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| 10.09.2025 | Public Interest Registry Welcomes Applications for its Advisory Council | RESTON, Va., Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced today that it is accepting applications for its Advisory Council. The Advisory Council helps PIR in its mission to create more and stronger mission-driven ... |
| 12.08.2025 | Another Look At The STOP CSAM Act | Amidst the current batch of child safety bills in Congress, a familiar name appears: the STOP CSAM Act. It was previously introduced in 2023, when I wrote about the threat the bill posed to the availability of strong encryption and conseque... |
| 09.07.2025 | Litigious Company Demands Removal Of A Tweet Linking To An Article About How Litigious They Are | It’s not every day you watch a company faceplant so theatrically in public, but Cloud Innovation’s latest stunt deserves a slow clap. Cloud Innovation, which you’d probably never heard of unless you’re neck-deep in African IP registry battl... |
| 10.06.2025 | What Holds the Internet Together and Why It's Now at Risk | A new report from ICANN and the Internet Society details how the Internet Governance Forum has supported a stable and secure Internet—and why that model is now under strain.
PRAGUE, June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As global discussions intens... |
| 02.06.2025 | Governments Continue Losing Efforts To Gain Backdoor Access To Secure Communications | Reports that prominent American national security officials used a freely available encrypted messaging app, coupled with the rise of authoritarian policies around the world, have led to a surge in interest in encrypted apps like Signal and... |
| 15.05.2025 | Uganda: 'Raxio Data Centre Primed for All Uganda's Cloud Computing, Digital Needs' | The recent decision by International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, to back Raxio's record $100 million investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, is yet the strongest indicator of the key role data centres are expected... |
| 23.04.2025 | Call for Nominations: Seventh Annual .ORG Impact Awards to Recognize Global Changemakers | PIR increases age limit of "Rising Star" category from 25 to under 30
Winners eligible for prize donations up to $50,000 USD out of $180,000 USD total prize awards
RESTON, Va., April 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Public Interest Regist... |
| 14.04.2025 | Government’s privacy dispute with Apple ‘really strange’, expert says | The government’s position in its privacy and encryption row with Apple is “really strange” and “doesn’t make sense”, an expert has said.
Earlier this year, it was reported that the government had issued a notice under the Investigatory Powe... |
| 03.04.2025 | Ctrl-Alt-Speech: World Wide Wedge Issue | Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.
Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of cho... |
| 24.03.2025 | A Win For Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate | In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutted end-to-end encryption in the name of ... |
| 23.01.2025 | The TikTok Tug-of-War: A Digital Dilemma for America | TikTok stands at a crossroads. The popular video-sharing platform, a digital playground for millions, faces a potential ban in the United States. The clock is ticking. By January 19, TikTok must either sever ties with its Chinese parent com... |
| 20.01.2025 | Ethiopia Experiencing Remarkable Progress in Digital Transformation - Minister | Addis Ababa, — Ethiopia has been achieving impressive achievements in digital transformation, according to the Innovation and Technology.
A three-day Internet Development Conference (IDC) that aims to address connectivity challenges, enhanc... |
| 17.01.2025 | How much is TikTok worth and who could buy it? | The supremely popular TikTok could be banned on Jan 19 under a federal law that forces the video-sharing platform to divest itself from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or shut down its US operations.
Several parties have expresse... |
| 10.12.2024 | The Digital Tightrope: Navigating Speech in the Age of Regulation | The internet is a vast ocean. It offers freedom, connection, and expression. But with that freedom comes a tide of challenges. Content moderation and online speech regulation are hot topics today. They shape how we communicate and interact.... |
| 06.12.2024 | Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Comply & Demand | Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.
Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of cho... |
| 01.11.2024 | Mauritius orders ban on social media | Mauritius has banned social media leading up to elections this month
Mauritius’s communications regulator on Friday ordered all internet service providers to suspend access to social media platforms until 11 November, a day after the upcomi... |
| 09.10.2024 | Public Interest Registry Unveils Winners of 6th Annual .ORG Impact Awards at DC Ceremony Hosted by Emmy Winner Alan Cumming | Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation named 2024 .ORG of the Year, selected from over 1,700 applicants from more than 87 countries
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Public Interest Registry (PIR), the people behind the .ORG domain, announce... |
| 20.08.2024 | Internet Society Analyzes Technical and Security Considerations in 'Traceability' Clause in India's IT Rules 2021 | New Delhi, Delhi, India
As the Delhi High Court starts hearing the writ petitions filed against the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules 2021), the Internet Society (ISOC) has ... |
| 26.07.2024 | The FCC and Crypto: A Tale of Two Futures**
** | ** The political landscape is shifting. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the cryptocurrency sector are at a crossroads. Each faces a future shaped by new leadership and changing ideologies. As the 2024 election approaches, th... |
| 23.07.2024 | FCC’s Carr Wrote A ‘Project 2025’ Chapter On Ruining The FCC And Taxing Tech Giants, Which May Have Violated The Hatch Act | The leading candidate to head the FCC should Trump win re-election is facing calls for an investigation into Hatch Act violations after he helped co-author the controversial Project 2025.
Sixteen House Democrats have sent a letter to govern... |
| 19.07.2024 | Enhancing Cybersecurity Communication in Healthcare: Insights from Recent Breaches | The healthcare industry is facing a growing threat from cyber incidents, as evidenced by a staggering 93% increase in large breaches reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights between 2018 and 2022. Recent cyberattacks on major healthcare ... |
| 15.07.2024 | Вирусные рассылки и интернет от картеля: странные «услуги» корейских интернет-провайдеров и не только | Мы уже неоднократно разбирали, как развивается регулирование и отношение к правилам net neutrality в разных странах. Сегодня поговорим о том, как операторы связи (и не только) пытаются играть в шерифов и берут ситуацию на рынке в свои руки ... |
| 08.07.2024 | Big Telecom Eyes More Broadband Usage Caps (And A Tax On Big Tech) As Revenues Sag | Things aren’t too exciting if you’re a telecom executive right now.
All the hype in tech is singularly fixated on the more headline catching, stock fluffing, and usually very broken aspects of “AI.” 5G, hyped as a transformative world chang... |
| 01.07.2024 | South Korean ISP KT Caught Infecting Torrent Users With Malware | You might recall that “way back” in 2007 Comcast here in the U.S. was caught throttling BitTorrent uploads and subsequently lying about it. Since BitTorrent was popular, hoovering up network resources, and posed a threat to traditional cabl... |
| 10.06.2024 | Public Interest Registry Welcomes Applications for its Advisory Council | RESTON, Va., June 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Public Interest Registry (PIR) today announced that it is accepting applications for its Advisory Council. The Advisory Council helps PIR in its mission to create more and stronger mission-driven o... |
| 10.04.2024 | The Internet Society Foundation Announces More Than $4.5 Million in Funding to Support Research on the Future of the Internet | RESTON, Va., April 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Internet Society Foundation today announced the opening of its 2024 application cycle for the Research Grant Program. This program offers grants up to US$500,000 to support researchers around ... |
| 20.03.2024 | Several Subsea Cables in 10 African Countries are Badly Damaged and Need to be Repaired | Interoperability and mutual assistance in electricity and Internet among West African countries
Damage to submarine fiber optic cables will severely impact global industry financial settlement transactions
Existing Internet infrastructure i... |
| 12.03.2024 | Head Of Federal Prosecutors’ Association Latest To Ask For Broken Encryption | After hearing consecutive FBI directors (James Comey, Chris Wray) drone on and on about how device and communication encryption are nudging us ever closer to the criminal apocalypse, it’s kind of refreshing to hear from someone else equally... |
