Audrey Hingle

Exploring how practitioners define public interest technology, and what it takes to sustain and grow the field.

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.

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.

Submitted as part of the WSIS+20 review process, which marks twenty years since the original World Summit on the Information Society.

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.