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Supporting Internet Privacy from the Ground Up – Read on the CDT blog Sometimes even simple online actions can have serious consequences. A link in your email could be malware. Your cellphone plan provider might be tracking all of the websites that you visit. And in some countries, it might not

Quad9 Announces Advisory Council to Consider Human Rights Impacts (read on Quad9.net) On Sunday, April the 28th, the eve of the NetMundial+10 convergence in Sao Paulo, the recursive DNS resolver Quad9 launched an advisory council to tackle questions of human rights impacts, especially on privacy and equity for

This week I read a statement to the UN, from the Global Encryption Coalition to improve the protections for privacy and security in the Secretary General's Global Digital Compact: Dear Co-Facilitators, Thank you for drafting and holding open consultations on the zero draft of the Global Digital

UN Report Calls for New Era for Digital Governance in which Tech Standards Respect Human Rights Published on the IETF's blog. You can view the original here: https://www.ietf.org/blog/un-report-calls-for-new-era-for-digital-governance In a major milestone in the movement

Backdoors 🤝 Spyware: Or, what you get with broken encryption and government hacking (hint: it’s genocide) Encryption backdoors and government hacking often emerge as competing solutions. Human rights groups tend to point out that this is a false dichotomy because while olicy makers present them as tradeoffs, they are in

This week's newsletter catches you up on the last three months in internet standards. The Star Monitor is a cooperative effort between Global Partners Digital and the Center for Democracy and Technology. Its aim is to help civil society organisations track discussions at internet standards bodies on a

This week's essay is a guest post from Tara Tarakiyee with their chef's kiss title: SconePro with Network Jam and Clotted Streams Last week I attended the IETF119 meeting in Brisbane (remotely), and I attended a meeting for a newly proposed working group called SCONEPRO where