| 18.12.2023 | Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions | Natalie Tkachenko, Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX
To obtain test results today, there’s no need to visit the hospital. Simply open a mobile app and download the report to your smartphone. Doctors remotely manage patient dat... |
| 15.12.2023 | The federal government fails to provide Americans with reproductive health information they need. Here’s a better approach | Soon after the end of Roe v. Wade, President Biden issued an executive order attempting to ensure access to reproductive health care services nationally. One outcome of the executive order was the creation of a website, ReproductiveRights.g... |
| 06.12.2023 | Dumb, Telecom Industry Backed ‘Network Fees’ Drive Twitch Out Of Korea | Twitch has announced that the company is shutting down in Korea after regulators there imposed a ridiculous new regulatory framework that drove the company’s operational costs through the roof. |
| 17.07.2023 | Innovate And Regulate AI—It’s Not Either/Or | As AI expands, we need “and” thinking, not ”or” regarding regulations, meaning we must collaborate ... [+] to strike a balance between innovation and responsible regulation.getty |
| 25.06.2023 | Фрагментация Интернета: что это такое и почему вокруг нее столько споров. Часть 2 | Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Ольга Макарова, я директор Департамента коммерческого управления ресурсами ПАО «МТС». Это вторая часть серии публикаций о фрагментации интернета. Первую публикацию, вы можете найти по ссылке. В этом материале мы пог... |
| 01.05.2023 | The STOP CSAM Act Is An Anti-Encryption Stalking Horse | Recently, I wrote for Lawfare about Sen. Dick Durbin’s new STOP CSAM Act bill, S.1199. The bill text is available here. There are a lot of moving parts in this bill, which is 133 pages long. (Mike valiantly tries to cover them here.) I am f... |
| 14.04.2023 | TikTok ban could weaken personal cybersecurity | TikTok is not the first app to be scrutinised over the potential exposure of US user data but it is the first widely used app that the US government has proposed banning over privacy and security concerns.
So far, the discussion has focused... |
| 13.04.2023 | Tackling Software Supply Chain Security: A Toolbox for Policymakers | For software development platform provider CircleCI, this year began with a scramble to respond to a software supply chain compromise. CircleCI’s tens of thousands of customers use the continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform fo... |
| 23.11.2022 | EARN IT Act Will Make The Internet Worse For Everyone By Undermining Privacy And Security | To save the children, we must destroy everything. That’s the reality of the EARN IT Act. I mean, you can get some sort of sense of what you’re in store for just by reading the actual words behind the extremely labored acronym: Eliminating A... |
| 26.10.2022 | Why Embedding Content Matters | Imagine waking up in the morning, grabbing your hot cup of coffee, and scrolling your favorite blog post or website, only to find it looking like this: |
| 25.10.2022 | Hacker Group Hive Claims Ransomware Attack on Tata Power, Leaks Stolen Data | John Lopez, Tech Times 25 October 2022, 01:10 pm
Hive ransomware has claimed responsibility for the latest data breach on Tata Power, a leading Indian energy company, and has begun leaking stolen employee information. Tata Power Hackers Lea... |
| 07.10.2022 | China gains when democracies target press freedoms | This June, authorities in the Philippines ordered the boldly independent news website Rappler to shut down. In February 2021, a powerful Senegalese government minister won a defamation case against the daily Le Témoin. That same month in Ma... |
| 06.10.2022 | Telecom Experts Tell EU Leaders Their Plan To Tax ‘Big Tech’ On Behalf of ‘Big Telecom’ Is A Dumb Idea | Last year we noted how FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr had launched a bad faith effort suggesting that “big tech” gets a “free ride” on the internet, and should be forced to fund broadband expansion. This argument, that tech giants like Googl... |
| 01.09.2022 | In Defense of the Global, Open Internet | In the global race for internet governance, freedom is the West’s strategic advantage. And yet, a recent report from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) declares provocatively that “the era of the global internet is over.” The report’s e... |
