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For the 2024 Raisina Files, a companion publication to the yearly Dialogue, I wrote about children's rights and encryption. The entire publication is available for download online, and this is a reprint of my article: Children's Rights at the Centre of Digital Technology Standards by Design

With fellow security experts, I published a letter to the UK Home Secretary about the Investigatory Powers Amendment Bill. The letter was also covered by Computer Weekly. We, the undersigned, write to express our concerns over the proposed changes to the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) notices regime. We

This week's newsletter catches you up on the last three months in internet standards. Analysis Broken down by forum, below is a deeper dive into the top items that touch on public interest issues. We include a non-exhaustive list of what’s being discussed and what’s considered

Over tapas I caught up with Evan Prodromo, author of Activity Pub, an open standard for publishing and interacting with social media posts. The conversation was a bit like social media consumption– through the lunchtime noise we distilled an essential conversation about life, work and the management of it all.

My first guest post is from Robin Berjon! (On: What are we doing about cookie banners?) Emerging as a response to the increasing concerns over personal data protection, the Global Privacy Control (GPC) provides a simple yet effective way for users to communicate their privacy preferences to websites and online

Long ago I was part of an effort by democratic states, companies and civil society to recognize the criticality to “move beyond the dominant rights versus cybersecurity paradigm, by recognising that individual security is a core component of cybersecurity and that a secure Internet is central to promoting human rights.

The literature on “internet fragmentation” extends more than a decade prior to describe everything from app localization to shutdowns. Its overuse is far too capacious, which has obfuscated real issues only some of which lead to harmful effects on users because of network isolation. We’ve lost the ability to