Venezuela: Tech companies set dangerous precedent with app for reporting anti-government protesters

By Amnesty International

Responding to reports of the Venezuelan government-backed app, being updated to allow users to report people voicing dissent towards the current government in the immediate aftermath of the disputed re-election of President Nicolas Maduro, Matt Mahmoudi, Head of Amnesty International’s Silicon Valley Initiative, said: “The fact that technology developers revised the app to add this […] The post Venezuela: Tech companies set dangerous precedent with app for reporting anti-government protesters appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>

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