Since 2018, he has led and co-ordinated French digital diplomacy and he was instrumental in last week’s AI Action Summit in Paris hosted by President Macron.

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00:14:55

7.1 - Mohammed al-Maskati at RightsCon2025

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2025/02/25

Mohammed al-Maskati is one of the 3,200 people participating live at RightsCon 2025 in Taipei. He is a Bahraini human rights activist who worked as a digital security consultant for the Middle East and North Africa. He founded the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR), and currently works with AccessNow as the Digital Security Helpline Director.

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00:12:06

6.7.01 - On the Ground at RightsCon 2025 Taipei

This Week In Cyberspace ·

2025/02/23

We have set up in the Media Room at RightsCon 2025 Taipei and are getting ready for an amazing few days of interviews with some of the best brains in the biz. These are people working at the forefront of human rights in the digital age.Stay tuned to meet some amazing activists over the coming days.

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00:18:04

6.6 - Getting Pumped for RightsCon2025 in Taipei

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2025/02/20

We're in Taiwan where thousands of human rights activists are gathering for RightCon2025. This is a conference started by TWICS co-host Brett Solomon and this will be the first time that he's attending not as CEO of the organising body AccessNow but as a podcaster!He and Nell Schofield will be talking with around 25 global leaders who are defending and extending human rights in the digital age, and it seems like there’s never been a more important time to work on this issue.

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00:14:50

6.5 - Satellites Are Go!

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2025/02/13

Satellite internet technology is go! But does it, as promised, help to close the digital divide? At least 2.6 billion people worldwide are still unable to access high-quality, open, secure internet, despite all the satellites up there. SpaceX’s Starlink has nearly 7k satellites circling the Earth with plans for another 23,000!! And astronomers are concerned because the sunlight reflecting off them is interfering with sensitive telescopes investigating the origins of the universe.So what’s more

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00:07:34

6.4 On the Road to Taipei

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2025/02/09

10 days to go until lift off and land down in Taiwan for RightsCon Taipei 2025. We are trialling our tech and our FACES!Check the program list out and let us know who you want us to interview: https://www.rightscon.org/program/#list

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00:15:43

6.3 - Seeking Deep Answers

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2025/02/07

This Week In Cyberspace we take a look at how the release of China’s new Artificial Intelligence model DeepSeek has knocked the socks off Silicon Valley’s techbros. It’s just as powerful as ChatGPT, made for a tenth of the cost and its release knocked a cool trillion off US tech stocks. How will this new battle for supremacy in the AI space play out?

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00:15:26

6.2 - Migration Tech Tools

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2025/01/28

As Trump cracks down on illegal immigration, reports have emerged that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its Citizen and Immigration Services have dished out $7.8 billion on immigration technologies since 2020. That's a lot of money on what the World Economic Forum reports is not the problem. So what's the deal?

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00:15:04

6.1 - New World Disorder

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2025/01/21

We kick off This Week In Cyberspace 2025 with a look at the inauguration of Donald Trump and how his American tech bros are falling over themselves to be part of the new world order/disorder. It's a laugh a minute as we get our heads around what just happened with over 100 Executive Orders signed, Trumpian memecoins launched, all against the backdrop of 170 million US Tik Tok users being kicked on and off the platform as the biggest deals in history are being negotiated.

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00:18:34

The Year That Was 2024 In Cyberspace

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2025/01/02

2024 was a big year, especially for elections with no less 2 billion people casting their votes. We’ve seen the impact of internet shutdowns in many countries and the influence of social media platforms, especially on the US election. In Russia Putin secured a 5th term and in Syria we saw a shift from digital control to digital freedom.We cast our eyes back on the year that was in cyberspace.

