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Mallory Knodel

Mallory Knodel

Brazil vs. X and France vs. Telegram... vs. users

Pavel Durov is not the world’s most sympathetic detainee. He is a billionaire tech founder whose messaging app, Telegram, has been a safe harbor for school shooters and neo-Nazis. Under his direction, Telegram has operated like a free-for-all, allowing all manner of content to flow through its servers– all

The Social Web Foundation

(An announcement follows) But first, TPRC 2024 Last week I participated in the 2024 edition of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference in Washington DC. TPRC is the Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy. I was grateful to participate in a graduate student workshop where I was able to

When governments and platforms fight

Portugal! Next week I'll be heading to the Global Gathering (nee Internet Freedom Festival nee Circumvention Tech Fest) to commune with friends and colleagues who build digital tools, provide training and support to activists, human rights defenders, journalists and at risk communities. The agenda is lined with deeply

Our Bodies|Data|Dissent

During the upcoming 79th session of the UN General Assembly I'll be speaking with colleagues at the Just Futures Collaborative about gender, sexuality, identity, activism and dissent– and their criminalization is enhanced and expanded in a digitalized world. Join us: Our Bodies, Our DissentThis event aims to foster

Green Hat

Announcing the Green Tech Hackathon: From 10-11 December in Amsterdam https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/announcing-the-green-tech-hackathon/ We are looking for enthusiastic and critical thinkers in Green Tech. If you are a hacker, software developer, climate expert, network engineer, student, researcher, data scientist, designer, economist, sys-admin, philosopher, gardener, academic, or

New adventures; On Telegram

After an amazing journey as CTO at the Center for Democracy and Technology, I'm excited to share that I'm moving on to new adventures! I'm a founding director of the soon-to-be-launched Social Web Foundation along with Evan Prodromou and Tom Coates. Watch this space.

GDC and the technical community

Read my latest for the CDT blog on Human Rights in the I-Stars, my presentation to the crowd at Hackers on Planet Earth: How “I-Star” Organizations Shape Free Speech and Human RightsEarlier in July 2024, CDT Chief Technology Officer Mallory Knodel delivered a comprehensive overview of the state of human

Surveillance Watch

Quick update: The Cybercrime Treaty was adopted without a vote last week at the United Nations in New York. It will move to ratification, operationalisation and extension through the UN General Assembly agenda setting sessions in September-October. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/0724--un-cybercrime/ The links you've been waiting

Cybercrime Treaty

'All Eyes' are on the UN this week as the Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime goes into its final negotiations. Below the jump I've published my latest essay on this particular Russia-led "cyber-" effort and why the global, UN effort to replace the Budapest

Digital Emblems; Final GDC negotiations

This week the Internet Engineering Task Force held its 120th meeting in Vancouver. You can view sessions online: * Internet governance and governance in the internet at the Human Rights Protocol Considerations session: https://youtu.be/MpAI4izqEEg * Talk on Community-led Solutions in Connecting Indigenous Communities at the IAB Open: https://youtu.