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| The following are community updates from the weekly Glitter Meetup. If you need to connect to anyone mentioned below, please reach out. We do practice "consensual introductions," meaning we have to check with the person before doing so. No names are associated with the summary notes. Please contact us if you have any questions related to these notes. team@internetfreedomfestival.org
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| == March 5, 2020 == | | <span style="font-size:larger">'''Glitter Meetup''' (GM) is the weekly town hall of the Internet Freedom community, attracting digital rights defenders from all corners of the world!! On this page you will find the notes or "minutes" from previous meetups, and information about upcoming ones. </span> |
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| After making the hard decision of cancelling the 2020 edition of the Internet Freedom Festival because of the increasing spreading of the COVID-19, we gather with the community to answer questions and shape future editions and other ways to work together during the year.
| | * '''Every Thursday''' at 9:00am EDT |
| | * '''Where''' On the [[TCU Mattermost|TCU Mattermost?]] Secure an account [[TCU Mattermost|here]]. |
| | * '''Missed a Glitter Meetup?''' Don't worry the notes of each GM is listed below. |
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| Our decision was easy, once we knew that we had to protect our community.
| | GMs are text-based chats, and provide digital rights defenders with space to share their work, personal, or regional updates, as well as ask questions; secure support or resources; share their expertise; and grow their human network! From time to time, we invite a featured guest who shares their expertise, and participants can ask questions to directly. Once a month, we also host a more social GM called '''The Social Networking Glitter Meetup''' where you can connect with others in a more organic, social way. |
| * information sharing and coordination was key in our decision making process. Early in February, when the outbreak started reaching other countries, i began reaching out to other risk managers / safety friends who were working other global gatherings. mainly, i wanted to learn / know how other groups were managing the risk assessments. i started to track many of the conference cancellations and by mid-february, i knew that we had some hard decisions to make.
| | View our [[Calendar of Events]] for a complete list of our virtual events |
| * the overriding principle for us to ensure that our participants were safe at the IFF, safe during transit, and safe going home.
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| * when the cases in valencia increased, we knew that it was impossible for the virus to be contained and it would’ve severely impact our community, many of whom are freelancers or coming from organizations without institutional support.
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| '''Brainstorming about the IFF community work through the year:'''
| | We would love to have featured guests! If interested, email team@digitalrights.community |
| * Use an online conference website that allows for self-organize style...so i was thinking we can test out having a 2 hour self organize style online where people can do breakouts, and then report out back to the community. But it would be capped at x people.
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| * A monthly community report, where folks can share changes/developments in their regions, but also thought they have about direction of community.
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| * Try to better empower local hubs, and potentially do something fun between cities. Like for example, maybe two cities can meet at same time, and we create stations in each, where people can just go pu to the computer, and talk to folks in the other city.
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| '''Resources and Ideas:''' | | == '''Upcoming Meetups with Featured Guests''' == |
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| * We discussed different possibilities for presenters and participants and the challenges that people with high security level faces during webinars.
| | The following are upcoming Glitter Meetups with featured guests and/or topics every Thursday: |
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| * Virtual Conference: https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/
| | '''[[September 12 2024 GM|September 12, 2024 Glitter Meetup]]'''. ''Featured Guest: Taiwo'' |
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| * Tips on how to organize a virtual event: https://www.ictworks.org/coronavirus-cancel-conference/#.XmEM4pNKjBI
| | '''Topic:''' The Digital Rights Monopoly: Discussing Gamification as a Tool for Digital Literacy |
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| == February 27, 2020 ==
| | [[September 19 2024 GM|'''September 19, 2024 Glitter Meetup:''']] |
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| '''What is GlobaLeaks''' | | ''The collaborative community discussion on what is Happening in Digital Rights around the world'' |
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| * GlobaLeaks is a software based on Tor intended to enable journalistic sources to report anonymously to journalists. It is as well used in the anticorruption field and to protect sources in general.
| | '''[[October 10 2024 GM|October 10, 2024 Glitter Meetup:]]''' |
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| '''What about the installation?''' | | ''The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup'' |
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| * As any opensource software it is build and designed to be installed as a personal tool on a personal infrastructure. In addition to this the software nowadays make it possible a hosting organization to safely provision a platform as a service to other organizations. This is working well empowering anticorruption NGOs to provision the software to their partner organizations.
