😩 8 weeks after letting them know, still no changes to these terms. Apparently protecting digital #humanRights just aren't that important to #RightsCon. 🕵🏽

So do we infer that any one who does participate in this conference is just performatively claiming to care about digital human rights?

Or is it just incompetence on the part of the organisers?

I can't speak to what is surely a wide variety of attendees. But I know for a fact that many if not most nonprofits (especially those with corporate/large donors) often don't fully embrace (live) the values they claim to "fight" for...

I mean I get its hard for conferences, I spoke at LCA and I knew Google and IBM were sponsoring. But that was for a Linux conf.

This is a conference about human rights and you have Zoom?, Facebook. Then the 3rd party proprietary data stealing?

With the subject matter, I'm disappointed they didn't hold themselves to a higher standard. I suspect they were too far down the line to change.

💯 and I'm not surprised. But I'm disappointed. The vendor is a small company and wouldn't have to go through much legal hurdle if the organizers insisted it mattered to them. AFAIK there are no business models at play here that are designed to monetize the data they collect -- just standards and norms that (at least many) attendees are advocating against...