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

Yerevan Dialogue 2024 Last week I was in Yerevan for a high-level, geopolitics event. I was asked to comment on emerging AI markets. I was joined by the Armenian Minister of High-Tech and a host of other impressive speakers. We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will

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

The Arrest Of Telegram’s Pavel Durov: What’s Encryption Got To Do With It? For Tech Policy Press Last weekend, Pavel Durov, the cofounder and CEO of Telegram, found himself detained after his private jet landed in France from Azerbaijan. Durov, who holds multiple passports but is originally of

The Global Digital Compact negotiations continue in New York. The document is in Revision 3. Today marked another round of stakeholder consultations. Here's what folks are saying: * Ahead of the Revision 3 public release, APC led civil society in a briefing document about the ways in which the

Guest essay from Esra'a Al Shafei on a new project Surveillance Watch We know that surveillance technology and spyware are consistently being used to target and suppress journalists, dissidents, and human rights advocates everywhere. So today, we are pleased to announce the launch of Surveillance Watch, an interactive