How companies can make the internet a safer place | Farah Lalani | TEDxGVAGrad

With so much of our lives spent online, the internet is a repository for experiences ranging from joyous, to mildly uncomfortable, to deeply harmful. Dangers lurking online are growing in number, and their impact can have devastating effects offline as well. Farah Lalani invites us to examine innovative approaches to online safety and discuss the importance of proactive measures, incentivizing responsible product development, and establishing consistent measurement frameworks.
Farah Lalani has spent over a decade working with clients in the media and tech sector. Currently, she is leading Global Policy for Teleperformance’s Trust & Safety business. She previously initiated and led the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety, working with regulators, business leaders, civil society experts, and academics to drive public-private cooperation on internet safety. Prior to the Forum, Farah consulted for a number of technology companies during her 8 years at Accenture Strategy. Outside of work, she volunteers her time as a Mentor through All Tech is Human, contributes to the work of the Trust & Safety Professional Association, and dedicates time to projects for the Aga Khan Development Network. She currently lives in Zurich, Switzerland and is originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@cjplay2]

Much of what she is advocating for is very necessary, but I wanted to comment on one specific feature. The Image hashing mechanism she metioned would have to be very sophisticated and/or reversible (aka able to recreate the image). Why? Hashes like those used for checksums are "exact matches". This means the image must be unscaled or uncropped or unaltered. So how to modify this? Multi- or partial-hashing the image, which are irreversible, would be an excellent start. While the single hash will likely fix the original file from getting online, only other forms of hashing, or vectorized matching of the core/shrunken image via detail mapping using ML techniques will truly help for at least 2 decades or more. And that's the other problem. How long till the tech is beaten? All DRM is broken in a major way. So what's next for content locking?

[@JCOwens-zq6fd]

There is no such thing. If you give companies &/or the Gov't that power they WILL misuse it.

[@Erica-cf1xb]

Already are. They do not care about another person's life. If you are not apart of their opp mission to kill, steal, or destroy...they will smear u out and get people around you . Even a city to lie. Calling for help from another person...USELESS. Most people in your life don't care if you live or die. But God does. Do what you can and let Him take care of ALL the enemies. It's more of them that sold their soul than you will ever know.

[@cartergomez5390]

Yeah, the internet could be so useful for business people.

[@oldhollywoodbriar]

Exactly, as we have already seen. We need to take power away from people who have gone to college and rebuild our society, which they have destroyed.

[@Karl-k3j]

Brilliant talk on a crucial subject. Thanks for your work in this space & for shedding light on such an important topic that affects all of us, especially the most vulnerable.

[@golDroger88]

Let me guess, it involves censorship and control and an aversity towards anonymity.

[@realfnneato3111]

Oh no things exist we can't control???

[@danw1089]

We don’t need any more “control”

[@narrativegatherer3128]

War is Peace 🕊️ Ignorance is Bliss ✌️ Control is Freedom 🗿

[@jbird4478]

Most of those figures that have risen, are from 2020 to 2021. It's almost as if something happened in that year that caused people to spend way too much time online.

[@johnathanfaircloth9639]

Who determines what is 'harmful content' or 'hate speech'? There is a difference between hate speech and speech that you hate.

[@angadbagla]

Very true, people get offended over simple words and are willing to destroy the other person's entire livelihood over things said in light spirit or comedic relief in order to feel a semblance of a power rush. 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words shall never touch me' is a sentence that should be given more significance.

[@feedbackzaloop]

Look up a dictionary, duh. But you got a point though, many people get offended by things not intended to harm.

[@angadbagla]

@@feedbackzaloop it also happens a lot online since there is no personal touch while writing a message or a comment much like this one. Its hard to convey tone and intent and often times people understand it incorrectly which does not bode well.

[@feedbackzaloop]

@@angadbagla yes, misunderstandings happen, and happened in written offline or personal communication too. Most of classic literature and some historical events are based on that. But misundersanding is _a_ _bit_ different thing to deliberate self-victimization.

[@angadbagla]

@@feedbackzaloop agreed

[@queenofzee]

Grammarly - how many times do you have "like" in your commercials?

[@abominabelle]

That it is internet and not the street is safe enough!! Internet is and should be free place to exchange every existing and possible idea and concept, to expose oneself to most radical, extreme and most opposite to ones personality and life experiences ideas and concepts. Any censure or any sort of manipulation should be punished severely and utterly.

