Digital rights, human rights: Facebook faces the music, part 2

Thursday, 19 April 2018 - 6:00pm to 6:30pm

Revelations around the Cambridge Analytica data mining scandal generated bucket loads of commentary, much of it focused on Facebook users as customers, or consumers. We're warned - read the fine print, look out for the contractual arrangement in the last paragraph. Sarah Joseph, the Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University, has different take - she says that if we’re going to put Facebook under the microscope let’s do it, not just from the point of view of the consumer, but in reference to human rights.

Current and future directions of social media and human rights get explored and workshopped by participants at two day forum called Internet Community Hack: Defending Truth. Software developer and digital rights advocate, Andrew Jones explains the event and the thinking behind it.