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Part II: Five more ways the internet has made human rights worse (the first five) : 6. Shrinking civic space The internet has eroded offline civic space, introducing several challenges and negative impacts on the right to protest. Amnesty International reports, “Protesters across the globe are facing a potent mix of

The internet has facilitated a new era of challenges and threats to human rights. While it has enabled e-commerce, it has exacerbated inequality. While it has democratized freedom of expression, it has given a megaphone to hate speech. While it has lowered barriers to access information, it has proliferated

Tomorrow: Make plans to attend "Power to the People: The Encryption Summit". The Global Encryption Coalition and Tech Policy Press are hosting a series of panels on encryption, privacy, security. Saturday 21 Oct is Global Encryption Day. Last weekend: While digital security experts were asking one another about

This week in Tech Policy Press is a statement I wrote with colleagues from the steering committee of the Global Encryption Coalition about why it is a spectacularly bad idea to trust the Five Eyes countries– UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand– with expanded surveillance powers over end-to-