[@narrativegatherer3128]

But that's not how Social Media algorithms work. They mostly show you content about ideologies that you already agree with rather than the new ones. They end up creating echo chambers that we shouldn't require as per your argument.

[@yusufayyildiz8993]

I wish Turkish subtitle

[@Always.Smarter]

Safe from what? If it's causing you problems, then log off. You can't trust a company to protect you from it's own product, and you can't trust other people to have your own best interest at heart. At the end of the day, what you do on social media is your responsibility, not everyone else's. You wouldn't expect to drink a gallon of alcohol without consequence, just as you shouldn't expect to spend time on social media without consequence.

[@narrativegatherer3128]

Actually you can in a democracy. Everybody wanna be King. So if the current one misbehaves, start supporting the next big candidate. The old one wouldn't like this and will provide leeway for your demands. If doesn't though then the new candidate will with people's support. World's strongest businessmen have been unlived at midnight in many countries. A fitting fate for those who oppose the people's revolution.

[@FreelancerParvez-qe9mx]

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[@jason666king]

Anything non-trans or non-queer should be BANNED as hate speech. There, problem solved.

[@AldersonForOne]

I’m sorry about all the annoying comments on this video Farah. I liked your talk and I agree. Take care 🙂

[@bukurie6861]

Thank you❤

[@feedbackzaloop]

"Global Vice President, Trust and Safety Policy" - incredible how corporations love to breed piggybackers and suckerfishes!

[@JD-bk4zi]

Good little tool of Corporate overlords

[@mkg304]

TED is so boring anymore

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[@Joshuaaragon268]

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[@JohnMcCain-qw4zl]

Oh please, how can someone get in touch with Mrs Olivia!!?

[@Dyk949]

I will leave her number just below this comment

[@Dyk949]

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[@Dyk949]

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[@ssiddarth]

Good one 👍

[@CyborgElf]

6:20 This speakers is one sided and fails to see the benefit to anonymity and the threat of destroying anonymity creates. Applying ‘digital signatures’ and hashes onto web content destroys the foundation of an open and free exchange of information, potentially leading to reduced privacy and stifling online discourse. This speaker proposes: 1. “Financial incentives” (fines for not complying) for companies to track and manage data even more 2. Creation of an oversight board (government or private owned, both are scary) to determine what speech and content is deemed harmful (keep in mind the power this gives to kill political movements and views that are fresh and newly growing). Result; less digital rights and small marginalized group voices can be censored easily In addition, the speaker fails to mention the only companies that would adopt her proposed totalitarian policies are PRIVATE TECH COMPANIES. Harmful content will primarily exists on foreign web servers outside of western control.

[@sheikhadnan313]

The Tedx motivators are quite impressive😍👍🤩

[@brettreid5949]

How was this motivational?

[@brettreid5949]

External review boards, the not as on fire wording for fact checkers.

[@assycoco3253]

Àa

[@theobnoxiousgamer9624]

Hey look, a corporate plant.

[@kiavaxxaskew]

If companies misuse customer's information on their own servers, they shouldn't have anymore control than this.

[@chaywithlemon]

Teenagers voice from Instagram)

[@merrittbaee]

These days people come on tedx with useless content Rip tedx

[@Kirsahar]

If you know anything about history of internet, corporations or social media you won't agree with this lady...

[@esaua.7455]

Please take this video down.

[@Crouchy232323]

This is so true. My online avator was subjected to extreme harassment. I know it is not all men but the way they just grabbed me without consent leaves me with a real lack of trust.

[@brettreid5949]

Your AVATAR was groped......online......and it hurt your feelings and made you feel violated......We really are doomed as a society.

[@suga9470]

Social media is such an unfair place for mankind! Why does no one talk about it ? 😢

[@Erica-cf1xb]

Too scared of the invisible machine.

[@suga9470]

@@Erica-cf1xb what u mean

[@akilkhan_0]

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[@mblake0420]

Sorry lady, ITS CALLED FREEDOM FOR A REASON!

[@Daemon1995_]

"embarrassing', proceeds to show nothing embarrassing

[@JohnMackeyIII]

Maybe watch that movie… sound of freedom

[@Fatherthesnow]

Why does american young women always speak with this weird tone

[@canyoufeelzeschadenfreude2363]

HAHAHAHA