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Audrey Hingle

Audrey Hingle

The UK Online Safety Act: Ofcom’s Age Checks Raise Concerns

The UK Online Safety Act: Ofcom’s Age Checks Raise Concerns

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.

If It Breaks Wikipedia, It’s Probably Bad Policy

If It Breaks Wikipedia, It’s Probably Bad Policy

One Simple Test to Try Before Regulating the Internet.

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Google Walks Back Cookie Privacy Protections

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.

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The UK Struggles to Balance AI Innovation and Creative Protection

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.

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The Future of Interoperability is Private @ IGF 2025

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

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Rethinking Robots: Why Visual Representation of AI Matters

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.

Who Is Organizing the Tech Workforce?

Who Is Organizing the Tech Workforce?

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