David Nolan

Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub

FT reveals Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG and suggested the term. Now trying to frantically distance themselves ↘️ on.ft.com/4lJ8FnV

07.07.2025 05:20 — 👍 134    🔁 85    💬 10    📌 16

How we investigated Amsterdam’s attempt to build a ‘fair’ fraud detection model Amsterdam spent years trying to build an unbiased welfare fraud algorithm. Here’s what we found when we analyzed it.

We’re committed to showing how we work. Our full methodology and the underlying code are available on Github.

11.06.2025 13:39 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Photograph of people walking past the rubble of collapsed and damaged buildings along a street in Gaza City. Overlaying text reads: THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S HUMAN RIGHTS. Amnesty International's Annual Report 2024/2025.

Amnesty's 2025 annual report, The State of the World's Human Rights, highlights how tech has played a key role in governments using repressive tactics to attack human rights and silence critics...🧵

14.05.2025 17:01 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Late post but I'm at #RightsCon2025 in Taipei this week in-person, do reach out if you want to chat all things AI & Human Rights, particularly around public sector use of emerging technologies, would love to chat

25.02.2025 05:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Former Palantir and Elon Musk Associates Are Taking Over Key Government IT Roles The chief information officers of at least three major government agencies have been replaced by Silicon Valley executives, including from Palantir and Elon Musk's SpaceX.

NEW: Former Palantir and Elon Musk Associates Are Taking Over Key Government IT Roles

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

12.02.2025 14:38 — 👍 249    🔁 158    💬 12    📌 13

Damini Satija, Director of Tech and Human Rights at Amnesty is at the Paris #AIActionSummit.

She's sharing three things we're asking decision makers to take heed of on AI harms and regulation 👇

11.02.2025 11:48 — 👍 43    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 0

New year's resolution to stop looking at twitter

10.01.2025 11:15 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0