ACCO Co-founder Katie Paul will present at SXSW’s Fact v. Fiction: Fighting Election Disinformation, which will examine the exponential growth of disinformation, its effects from the 2020 election and how experts are working to combat it.
This workshop and its associated community tool are aimed at supporting civil society in responding to the ethical dilemma: how should they balance the ethical imperatives to respond to wildlife crime without contravening user privacy, accepted norms related to mass data collection or a platform's terms of service?
Teens across the country are being poisoned by deadly pills bought on Snapchat. ACCO experts are bringing awareness to this issue by hosting their second protest against Snapchat at “Rally to Save Our Youth”. The event will be held at 12pm PT at Clover Park in Santa Monica and ends at Snap Headquarters.
In this webinar, Daniel Stiles and Brooke Aldrich discuss the role of social media in primate trafficking, and look at the astonishing findings from a new report detailing the vast scope of animal cruelty online. They'll also outline ways to fight back and protect these animals.
Tune in on Wednesday, October 13 at 12:00 p.m. when Gretchen Peters, Executive Director of The Alliance to Counter Crime Online who will speak about her organization’s work on the way organized crime has weaponized social media. In-person attendance is on a first come first serve basis. You must register in advance to attend.
On 14 September, UNESCO will organize in partnership with the European Union, an online debate entitled “The fight against illicit trafficking in cultural property: for a strengthened global dialogue” (12 - 6 pm CET). The event aims to bring together all actors in the fight against illicit trafficking in cultural property to discuss collaborative ways to strengthen the fight against the illegal trade in cultural property at the global level and identify concrete actions to be implemented.
The Art, Feathers & Crime project, based at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, in collaboration with the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, is excited to announce a forthcoming virtual conference that will cover the ethics and intricacies of conducting online research into illicit trade of cultural and natural resources, including the trafficking and illegal trade of wildlife, art and antiquities, jewelery, precious stones and minerals, timber, fossils, flora and fauna, etc.
National Whistleblower Day is an annual celebration commemorating the contributions of whistleblowers around the world who have bravely stepped forward to expose waste, fraud and abuse. This year’s celebration is an all-day virtual event featuring a wide range of speeches from whistleblowers, policy-makers, and advocates, as well as a series of panels on pressing whistleblower issues.
The Alliance to Counter Crime Online is teaming up with the journals American Prospect and American Affairs to host a bipartisan series of free, virtual panels on June 17, 22, 24 & 29 at 3:00 p.m. ET. The four panels will examine flaws in today’s application of Section 230 and consider suggestions for fixing the provision. The panels will feature discussions with policy and technology experts, as well as individuals who have been impacted by platforms’ failure to curb unlawful activity on their services. Each panel will close with a Q-&-A session.
In the second ADSS Work-in-Progress seminar, ACCO expert Dr Damien Huffer will present an overview of his ongoing, interdisciplinary research into the online human remains trade. The seminar will then move to Q&A and general discussion.
Learn Detective Skills: How Investigators Track Crime Online Summer Camp
In this 2-week summer camp, students will learn about how investigators track and report various forms of online crime such as the illegal wildlife and archeological trades.
Join the Alexander Neville Foundation and APALD as we rally to save our youth. The goal is to being awareness to the fentanyl epidemic and how easy it is for drug dealers to prey on our children via Snapchat and other social media platforms.
This side event focuses on the links between corruption, environmental crimes, and the implementation of UNCAC Resolution 8/12. Corruption enables and facilitates a variety of crimes that are damaging to society and the economy, and undermine the rule of law and sustainable development. The criminal networks responsible for or benefiting from environmental crime use and rely on corruption for their business at every step of their supply chain, making it crucial that corruption is addressed. To illustrate the need to address corruption as a key enabler of environmental crime, experts will discuss how corruption systematically manifests itself across three environmental crimes - wildlife trafficking, illegal logging, illegal mining - and look at some of the tools available to combat it.
Celebrate World Environment Day with Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism & the Earth Journalism Network - and join us for a discussion on how journalists and newsrooms in Asia are using data to investigate wildlife trafficking.
The draft Digital Services Act (DSA), published by the EU Commission in December 2020, seeks to build a safer and better Internet for all EU citizens. Unfortunately, despite introducing some promising new elements like transparency and auditing requirements, the draft potentially falls short of its main objective.
At this online event, we will examine in depth the positive and negative aspects of the draft DSA. The discussion will focus on the question if this legislation will be capable of protecting EU citizens better from online harms.
On Thursday, May 27th at 2:30pm ET, join Freedom from Facebook and Google and ACCO to hear from Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Mondaire Jones put pressure on the Biden Administration and Congress to break up Facebook and Google.
On May 11th, at 8AM ET, ACCO Executive Director Gretchen Peters and ACCO expert Tim K Mackey will be appearing on the Today Show with Kate Snow to talk about how organized crime has weaponized social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, and how ACCO is fighting the problem. Watch it here!