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| * In this sense small organizations can rely on the knowledge and the infrastructure of more structured organizations.
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| '''GlobaLeaks is used all over the world''' | | {| class="wikitable" style="float:right; margin-left: 10px; width: 30%; background-color:#89dff7;" |
| | |[https://www.digitaljustice.house/ '''Review our Digital Justice House Toolkit here'''], which proposes three transformations in the digital rights workplace to improve your team health: |
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| * Transparency International italy using this model is supporting 1000 public agencies building anticorruption mailboxes | | * Right to disconnect |
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| * For the new release coming very soon (GlobaLeaks 4) they are calling translators to translate the news strings
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| * GlobaLeaks-based platform are accessible via the Tor browser using an onion link guaranteeing digital anonymity: https://www.opentech.fund/news/taking-anonymous-online-whistleblowing-global/
| | The following are community updates from the weekly Glitter Meetup. If you need to connect to anyone mentioned below, please reach out. We do practice "consensual introductions," meaning we have to check with the person before doing so. No names are associated with the summary notes. Please contact us if you have any questions related to these notes: team@digitalrights.community |
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| '''How or why was Globaleaks started. Meaning, what pushed forward the development?'''
| | [[September 5 2024 GM|'''September 5, 2024 Glitter Meetup''']]. ''Featured Guest: Chirayu Desai'' |
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| * In 2011, the team identified the need for a tool empowering defending people willing to report malpractices of society.
| | '''Topic:''' Is There HOPE for Phone Privacy? CalyxOS and Privacy-Focused FLOSS Phone Solutions |
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| * It was the time of DataLeaking; working on this we discovered that some organizations like Transparency International and Privacy Concern At Work were already supporting this "heroes" with analogic and improper tools.
| | '''[[July 25 2024 GM|July 25, 2024 Glitter Meetup]]'''. ''Featured Guests: Fabiola Maurice and Tiffany Robertson'' |
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| * As technologist they worked on trying to renew this tools providing digital secure tools to fight the same causes.
| | '''Topic:''' ''Butter Box - Life Without Internet Made Smoother'' |
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| '''Paterns on whistlebowers''' | | [[July 18 2024 GM|'''July 18, 2024 Glitter Meetup''':]] |
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| * Many of this revelations take time to be processed because legal procedures takes places and last longer
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| * They are aware of important cases of reporting and currently not aware of any retailiation due to the use of their technology
| | '''[[July 11 2024 GM|July 11, 2024 Glitter Meetup]]'''. ''Featured Guest: Hiure'' |
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| * EU for example is going to be well regulated and offers more legal protections in this sense
| | '''Topic:''' ''Community Networks Guide'' |
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| == February 20, 2020 ==
| | '''[[July 4 2024 GM|July 4, 2024 Glitter Meetup]]''': |
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| * Myanmar Digital Rights Forum: https://www.digitalrightsmm.info/
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| | '''[[June 27 2024 GM|June 27, 2024 Glitter Meetup]]'''. ''Featured Guest: Karolin'' |
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| == February 13, 2020 ==
| | '''Topic:''' ''Rosenpass – Securing Cryptographic Applications Against Quantum Computer Attacks'' |
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| * Today Russian court fined Twitter and Facebook for not moving their servers to Russia: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/02/13/russia-fines-twitter-and-facebook-63000-each-over-data-law-a69280
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| * PBS Frontline just published a documentary about Hong Kong Protests: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/battle-for-hong-kong/ (but might only allows in Northen America region)
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| * Malaysian gov recently actively arresting and charging/fining people who post/spread false information about coronavirus. Last update was 2 days ago, someone in east Malaysia got fined about MYR5000 and one reporter was arrested and on bail now.
| | '''[[June 13 2024 GM|June 13, 2024 Glitter Meetup.]]''' ''Featured Guests: Lebo & Leonora'' |
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| * Check this article, written by one of our fellows, about guidelines to create digisec policy and best practices for small scale organization: https://www.opentech.fund/news/guidelines-creating-digital-security-policy/
| | '''Topic:''' Kwanele's Journey Navigating Ethical Tech for GBV Justice |
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| == February 6, 2020 ==
| | [[June 6 2024 GM|'''June 6, 2024 Glitter Meetup''']]: |
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| * VPN users being tortured in Kashmir: https://www.vpncompare.co.uk/vpn-torture-kashmir/
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| * For the Tor users on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL, we now have official packages from the Tor Project https://support.torproject.org/rpm/
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| * People run Tor relays on different Linux based operating systems, but, mostly Debian/Ubuntu could directly install Tor package from the Tor project itself, now, people using Fedora or CentOS or RHEL can also get the latest and greatest version of the Tor directly from Tor itself.
