Why Feminists Must Defend Encryption
The debate over encryption is often reduced to a false choice between online safety and privacy, but the reality is far more complex.| Internet Exchange
Whistleblower testimony reveals how corporate pressure can twist research and undermined its integrity.| Internet Exchange
The debate over encryption is often reduced to a false choice between online safety and privacy, but the reality is far more complex.| Internet Exchange
Feminist perspectives on digital justice and tech| Internet Exchange
Billed as a “world-leading” child-protection law, the UK’s Online Safety Act has instead normalized surveillance and ID checks. “Tech policy wonk" Heather Burns writes that the model is spreading across the Atlantic, where politicians see a ready-made tool for censorship and control.| Internet Exchange
Encryption protects fundamental rights, and it must be preserved as governments expand their cybersecurity and investigatory powers.| Internet Exchange
Eight years ago, Europe declared digital sovereignty a priority, but is it now out of reach?| Internet Exchange
Exploring how practitioners define public interest technology, and what it takes to sustain and grow the field.| Internet Exchange
Internet apps often use IP addresses to estimate user location. This post covers standards work to improve IP address privacy, their geolocation approach, and whether routing protocols should reveal location data.| Internet Exchange
Also known as Terms of Service, Terms of Use, User Agreements or Service Agreements, it is true that most are a case of clicked-accept-but-didn’t-read but they may matter more now than ever.| Internet Exchange
Submitted as part of the WSIS+20 review process, which marks twenty years since the original World Summit on the Information Society.| Internet Exchange
Big Tech companies have redefined terms like “openness” and “free expression” to support business models built on centralization and data monetization.| Internet Exchange
New UK rules require “highly effective” age checks for adult content online, but the proposed methods risk undermining privacy, excluding vulnerable users, and expanding surveillance infrastructure.| Internet Exchange
One Simple Test to Try Before Regulating the Internet.| Internet Exchange
Google’s reversal on third-party cookies underscores how, when privacy and profit collide, the needs of advertisers continue to shape the web’s most widely used browser.| Internet Exchange
The UK, a global hub for both AI and the arts, struggles to balance tech innovation and protecting a creative sector increasingly threatened by AI trained on copyrighted works.| Internet Exchange
This month, the Social Web Foundation is joining the UN’s 20th annual conference on the internet.| Internet Exchange
This week, in our main story: we examine how robots.txt, a decades-old web protocol, has become central to discussions about consent, copyright, and web scraping to power new generative AI tools. But first... We Must Back the Tools that Beat Censorship A few weeks ago, the Trump administration moved| Internet Exchange
