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Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This morning we saw live video of democracy protesters in Yemen who have been following the discussions via streaming video. Maria Al-Masani, founder of the Yemen Rights Monitor human rights group, told conference participants how her fellow activists have effectively used common applications to circumvent censorship.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice.

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How Nonprofits Have Reframed Their Messaging in the Wake of COVID-19

Connection Cafe

Nicole Evans, National Director, Resource Development Strategy & Communications, Boys & Girls Clubs of America. We talked to Stephen Peeler, Executive Director of the IDSA Foundation , about their shifts in messaging to more expressly support the most important work in our country today. “We

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National Security Council adds Gmail to its list of bad decisions

Engadget

Unless you are using GPG, email is not end-to-end encrypted, and the contents of a message can be intercepted and read at many points, including on Googles email servers," Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation told the Post.

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As Top Officials Were Messaging a Group Text About Bomb Plans, Their Passwords Were Leaked Online

Futurism

After engaging the people search site, the reporters were sent cell phone numbers and email addresses for the two officials, and cross-references on leaked file databases revealed that both of their passwords had been exposed repeatedly in hacks that were later made public.

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The Trump administration accidentally texted military plans to a journalist. The White House says its fine.

Mashable Tech

The Trump administration accidentally texted an Atlantic journalist its plans to bomb Yemen last week. airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen took place on Saturday. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared plans to bomb Yemen in the Signal chat. It seems obtaining confidential information on U.S. officials about it.

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Trump abruptly ousts the National Security Agency chief

Fast Company Tech

President Donald Trump has abruptly fired the director of the National Security Agency, according to U.S. Jim Himes, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanding to know why Haugh and Noble were fired.