| 24.08.2022 | Право на шифрование — как обстоят дела в мире | В прошлый раз мы обсуждали алгоритмы шифрования, которые подготовят вычислительные системы к квантовому будущему. Сегодня мы в T1 Cloud решили продолжить тему и поговорить о настоящем — дать контекст, в котором технологии шифрования обсужда... |
| 01.08.2022 | Что там со спросом и ценами на IPv4 | Скорость внедрения IPv6 постепенно увеличивается. Но процесс все равно идет медленно. Этот факт отражается на стоимости адресов IPv4. Рассмотрим, как меняется ситуация и какие меры предпринимает сообщество, чтобы стабилизировать цены.Фото: ... |
| 27.07.2022 | Internet Society Foundation Announces US$1.5 million in funding to promote Internet resiliency | RESTON, Va., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Internet Society Foundation has launched a second round of grants through its Resiliency program, which aims to help communities enhance preparedness and build Internet resiliency when faced wi... |
| 15.06.2022 | The Internet Society and Quad9 Partner to Deliver Advanced DNS Security to Cities at the Edge | WASHINGTON & ZÜRICH (PRWEB) June 15, 2022
The Internet Society (ISOC) and Quad9 today announced the completion of their first successful partnership for the expansion of DNS-based privacy and security services. ISOC is working with Quad... |
| 12.04.2022 | U.S. Eases Off Telecom Sanctions That Could Encourage A Russian Splinternet | As Russia has faced a flood of sanctions for its brutal invasion of Ukraine, many telecom companies, like Lumen and Cogent, also stopped feeding and financing key Internet transit routes into the country. Other companies, like domain regist... |
| 16.03.2022 | How the Cameroon Angel Network invests in startups | On a cool evening in the summer of 2016, a group of friends in Cameroon were having a nice time over a bottle of wine.
After a while the conversation drifted to the topic of investments and the opportunities that abound in the country. As t... |
| 15.03.2022 | Telecom Giant Lumen ‘Punishes’ Putin By Encouraging His Plan For A Censored Splinternet | Last week we noted how telecom backbone provider Cogent had decided to “punish Putin” for slaughtering Ukrainian civilians by severing the company’s transit routes to Russia. Cogent insisted that sanctions and an “uncertain security situati... |
| 02.03.2022 | Very, Very Bad Ideas: Ukraine Asks ICANN To Disconnect Russia From The Internet | Much of the world is, correctly, standing up against Russia following its despicable invasion of Ukraine as part of Vladimir Putin’s power-mad fever dream. And in response there are lots of questions about how different companies are lookin... |
| 01.03.2022 | How the U.K. and the Senate Judiciary Committee Are Being Dangerously Foolish About Cryptography | The story would be really funny—David Frost-biting-humor funny—if it weren’t true. Rolling Stone reported last month that the U.K. government hired M&C Saatchi Group, a U.K. advertising firm to bring to public attention “our concerns ab... |
| 17.01.2022 | UK government to launch astroturf campaign against end-to-end encryption | The UK government has hired a top advertising agency to persuade citizens that end-to-end encrypted (e2e) messaging services are dangerous, according to a report by Rolling Stone.
The publication submitted a FoI request about the rumoured a... |
| 11.01.2022 | UK Government Apparently Hoping It Can Regulate End-To-End Encryption Out Of Existence | Politicians -- those motivated by the notion of "doing something" -- want to end encryption. They don't want this to affect their communications and data security. But they don't see the harm in stripping these protections from th... |
| 11.01.2022 | UK Government Apparently Hoping It Can Regulate End-To-End Encryption Out Of Existence | Politicians — those motivated by the notion of “doing something” — want to end encryption. They don’t want this to affect their communications and data security. But they don’t see the harm in stripping these protections from the general pu... |
| 28.12.2021 | Quem inventou a internet? | Em uma época onde estávamos aprimorando a base da codificação e computação de Turing, tecnologias vencedoras na segunda grande guerra, não se imaginava a nova preparação para um cenário bélico, frio e nuclear. Veja abaixo, quem inventou a i... |
| 18.11.2021 | DNSSEC Validation — RuNET стал еще чуть более защищенным | Примерно в середине сентября 2021 года на сети Мегафон заработала DNSSec валидация. Такой вывод можно сделать из изменений в графике на ресурсе stats.labs.apnic.net.
