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- UNESCO: Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology (2025)
Government Record · 2025
UNESCO
UNESCO's 2025 recommendation says collecting, processing, changing or sharing neural data should require prior, free and informed consent.
- Unheard Voice: Evaluating five years of pro-Western covert influence operations
Document · 2022
Graphika and Stanford Internet Observatory
The repository records platform removals for manipulation/spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior and subsequent provision of portions of activity to researchers.
- United Nations Legal Identity Agenda (SDG 16.9)
Government Record · 2015
United Nations Statistics Division
The UN goal to provide legal identity for all, including birth registration, by 2030.
- United States v. Drew, 259 F.R.D. 449: Order Granting Motion for Judgment of Acquittal
Court Filing · 2009
Judge George H. Wu, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Judge Wu recounts the November 2008 misdemeanor verdicts and deadlocked conspiracy count, then grants acquittal. Treating intentional terms-of-service breach alone as a CFAA misdemeanor would criminalize…
- United States v. Google LLC and YouTube LLC, Stipulated Order for Permanent Injunction and Civil Penalty Judgment
Court Filing · 2019
Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General
The order resolves allegations that YouTube collected children’s personal information without required parental consent. Payments total $170 million: $136 million to FTC and $34 million to…
- United States v. Moalin, No. 13-50572
Court Filing · 2020
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit held the metadata program exceeded FISA authorization, but affirmed the convictions and found suppression unwarranted.
- Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights (UNESCO, 1997)
Government Record · 1997
UNESCO General Conference
UNESCO's 1997 declaration calls the human genome the heritage of humanity in a symbolic sense and says the genome in its natural state shall not give…
- Unregulated Tech Mediation → Inevitable Online Deception → Societal Harm
Transcript · 2020
Tristan Harris
Harris’s prepared testimony discusses intermittent variable rewards, slot-machine comparisons, infinite scrolling, stopping cues, notification sounds, likes, filters, and moral outrage.
- USA FREEDOM Act, Public Law 114-23
Government Record · 2015
United States Congress
The Act ended the prior bulk Section 215 mechanism by requiring a specific selection term and creating a new targeted call-detail-record process.
- WEF Global Risks Report 2022
Document · 2022
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum's 2022 survey of global risks.
- WEF: Interview with Klaus Schwab Ahead of China Meeting (2016)
Document · 2016
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum, 2016: an interview with Klaus Schwab about the Fourth Industrial Revolution and China. It contains no praise of China's one-child policy, and no…
- WEF: Shaping the Future of the Internet of Bodies (2020)
Document · 2020
World Economic Forum in collaboration with McGill University
The World Economic Forum's 2020 paper describes an unprecedented number of sensors attached to, implanted in or swallowed into human bodies to monitor, analyze and even…
- WEF: What If We Get Things Right? Visions for 2030 (2020)
Document · 2020
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum, 2020: presents its 2030 essays as imagined futures and says each reflects the author's views, not the Forum's. The Forum's own framing of…
- What Our Research Really Says About Teen Well-Being and Instagram
Document · 2021
Meta Platforms
Meta says 22% of girls already reporting body-image problems said Instagram made them better and 45.5% reported no impact. It says the research did not measure…
- Wired: Grimes Is Ready to Be a Self-Replicating Pop Star (2023)
News Report · 2023
Wired
Wired, August 2023: Grimes on AI, wanting to be "a self-replicating pop star," AI companions for children, and saying she would "probably" get a Neuralink implant…
- World Bank: Identification for Development (ID4D) Strategic Framework
Government Record · 2016
World Bank Group
The World Bank's plan for national ID systems, launched in 2014. It lists the risks itself: privacy, surveillance, function creep, exclusion and cybersecurity.
- Written Testimony of Arturo Bejar
Transcript · 2023
Arturo Bejar
Bejar reported that 13% of Instagram users aged 13–15 self-reported unwanted sexual advances in the preceding seven days and said he communicated safety concerns directly to…
- Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report: 2011–2021
Government Record · 2023
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Persistent sadness/hopelessness rose from 28% in 2011 to 42% in 2021; seriously considering suicide rose from 16% to 22%, making a plan from 13% to 18%,…
- Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report: 2023
Government Record · 2024
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC reported 16% electronic bullying in 2023 using a previous-12-month question. This is narrower than Pew’s six-behavior lifetime/personal-experience measure.
- Yuval Noah Harari: Davos Speech (WEF, 2020)
Document · 2020
Yuval Noah Harari / World Economic Forum
At Davos in 2020, Harari said corporations and governments will soon be able to systematically hack all the people, and that humans should get used to…