Privacy

Jordan Open Source Association's community hosted a streaming party for Coded Bias, a Netflix documentary directed by Shalini Kantayya. The documentary follows researchers and advocates as they explore and explain the bias that gets encoded by default depending on the data it feeds off, and then how that solidifies bias in real life consequently. The documentary also touches on ethical issues in different domains, in Big Tech and the options they present the users given the massive data they collect about each person. In governance and how biometric surveillance is the norm in China and is making its way into Western countries. In the job market where computer-based evaluation might falsely mess with the livelihood of people.

The documentary was streamed through Netflix teleparty feature while JOSA community members joined a voice channel on JOSA's discord server. A very engaging discussion about the movie ensued afterwards, expanding on general AI ethics and how we needed a regulatory entity for AI implementation in Jordan according to sound principles, in addition to other related ethical and legal topics as the conversation streamed.

Be sure to join the JOSA community to catch the next streaming party.

A data protection and privacy webinar was given by Jordan Open Source Association (JOSA)'s and hosted by King's Academy. The webinar was given to around 60 attendees including students, parents and faculty members. The webinar aimed to raise awareness about which data gets collected by different apps and websites, and how the private data might be passed to third parties without the knowledge nor the agreement of the users.
Raya Sharbain, JOSA's program coordinator, led the webinar and gave a talk on the importance and the methods of proper legal data collection, protection and storage, the possible consequences of the failure to do so, the results of data breaches and the invasion of personal data by big tech companies. Sharbain also touched upon end-to-end encryption and how it augments privacy.