| | '''Topic:''' Conversations Around Funding |
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| == January 16, 2020 ==
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| Our feature guest is Tek, a security researcher working for Amnesty Tech on digital surveillance against Human Right Defenders. He is also a research fellow at the Citizen Lab. Today we are going to talk to him about his article: '''Targeted Attacks Against Civil Society''' (https://www.randhome.io/blog/2019/12/02/targeted-attacks-against-civil-society-what-is-new-in-2019/)
| | [[May 16 2024 GM|'''May 16, 2024 Glitter Meetup''']]. ''Featured Guest: Selamawit Tezera'' |
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| '''What are targeted attacks?''' | | '''Topic:''' sheEsecures - a Platform for an Inclusive and Feminist Internet |
| * We call targeted attacks, malware of phishing attacks targeting people for the sake of gathering information on them, so there is no intention of getting any money (like cyber-criminal attacks such as ransomware would do), but monitor their activities. This type of attack is not new, first reports about such attacks against civil society date back to 2008 and the report on Ghostnet targeted the Dalai Lama office in India.
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| * Historically, it started with a lot of emails with malware attached to them, either documents using vulnerabilities to install a malware of just a malware pretending to be a document (and sometime opening it). These attacks are still happening, like in Azerbaijan a few years ago https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2017/03/False-Friends-Spearphishing-of-Dissidents-in-Azerbaijan/
| | [[May 9 2024 GM|'''May 9, 2024 Glitter Meetup:''']] ''Featured Guest: Nathaly Espitia Diaz'' |
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| * But more and more people started to use documents in the cloud, on Google drive to others. So the attackers started targeting more and more the mailbox with phishing email. These attacks are way more easy because you do not need a malware, just copy a login page on a fake domain and record the password when the user enter it.
| | '''Topic:''' "Convite"- the Security and Self-care Communication Program for Indigenous, Black and Rural Communities in Colombia |
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| * Citizen Lab wrote about this change in tactics in 2016 against Tibetan communities https://citizenlab.ca/2016/03/shifting-tactics/ and it is something we see very regularly now, like in Egypt last year https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2019/03/phishing-attacks-using-third-party-applications-against-egyptian-civil-society-organizations/
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| * And lately we are investigating more and more more advanced attacks done using malware and exploits sold by companies like NSO group. Citizen Lab wrote about it for the first time in 2016 https://citizenlab.ca/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphone-zero-day-nso-group-uae/ and we have investigated attacks using NSO group recently in Morocco https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2019/10/Morocco-Human-Rights-Defenders-Targeted-with-NSO-Groups-Spyware/
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| * These attacks are targeting smartphones with very advanced techniques, often using 0-day exploits that costs a lot of money. These attacks are more rare but also very dangerous because they are able to compromise smartphones with little or no user interaction. (There is today a court hearing going on Israel for a petition asking the Israeli MOD to revoke NSO Group export license, see https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/01/israel-court-nso-case-behind-closed-doors/ )
| | [[April 25 2024 GM|'''April 25, 2024 Glitter Meetup.''']] ''Featured Guest: Holmes Wilson'' |
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| '''Has 2019 witness more attacks against civil society than in previous years?''' | | '''Topic:''' Quiet: A Secure Slack Alternative for Groups that Outgrow Signal |
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| * Yes, especially because of the discovery of attacks against Uyghurs and the WhatsApp hack by NSO on which we got a lot of information thanks to WhatsApp / FB. But it is hard to say if it is that we know more or if there are more.
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| * We have a lot of knowledge on the attacks in some regions (like Tibetan activists, or Mexico) because of work done there, but there are still areas (like South America) where we have very little knowledge.
