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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

End-to-end encryption (e2ee) has come a long way in the last decade and is now in the hands of billions. But that is largely due to encrypted messaging, not encrypted email. In general, messaging has improved upon email with respect to usability, speed, discovery and security to the

The US has an opportunity to re-calibrate its positions in international trade negotiations to preserve and promote regulatory spaces in the interest of consumers and people. One step to achieve public interest outcomes in digital trade is through more open and multistakeholder engagement in negotiations.  From 25 October 2023