На сети МТС DNSSec валидация была включена в начале апреля 2021. График мо... |
| 14.10.2021 | Сквозь тернии к IPv6 | В этом году тихо и незаметно прошёл десятилетний юбилей Международного дня IPv6. Данное событие носило скорее диагностический характер проверки готовности запуска и перехода на IPv6 в масштабах интернета. Через год состоялось более активное... |
| 28.09.2021 | Should Information Flows Be Controlled By The Internet Plumbers? | Content moderation is a can of worms. For Internet infrastructure intermediaries, it’s a can of worms that they are particularly poorly positioned to tackle. And yet Internet infrastructure elements are increasingly being called on to moder... |
| 23.09.2021 | How (Not) to Regulate the Internet: Lessons From the Indian Subcontinent | In February, the Indian government enacted the highly anticipated amendments to its intermediary liability regime. Titled the “Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021,” which we refer to as... |
| 06.08.2021 | MainOne’s new data centre could usher in exciting connectivity age in Ghana | Share this article:
In recent years, Africa has gradually become home to exciting innovations. Startups, raising capital in billions, are birthing disruptive models across sectors, and global tech giants are extending their tentacles to the... |
| 05.08.2021 | Apple explains how iPhones will scan photos for child-sexual-abuse images | Enlarge
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| 14.07.2021 | The Headache of 'Crypto Colonialism' | Ethiopia is suffering a humanitarian disaster. After months of armed conflict, roads and bridges across the Tigray province are in ruins. Electricity and telephone lines have been cut. Only 15% of Ethiopians have access to the internet at t... |
| 08.07.2021 | U.K.’s Online Safety Bill: Not That Safe, After All? | The U.K. government's long-awaited Online Safety Bill was published on May 12, and it follows a series of documents in the past few years that announced reforms in the area of online harms and the regulation of platforms. Its notable predec... |
| 08.07.2021 | IXPN crosses 70% traffic mark placing Nigeria among ‘developed internet ecosystem' | The Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) has crossed the 70% local traffic mark placing Nigeria among economies with the most developed internet ecosystem in Africa, according to a new report by the Internet Society.
There is an urgent... |
| 17.06.2021 | Internet Society signs new pact with Ethiopia to advance digital economy | Share this:
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| 16.06.2021 | Internet Society Announces Recipients of $1M in Grant Funding to Expand Internet Access to Underserved Communities in Alabama, Florida and North Carolina | The Internet Society today announced that five recipients will share $1 million in grant funding to expand broadband access in their communities as part of the Truist Expanding Potential in Communities (EPIC) Grant. The grant program suppor... |
| 07.06.2021 | The Week in Internet News: Yet Another Ransomware Attack | Where's the beef? Cybercriminals, likely from Russia, shut down a Brazilian meatpacker's operation for a couple of days using ransomware, Reuters reports. The attack on JBS, the world's largest meatpacker, came just weeks after ransomware, ... |
| 01.06.2021 | Are Partial Liability Rules The Path Forward For Intermediary Liability Regimes? Lessons Learned From Brazil | The past year saw the Internet become a lifeline during the COVID-19 pandemic. But 2020 also saw increased scrutiny of online content moderation, regulation of platforms and their effects on society. While recent headlines have focused heav... |
| 01.06.2021 | How Do Surveillance Laws Impact the Economy? | In 2018 the Australian parliament passed the 'TOLA' Act, expanding the government's powers to bypass digital data protections, and bringing with it the potential for significant harm to the economy and to trust in digital services and the I... |
| 20.05.2021 | G7 And Technical Standards: Blink And You Might Have Missed The New Battleground | Amid all the news about the third wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the politics behind the vaccination roll out, you might have missed the Ministerial Declaration from the G7 Digital and Technology Ministers? meeting. As per tradition, the... |
| 20.05.2021 | G7 And Technical Standards: Blink And You Might Have Missed The New Battleground | Amid all the news about the third wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the politics behind the vaccination roll out, you might have missed the Ministerial Declaration from the G7 Digital and Technology Ministers’ meeting. As per tradition, the... |
| 30.04.2021 | Cardano in Africa: Inside IOHK's Ethiopia Blockchain Deal | Ethiopia might be not the first place you think of as a hotspot for blockchain technology.