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| * First, there are a lot of phishing attacks targeting online accounts and they get more complex in two ways: first they regularly use OAuth authentication. OAuth is a protocol that allows an external application to get access to your Google/Facebook/Outlook account for different reasons, it is for instance the protocol that is used when you login into a website with your FB/Google/Twitter/Other account. What is dangerous with that is that it is pretty different from other phishing attacks, and it is easy for people to fall into it. (read more about it here https://guides.securitywithoutborders.org/guide-to-phishing/oauth-phishing.html )
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| '''So we aren't able to know if the attacks have been increasing but we can confirm that the methods are getting more complex''' | | '''Topic:''' Learn More About the Election Watch for the Digital Age Project |
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| * We don't know what we don't know, so it is hard to factually prove that there are more attacks. We are seeing more advanced attacks by groups like NSO, with 0-day and no-click attacks, but the vast majority of attacks are still not very sophisticated and using techniques that have been there for a while and are cheap (like fake google domains)
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| * On phishing, something we have started to see in 2019 is using phishing kits that are bypassing most forms of Two Factor authentication. Two Factor Authentication is having another authentication method beyond your password, it is often a token given by SMS, by a smartphone app (such as FreeOTP, or Google Authenticator) or a hardware key.
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| * Modern phishing kits are using a technique to relay the request to their fake website to the real platform and this bypass all forms of two factor authentication, except hardware tokens. It is thus important to promote more hardware keys like Yubikey or Solokeys
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| * This is pretty new, but there are now open source phishing kits doing that, and most of the phishing attacks we see today are bypassing most forms of second factor.
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| * And there is like a gap between companies selling very advanced tools (NSO has 500+ employees), and some government paying hackers with average technical skills to send phishing to activists. The first one is more advanced, harder to fight against, but also more rare, and most of the attacks we see are the second case.
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| '''You talk about attacks bypassing 2 factor Authorization, and the need to move towards hardware token for 2fa Where can you purchase this hardware? If folks can’t afford it, are there are places where they may be able to get it for free?''' | | '''Topic:''' "Localizing Security in a Box" in Indonesian |
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| * There are different organizations doing hardware tokens, the most used are Yubikeys, Solokeys and now Google is making their own Titan keys
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| * Several organizations are providing some to activists for free, we try to bring some when we are doing a security training. You often get some at events like IFF.
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| * It really depends on the context of the country, we see some countries like Russia or China developing skills of targeted attacks in the country, they even have often several groups in charge of different types of attacks (companies or activists).
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| * In many other countries, they are not able to do that, and they rely on buying the malware and tools from companies like NSO Group, Hacking Team, FinFisher etc. These companies are mostly based in Europe (often in Italy) or Israel.
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| * And they are often involved in a broader surveillance ecosystem, with companies like NICE (an american company) reselling and installing tools from other manifacturers
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| * There is one case in Mexico reported by Citizen Lab where they targeted the son of a prominent journalist https://citizenlab.ca/2017/06/reckless-exploit-mexico-nso/
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| '''Some HRA uses external sites to 'upload' evidence and content to and then delete/remove it from their own devices. Are there certain places that keep content safe from these attacks?''' | | '''[[February 15 2024 GM|February 15, 2024 GM]]''' |
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| * Uploading sensitive data from a server and removing from the phone can be really useful for instance for crossing borders, or during protests, but if the phone is compromised before, the attackers may be able to monitor the phone activity before it is uploaded and remove from it.
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| * This attacks are mostly not about digital means of protection but psychological ones. ("How can I distinguish that someone's trying to use me? How can I see what vulnerabilites of mine are most likely to be used by bad guys?") We discovered that digital things (such as 2FA) simply didn't work in some situations and we needed some assistance from psychologists to work with people.
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| * We have seen many cases where attackers used quite low-level attacks but they were combined with very good knowledge of the political context and good social engineering skills. There is definitely more work to be done to understand how to explain phishing and help people react to social engineering and I have not seen many psychologists involved in it, it would definitely be interesting
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| * Is some good work being done and developed to improve security trainings and make them more into adult training, so maybe there are psychologists involved in it (https://level-up.cc/ )
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| * developing ways to explain these attacks better are definitely needed more. A good example of some work done in that area is the phishing quizz developed by Google https://phishingquiz.withgoogle.com/
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| * There are many different directions to fight against these attacks. One of our approach is to make forensic knowledge more easily available to tech people supporting human right defenders. It is very common to have people think their device is compromised and we did not have any good methodology to check if it really was. So with Security Without Borders, we have developed a guide to help with that https://guides.securitywithoutborders.org/guide-to-quick-forensics/
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| '''Regarding to the malware spreading on Telegram during HK Protests. There's anything we can do? Like a bot that can filter those or identify those...?''' | | [[January 18 2024 GM|'''January 18, 2024 Glitter Meetup''']] |
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| For this Glitter Meetup, we have a feature guest: Tamara, one of the Community Builders of the 2020 IFF. She works on emergency assistance for activists and journalists around the world.
