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Open Global Rights (2025, January-April) Will Human Rights Guide Technological Development?
Curating a 6-part series for NYU’s Human Rights Center, featuring thought leaders on digital ID, border surveillance tech, AI governance, networked activism, and the rise of carceral technologies.
TV
Live Now Fox (2024,Aug 29). French Authorities charge Telegram's CEO Pavel Durov.
Analyzed Telegram's position in the information ecosystem, including concerns regarding the robustness of the service's encryption following Durov's detention, the underlying geopolitical tensions, and risks government crackdowns pose for tech workers.
Ortiz Freuler, J. (2023). Towards a Post Capitalist Internet. New Internationalist. https://newint.org/issues/2023/10/24/surveillance-how-governments-spy-dissent (view pdf )
Informational capitalism turns humans into data commodities, fueling corporate profits and enabling unprecedented state surveillance. In this piece, I argue Non-Alignment can help us re-imagine the internet beyond capitalism,
Opinion
Ortiz Freuler, J. (2023). When human rights turned into an AI-driven game of lottery. Open Global Rights
In this op-ed I explore how the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence is fueling a probabilistic turn in our worldview. One that shifts the focus from past to future, from individual to group behavior, and from certainty to mere plausibility.
TV
CNN Español -Dinero (2022, July 16).¿TikTok puede filtrar tus datos? Experto lo analiza
Explained the types of data collected by TikTok, the potential concerns US officials might have, the position of US agencies, and how a ban on TikTok might trigger similar challenges by foreign governments eager to target the presence of US within their territories.
Opinion
Ortiz Freuler, J. & Quintarelli, S. (2022). Building a sustainable path towards planetary system of knowledge. Euractiv.
To counter digital monopolies and align our information ecosystems with planetary challenges, we must advance an integrated policy framework combining neutrality (preventing gatekeeping), portability (freeing data from silos), and interoperabi
Opinion
Ortiz Freuler, J. (2020). The case for a digital non-aligned movement. Open Democracy.
In what has come to be a prescient oped, I argue the internet will continue fracturing under US-China tech rivalry, a process that will accelerate in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, as governments deal with debt. It outlines how a Digital Non-Aligned Movement under Global South leadership can reclai
Podcast interview
“The Global South Holds a Better Future of Tech w/ Juan Ortiz Freuler”. Tech Won't Save US (July, 2020)
The digital world is fracturing along geopolitical lines. As Big Tech profits soar while nations struggle to tax them, a Digital Non-Aligned Movement, led by the Global South, emerges as the key to reclaiming our collective knowledge systems from corporate control, and redirecti
Commentary
Wired, “Bridging the Internet’s Digital Language Divide” (June 6, 2019)
Commentary
Washington Post, “The Technology 202: Facebook's messaging plans spark privacy, antitrust concerns around the world” (January 29, 2019)
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