<div dir="ltr">Ben,<div><br></div><div>We are presenting a paper on the topic of the weaponization of cyberspace and its adverse affects human rights at Citizen lab next week. The paper is entitled: "Cyber Losers".</div>
<div><br></div><div>Once we have presented it. I will send you a copy. In the paper we created a dataset of state cyber weapons capabilities across 10 countries and then examined digital human rights violations in those countries across three separate datasets. We hypothesized a correlation between weaponization and digital human rights violations. The trends match indicating a relationship between weaponization and the subsequent use of those tools on citizens within countries. </div>
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<div><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>One topic that hasn't gotten enough public attention is the practical impact of surveillance programs on human rights work. This is a subject WITNESS is going to explore in a blog post next week, and I'm curious if any of you are anticipating challenges in communicating and exchanging information with each other and/or activists on the ground because of concerns about surveillance by the NSA and its partners.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If there's an existing effort to document such impacts, or to communicate this message to policymakers, please let me know!</div><div><br>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Ben</div></div><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Ben Doernberg<div>Program Associate - Citizen Journalism and Technology Advocacy</div><div>WITNESS</div><div><a href="tel:%28718%29%20783-2000%20x319" value="+17187832000" target="_blank">(718) 783-2000 x319</a></div>
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