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| '''Is harassment online a real problem for women journalists? can you explain a bit about this? Where it happens? Why it happens? And are there any populations or areas of the world this happens more than others, or is it global?'''
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| * Yes, online harassment is a real problem for journalists, but even more so for female journalists.
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| * As a female journalist she has faced online harassment based on gender many times, may it be from comments under her articles, or from online audiences during panels that she was speaking on, etc. Back then, she thought that perhaps she was doing something wrong or that she should simply not pay attention to this and not be too soft.
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| * Five years ago she started working on emergency assistance, and over 40% of their casework covers journalists. And of course, they face all sorts of threats. Arrest, murder, you name it. But. A lot of times the harassment/ threats/ insults start online. The thing is that journalists often don’t take those seriously. Female journalists in particular often think that this just comes with the job.
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| * The harassers don't discriminate, in every region there are plenty of them. There is a difference however with regards to who the harassers are. So, for example, in Eurasia and MENA regions, we have seen more government and troll factory-based harassers of female journalists, in the US it is more from certain conservative groups, etc. But if we look at the specific areas of coverage. Number one, at least according to some of our data at the emergency assistance program is corruption reporting. Then come issues, such as migration, LGBTQI.
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| * Troll factories are literally offices where people are hired to sit and search online space for content and comment in order to create fuss, or harass someone, etc. In Azerbaijan, for example, troll factories are used to harass female reporters, opposition, but also simply to 'express love for the president and their family'. Being a troll is a paid job sometimes, also in some countries students of state-funded universities or state employees are forced to be trolls for free (or they lose school placement, or their job)
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| '''Many folks here are digital security trainers, or provide digital security support. what advice can they give to women journalist they may be assisting who may be experiencing this. what can be done''' | |
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| * First and foremost it is important that female journalists don't normalize online harassment and recognize that there is a threat. The problem with online threats that I have seen in the past five years of my work is that they usually escalate. For example, if at first someone is telling a female journalist that she is a liar and she therefore deserves to die, then eventually a physical attack from this person, or from others who were 'inspired' by this harasser follows.
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| * Now, in terms of what digital security experts can advise. When online harassment happens and even in other instances, female journalists need to first of all take care of their own security. We usually recommend that they talk both to digital and physical security experts.
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| '''What tools or sites you recommend to find more info about Online Security for female journalists?'''
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| * Getting in touch with Frontline Defenders' digital experts, or Access Now, or, smaller digital security and physical security expert groups, such as, for example, people from Tbilisi Shelter in Georgia.
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| * One participant added that FLD, Access Now, etc. are great advices for the majority of human rights defenders and independent journalists but there should be something more specific when it comes to female journalists and online threats.
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| * IWMF, CPJ, Amnesty have some good resources on their sites. But there aren't enough groups that deal with online harassment in general, and especially online harassment against women regionally. For example, in the North Caucasus in Russia where such attacks have happened, and very little to no local support is available.
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| '''Are there any gender-specific advices on (say) guidelines, recommendations, anything to read? watch online?'''
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| * With regards to steps: '''1.''' stop your current work and focus on addressing your security situation '''2.''' if you work full time as a reporter, your management is your first call. If you are a freelancer, speak to your immediate support network (your fellow reporter friends, civil society groups inside your country that help journalists and female journalists in particular) and then speak to groups that support journalists (happy to help connect if needed), such as Acos Alliance, Rory Peck Trust, CPJ, RSF, Freedom House, Frontline Defenders, Civil rights defenders, etc. '''3.''' Develop a security plan. Female journalists often have dependents in their care, such as minors or parents. Make sure your security plan includes them. '''4.''' Your security plan has to cover your digital presence (such as, don't checkin on IG and FB, don't post personal info, contact white pages (or whatever address book alternative in your country) and ask them to take down your address, etc. But it also has to include psycho-social and physical security components. Such as, don't take your usual route to work. Checkin more frequently with your children, etc. (this sounds scary and somewhat unnecessary at times, but it is vital) '''5.''' If the harassment includes exposure of any content with regards to you online, develop a plan re how to eliminate that content (contacting social media platform, mobilizing a support network. in some cases, even take legal action). '''6.''' If things escalate, we usually recommend temporary relocation. as disruptive as it sounds to your life, it is sometimes needed to avoid further escalation.
