Big Tech companies have redefined terms like “openness” and “free expression” to support business models built on centralization and data monetization.

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.

One Simple Test to Try Before Regulating the Internet.

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.

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.

This month, the Social Web Foundation is joining the UN’s 20th annual conference on the internet.

AI is reshaping how courts make decisions, but without transparency and accountability, these tools risk amplifying bias, eroding civil rights, and undermining public trust in the justice system. This is a summary of Mallory Knodel’s keynote at the Michigan Judges Conference.

The images we use to depict AI, from robots, to blue brains and cascading code, are more than just clichés. They shape public understanding, feed myths and undermine meaningful engagement. Better Images of AI is working to change that.

A few weeks ago in the IX community, we were talking about the tech workforce, particularly in light of recent mass layoffs and protests over Big Tech’s role in supporting Israel’s occupation of Gaza. There was a time when employees at the world’s most powerful tech companies