DPI and the Homeless Workers Movement in Brazil
Concrete possibilities for broader governance and popular participation.
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India's actually existing DPIs as architectures of hegemony
Mila T. Samdub argues India's digital public infrastructure binds banks, tech firms, and the state into a ruling coalition.
Does Anybody Care About Data Breaches?
Data breaches are now a routine part of life, but people affected still have almost no way to get a remedy. Lucy Purdon asks what real consequences for companies could look like.
What's At Stake at ITU PP-26
A guide for civil society groups that want to shape the ITU’s next four years of work.
What It Means to Lose Autistici/Inventati
A terrorism designation is forcing Autistici/Inventati to shut down, taking its blogging platform NoBlogs offline with it.
Building Online Communities We Can Keep
What a workshop on digital spaces taught RABT about participation, access, and collective control.
‘Protest like nobody is watching!’
Why the ‘Pervert Glasses’ are rightly reviled.
Should ChatGPT Read Your Encrypted Messages?
OpenAI’s new iMessage plugin for ChatGPT lets users search their messages and draft and send replies through the chatbot on their desktop. But should they?
The Web Needs a Context Layer Built on a Shared Protocol
Making context a shared protocol, rather than a platform feature, would let readers see competing perspectives anywhere on the web, argue Mallory Knodel, Evan Friedman, and Brad Friedman.
Protocols: Power Hides in Boring Places
The fights over AI scraping and encrypted browsing are being settled in obscure standards bodies, and advocates need to be in the room, Mallory Knodel argues.
Let's Talk About the Tech Decisions Parents Face Every Day
It is unreasonable how much time and labor we expect parents expend, on their own, to understand all of the implications of how technology continues to evolve.
What August 2 Means for Trust & Authenticity Online
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)'s Content Credentials can influence how new AI disclosure rules operate in the EU and California.
Making the Case for Actionable Prosocial Design Research
Regulating harmful design is only half the equation — attention must also go toward how platforms can build prosocial design, and toward the research that shows them how.
Why Ofcom Objects to TikTok's Age Assurance Methods
Ofcom's new investigation asks whether TikTok's inference-based age checks are "highly effective" enough. Audrey Hingle uses a new Internet-Draft on age verification architecture to show how every age assurance method trades efficacy against privacy, and where TikTok's choice sits on that curve