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| * One participant added a good advice: "other journalists reported shifting how they cover the news to prevent harassment. For example, an online reporter in Taiwan said she focuses on positive news so she won’t get attacked"
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| * A Latina newspaper reporter in the U.S. took a different tack. She said she faced extreme harassment online when she started her job five years ago, so now she is extra-vigilant about showing multiple sides of a story to prevent complaints that may escalate into abuse. On the other hand, a TV journalist in the U.S. said she tries to avoid details in her stories that she knows will upset people. “Yes, it affects the way I do my stories,” she said. “I am more careful.”
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| * It is important to have colleagues to rely on to talk about harassment encountered and to help by, for instance, moderating the comments
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| * Uses Facebook’s word-blocker function on professional page to prevent words like “sexy,” “hot,” or “boobs” from being posted by users
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| * IAWRT Manual: https://www.iawrt.org/sites/default/files/field/pdf/2017/11/IAWRT%20Safety%20Manual.Download.10112017.pdf
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| * CPJ Canada/USA survey: https://cpj.org/blog/2019/09/canada-usa-female-journalist-safety-online-harassment-survey.php
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| * CPJ manual on how to mitigate sexual violence https://cpj.org/2019/09/physical-safety-mitigating-sexual-violence.php
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| * IJNET Guide: https://ijnet.org/en/story/how-newsrooms-can-fight-online-harassment-targeting-female-journalists
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| * GIJN Guide: https://gijn.org/gijn-guide-resources-for-women-journalists/
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| * OSCE Guide: https://www.osce.org/fom/220411?download=true
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| * OSCE Manual: https://www.osce.org/representative-on-freedom-of-media/safety-female-journalists-online
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| '''Can you talk a bit about the psychological impact this has?'''
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| * The psychological impact is huge indeed. From own experience covering mass protests back at home in 2005-2008, as a young female journalist you would get harassed all the time, so you try to wear least revealing clothes, put all of your hair under a hat, always go with a male colleague on reporting assignments, make sure your phone is charged, etc.
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| * From Tamara's experience working with female journalists in the past five years, the most unfortunate psychological effect is that female journalists start self-censoring or that they cease their journalistic activities.
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| == Community Updates 2019 Part 2==
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| You will find here all the ideas, discussions and topics that the community created from July to December of 2019 on our weekly Glitter Meetups:
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| https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Community_Updates_2019_Part_2
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| == Community Updates 2019 Part 1==
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| You will find here all the ideas, discussions and topics that the community created from January to June of 2019 on our weekly Glitter Meetups:
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| == Community Updates 2018==
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| You will find here all the ideas, discussions and topics that the community created during the 2018 on our weekly Glitter Meetups:
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Glitter Meetup (GM) is the weekly town hall of the Internet Freedom community, attracting digital rights defenders from all corners of the world!! On this page you will find the notes or "minutes" from previous meetups, and information about upcoming ones.
- Every Thursday at 9:00am EDT
- Where On the TCU Mattermost? Secure an account here.
- Missed a Glitter Meetup? Don't worry the notes of each GM is listed below.
GMs are text-based chats, and provide digital rights defenders with space to share their work, personal, or regional updates, as well as ask questions; secure support or resources; share their expertise; and grow their human network! From time to time, we invite a featured guest who shares their expertise, and participants can ask questions to directly. Once a month, we also host a more social GM called The Social Networking Glitter Meetup where you can connect with others in a more organic, social way.