A predominantly rural country where only 15% of the population has access to the internet, Ethiopia is going through severe civil unrest in the north... |
| 24.02.2021 | Improving Account Security: We’re All In This Together | Ari Jacoby is the CEO and co-founder of Deduce, the leading provider of cybersecurity solutions powered by real-time customer identity data. |
| 02.02.2021 | How Data-Centric Security Can Protect Data Lakes And Safeguard Innovation | Co-CEO at Fluree, the scalable semantic graph database backed by blockchain technology. |
| 21.01.2021 | Top tech startup news for today, January 21, 2021: General Aeronautics, Cisco, Amazon, Tesla, Quantifind, and Parler | Good afternoon! Below is a list of the top tech startup news for today, the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century. Sorry, we missed yesterday’s top stories.
Former Cisco CEO John Chambers says his startups are leaving Silicon Valle... |
| 21.01.2021 | Internet Society Announces $1 Million in Grant Funding to Expand Internet Access to Underserved Communities in the Southeastern United States | Grant is in Partnership with Truist Cares COVID-19 Relief Efforts
The Internet Society announced a new grant program, Expanding Potential in Communities, or Truist EPIC Grant, to support broadband initiatives that help alleviate disparities... |
| 08.01.2021 | Leading Experts Weigh In On Growing Canada's Economy In 2021 | TORONTO, CANADA - 2017/10/07: Exhibition Place wide angle view. Beautiful colors of the dusk. The ... [+] iconic wind turbine can be seen in the distance. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)LightRocket via Getty Imag... |
| 14.12.2020 | The Rising Concern Around Consumer Data And Privacy | Building the future of marketing as the CEO & Co-Founder of Trufan Inc. |
| 11.08.2020 | Почему отключение интернета — катастрофа для Беларуси | Николай Чикишев 11 августа 2020, 08:32 Почему отключение интернета — катастрофа для Беларуси
Ограничения доступа к интернету растут во всем мире: чаще всего массовые отключения санкционированы правительствами. Во многих странах блокирование... |
| 05.05.2020 | Reston’s Internet Society Foundation launched this emergency grant program | Reston, Virginia-based Internet Society Foundation has launched an emergency grant program for organizations working on projects that “use the Internet to improve lives during or in response to an emergency.”
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| 20.04.2020 | Delivering Education Online: Coronavirus Underscores What’s Missing in Africa | With schools closed, learning continues through mass communication and internet-based resources. GettyImages
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| 20.04.2020 | Delivering Education Online: Coronavirus Underscores What’s Missing in Africa | With schools closed, learning continues through mass communication and internet-based resources. GettyImages |
| 23.01.2020 | Campaign Privacy Statements Open Voters to Data Sharing | This story is part of CoinDesk’s 2020 election series exploring questions of information integrity, the rights of digital citizens, the power of centralized platforms, and the future of money.
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| 14.01.2020 | How sub-Saharan Africa lost $2.16 billion to Internet censorship | Share this article:
Around the world, many nations adopt a more conscious stance where the rights to privacy and access to information are concerned. Mostly motivated by the power of the Internet to initiate unprecedented change over a shor... |
| 09.01.2020 | Over two dozen encryption experts call on India to rethink changes to its intermediary liability rules | Security and encryption experts from around the world are joining a number of organizations to call on India to reconsider its proposed amendments to local intermediary liability rules.
