Quick update: The Cybercrime Treaty was adopted without a vote last week at the United Nations in New York. It will move to ratification, operationalisation and extension through the UN General Assembly agenda setting sessions in September-October. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/0724--un-cybercrime/ The links you've been waiting

'All Eyes' are on the UN this week as the Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime goes into its final negotiations. Below the jump I've published my latest essay on this particular Russia-led "cyber-" effort and why the global, UN effort to replace the Budapest

This week the Internet Engineering Task Force held its 120th meeting in Vancouver. You can view sessions online: * Internet governance and governance in the internet at the Human Rights Protocol Considerations session: https://youtu.be/MpAI4izqEEg * Talk on Community-led Solutions in Connecting Indigenous Communities at the IAB Open: https://youtu.

The HOPE talk (starts at 3:34:10). You didn’t miss anything, dear readers, because you’ve heard it all in this very newsletter. Instead please spend considerable time reading and clicking on all of the links in this recounting of the Take Back Tech conference earlier this month

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

Last week, states in New York reviewed the latest draft of the UN Global Digital Compact. The GDC is an initiative of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to establish shared principles and state responsibilities for the internet and AI. It's expected to be adopted at the UN Summit of

In just a couple of weeks I'll be at Hackers on Planet Earth delivering an in-person version of this newsletter. At HOPE I'll give an update on several I-star organizations, namely ICANN, IETF, IEEE, W3C, and ITU. The tensions and synergies of human rights considerations in

It's been a big week for encryption. * Signal's statement against "upload moderation" in EU chat control debate https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf * You love to see the headline, "Draft law to detect online child sexual abuse material stalled again" https:

This week, ICANN 80 met in Kigali and here's what you might have missed. The Governmental Advisory Committee constitutes the voice of governments and intergovernmental organizations and hosted a High-Level Governance Meeting. The HLGM covered cybersecurity and meaningful connectivity and was invite-only but published its session recordings. https:

The US Trade Representative Katherine Tai spoke at the Atlantic Council earlier this week. I was a keen audience member because Tai has recently walked back lines drawn by the US in the WTO's e-commerce negotiations, which I've written about previously. A core quote from her