View our Calendar of Events for a complete list of our virtual events
We would love to have featured guests! If interested, email team@digitalrights.community
Upcoming Meetups with Featured Guests
The following are upcoming Glitter Meetups with featured guests and/or topics every Thursday:
September 12, 2024 Glitter Meetup. Featured Guest: Taiwo
Topic: The Digital Rights Monopoly: Discussing Gamification as a Tool for Digital Literacy
September 19, 2024 Glitter Meetup:
The collaborative community discussion on what is Happening in Digital Rights around the world
October 10, 2024 Glitter Meetup:
The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup
October 24, 2024 Glitter Meetup:
The collaborative community discussion on what is Happening in Digital Rights around the world
Notes from Past Glitter Meetups
The following are community updates from the weekly Glitter Meetup. If you need to connect to anyone mentioned below, please reach out. We do practice "consensual introductions," meaning we have to check with the person before doing so. No names are associated with the summary notes. Please contact us if you have any questions related to these notes: team@digitalrights.community
September 5, 2024 Glitter Meetup. Featured Guest: Chirayu Desai
Topic: Is There HOPE for Phone Privacy? CalyxOS and Privacy-Focused FLOSS Phone Solutions
July 25, 2024 Glitter Meetup. Featured Guests: Fabiola Maurice and Tiffany Robertson
Topic: Butter Box - Life Without Internet Made Smoother
July 18, 2024 Glitter Meetup:
The collaborative community discussion on what is Happening in Digital Rights around the world
July 11, 2024 Glitter Meetup. Featured Guest: Hiure
Topic: Community Networks Guide
July 4, 2024 Glitter Meetup:
The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup
June 27, 2024 Glitter Meetup. Featured Guest: Karolin
Topic: Rosenpass – Securing Cryptographic Applications Against Quantum Computer Attacks
June 20, 2024 Glitter Meetup:
The collaborative community discussion on what is Happening in Digital Rights around the world
June 13, 2024 Glitter Meetup. Featured Guests: Lebo & Leonora
Topic: Kwanele's Journey Navigating Ethical Tech for GBV Justice
June 6, 2024 Glitter Meetup:
The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup
May 30, 2024 Glitter Meetup.
Topic: Conversations Around Funding
May 23, 2024 Glitter Meetup:
The collaborative community discussion on what is Happening in Digital Rights around the world
May 16, 2024 Glitter Meetup. Featured Guest: Selamawit Tezera
Topic: sheEsecures - a Platform for an Inclusive and Feminist Internet
May 9, 2024 Glitter Meetup: Featured Guest: Nathaly Espitia Diaz
Topic: "Convite"- the Security and Self-care Communication Program for Indigenous, Black and Rural Communities in Colombia
May 2, 2024 Glitter Meetup:
The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup
April 25, 2024 Glitter Meetup. Featured Guest: Holmes Wilson
Topic: Quiet: A Secure Slack Alternative for Groups that Outgrow Signal
April 18, 2024 Glitter Meetup:
The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup
April 11, 2024 Glitter Meetup
Featured Guests: Elizabeth Sutterlin and Maddie Masinsin
Topic: Learn More About the Election Watch for the Digital Age Project
April 4, 2024 Glitter Meetup
What is Happening in Digital Rights Around the World?
March 28, 2024 Glitter Meetup
The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup
March 21, 2024 Glitter Meetup
Featured Guests: Icaldua and Flo
Topic: "Localizing Security in a Box" in Indonesian
March 14, 2024 Glitter Meetup
Featured Guest: Martín Szyszlican
Topic: Open Data and Civic Tech to Circumvent Government Censorship and Disinformation in Latin America
March 7, 2024 Glitter Meetup
What is Happening in Digital Rights Around the World?
February 29, 2024 Glitter Meetup
The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup
February 22, 2024 Glitter Meetup
Featured Guest: Kwaku Antwi
Topic: Online Monitoring in Ghana
February 15, 2024 GM
Topic: Digital Security Challenges of Journalists in Myanmar
February 8, 2024 Glitter Meetup
The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup
February 1, 2024 Glitter Meetup
What is happening in Digital Rights around the world?
January 25, 2024 Glitter Meetup
Featured Guest: Feras Bezanti
Topic: Digital Safety in Libya: A Helpdesk Overview
January 18, 2024 Glitter Meetup
Featured Guest: Sapni GK
Topic: Platform Cooperativism in India
January 11, 2024 Glitter Meetup
The Glitterest Glitter Meetup: Welcome back!
Glitter Meetup Notes 2023
Glitter Meetup Notes 2022
Glitter Meetup Notes 2021
Glitter Meetup Notes 2020
Glitter Meetup Notes Before March 26, 2020