In an open letter to India’s IT Minister Ravi Shankar ... |
| 18.12.2019 | Internet Society Foundation’s $300,000 Grant to Promote Internet Projects in Africa & Europe | The Internet Society Foundation has issued a $300,000 grant to support 13 groundbreaking internet projects across Africa and Europe. The grant is for supporting the course of the internet and improve the quality of life globally.
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| 18.12.2019 | Internet Society Foundation Announces $300,000 in Grants for Projects that Promote the Benefits of the Internet | The new Internet Society Foundation has issued its first set of medium and large grants (ranging from $12,000 to USD $30,000 each) to 13 ground-breaking projects that seek to spread the benefits of the Internet around the world.
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| 20.11.2019 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Mistrusting Google | This Week in Mistrusting Google: Klon Kitchen points to a Wall Street Journal story about all the ways Google tweaks its search engine to yield results that look machine-made but aren’t. He and I agree that most of these tweaks have underst... |
| 18.11.2019 | Federal Court Approves First ‘Pirate’ Site Blockade in Canada | Last year, a coalition of copyright holders and major players in the telco industry asked the Canadian Government to institute a national pirate site blocking scheme.
The Fairplay coalition argued that such measures would be required to eff... |
| 05.11.2019 | A Thoughtful Response to Going Dark and the Child Pornography Issue | Last month the Department of Justice held a Lawful Access Summit focusing on the role of encryption in child pornography and exploitation. There’s no question that the internet makes it much easier to obtain child pornography than it once w... |
| 29.10.2019 | The Internet At 50: It Has Enabled Many Wonderful Things, But We Have To Fight To Keep It That Way | Today has been declared the 50th anniversary of the internet, as on October 29th, 1969, a team at UCLA, lead by Leonard Kleinrock, sent a message to a team at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), representing the very first transmission o... |
| 05.09.2019 | A project aims to help ISPs mind their routing security manners | reader comments 6 with 5 posters participating
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| 09.07.2019 | Cyber incidents cost $45 billion in 2018 | Cybercriminals are getting better at monetizing their activities, with more than two million cyber incidents in 2018 resulting in over $45 billion in losses, with actual numbers expected to be much higher as many cyber incidents are never r... |
| 25.06.2019 | A DIY Internet Network Has Drastically Expanded Its Coverage in NYC | A community-run operation named NYC Mesh is on a mission: to deliver better, cheaper broadband service to New York City. The locally-run nonprofit project says it’s engaging in a dramatic expansion that should soon deliver a new, more open ... |
| 08.06.2019 | BGP event sends European mobile traffic through China Telecom for 2 hours | Enlarge / A graphical depiction of Thursday's BGP leak.
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| 04.12.2018 | Avoiding A World War Web: The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace | On Nov. 11 at 11:00 a.m., more than 70 world leaders walked towards the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War and to honor the 19 million people who lost their lives in it. French President ... |
| 13.11.2018 | France leads effort to save internet from itself with ‘Paris Call’ and Facebook embed | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As the geopolitical picture continues to churn wi... |
| 13.11.2018 | France leads effort to save internet from itself with ‘Paris Call’ and Facebook embed | As the geopolitical picture continues to churn with uncertainty, France is making a strong and surprising bid to assume a central leadership role in fixing the hot mess otherwise known as the internet.
Following a weekend-long tribute marki... |
| 01.10.2018 | Internet Society partners Facebook to expand internet connectivity in Africa | The Internet Society, a global non-profit organization dedicated to the open development, evolution and use of the Internet, has announced that it is partnering with Facebook to develop Internet Exchange Points (IXP) throughout Africa.
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| 24.05.2018 | Navigating the risks of artificial intelligence and machine learning in low-income countries | Aubra Anthony Contributor
Aubra Anthony is the strategy and research lead for the Center for Digital Development within the US Agency for International Development.
On a recent work trip, I found myself in a swanky-but-still-hip office of a... |