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00:18:19

5.6 - AI Sends Creatives into Crisis

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2024/12/25

AI is not only harvesting original music to generate it’s own cheap versions but taking away revenue from creatives. For the first time that amount has been calculated at about a quarter of the income of the creator within the next 5 years.The study on the global economic impact of Generative AI in the Music and Audio Visual Industries was released earlier this month in Paris. The study was put out by the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), representing more

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00:15:12

5.5 - Internet Governance Forum 2024

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2024/12/17

Right now in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, delegates are gathered from all over the world for the 20th United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum. The aim of the five day event is to inspire “a global commitment to responsible digital governance and [foster] a future where digital technologies serve the entire global community equitably and sustainably” But with people currently serving up to 45 years in prison in the host country for expressing dissent online, some civil society groups have decided

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00:19:00

Human Rights Day 2024

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2024/12/11

On the 76th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights we explore how human rights intersect with digital rights. Our rights, our Future. Right Now. That's the clarion call around the globe on this day for us all to embrace and trust the full power of human rights as the path to the world we want to live in - a more peaceful, equal and sustainable world.

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00:15:46

5.3 - Digital Ceasefire

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2024/12/03

There are over 100 conflicts happening right now all over planet Earth, wars that most of us would like to see an end to. But the battlefields of today are a very different to the ones of last century; the white flag coming out of the trenches is no longer enough to stop bullets.Wars are being controlled by satellites and fibre optic cables. In March this year a supposedly ‘invincible’ US Abram tank worth a cool $10 mill was destroyed in mere minutes by an unmanned Russian drone that cost its owner

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00:14:57

5.2 - Are You Old Enough?

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2024/11/27

We all know that governments like to censor the internet in times of crises, particularly authoritarian governments around election times to control the sort of information that voters have access to. Last Thursday, in a world first, the Australian Government introduced a bill to ban non-voters (all those under the age of 16) from accessing social media platforms because they’re not considered to be safe places for children. With bi-partisan support it looks set to sail through parliament. But what

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00:14:41

5.1 - New World Future

This Week In Cyberspace ·

2024/11/27

The rise of the authoritarian right in the USA was actively facilitated by the algorithms of certain social media platforms. This sinister digital development has sent tremors through the progressive left. But some organisations are fighting back. The Guardian said it will not post on the social media site X, saying it's a toxic media platform while the fiercely non-partisan tech focused organisation Fight for the Future released a feisty manifesto resisting the rise of the broligarchy. We take

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00:19:01

US Election Debrief

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2024/11/12

One week on from the American election and the progressive world is still reeling. How could a racist sexist autocratic felon have scored the top job? What has happened to the actual culture of the United States to allow Donald Trump to win the popular vote? For the Republicans, who supported an insurrection, and promoted crazy conspiracy theories and spread misinformation and disinformation, for them to be rewarded by the majority of the public? What are the global ramifications? And how do we move

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00:18:58

US Election Special #4

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2024/11/05

It's V-Day - Tuesday Nov 5 - the day America votes. But is the US election really coming down to a stand off between men and women? Trump is telling women that he’ll be their protector, while at the same time saying former congresswoman Liz Cheney should have guns trained at her face for critisising the storming of the Capitol last time. It’s a monumental shit show in the Republican Camp with Harris rising above the hateful rhetoric being hurled her way. But is morality going to win this election

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TWICS US Election Special #3

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2024/10/29

The US election has hit a new low with Donald Trump’s rally in Maddison Square Garden on Sunday Night turning into a real hate fest. Parallels have been made between the event and a Nazi rally in Maddison Square Garden back in 1939. The Republican nominee vowed to “Launch the largest deportation program in American history” and denounced the press “the enemy of the people”.Meanwhile in the swing state of Pennsylvania, Kamala Harris held a much smaller rally in Philadelphia and focused on the future

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00:16:29

U.S. Election Special #2

This Week In Cyberspace ·

2024/10/22

A new study has revealed that Americans are deeply concerned about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the election. Nearly 40% of those polled reckon AI will be used for evil with only 5% believing it is a force for good. And then there’s the money issue. Elon Musk has started giving away $1m a day to a voter who signs up to his America Political Action Committee petition, and he says he’s going to keep it up until election day. This strictly capitalist competition is intended to get Trump

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