Shaping AI: How data redefines the obligations and responsibilities to our future
Mallory Knodel examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping governance, arguing that while AI promises efficiency, it often deepens societal inequalities.
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AI, Power and Governance
This week, in our main story, Internet Exchange's Mallory Knodel examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping governance, arguing that while AI promises efficiency, it often deepens societal inequalities. She explores the risks of AI reinforcing the power of the privileged, while diminishing civil liberties for others, and calls
Old Protocol, New Problems: Robots.txt
This week, in our main story: we examine how robots.txt, a decades-old web protocol, has become central to discussions about consent, copyright, and web scraping to power new generative AI tools.
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We Must Back the Tools that Beat Censorship
A few weeks ago, the Trump administration moved
Spyware Is Getting Smarter, But So Are the Researchers Who Hunt It
In our main story today, Divyank Katira, Anunay Kulshrestha and Gurshabad Grover explore how researchers are developing smarter ways to detect and analyse spyware targeting civil society.
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The Real World: Sofia — Where Cryptographers Stop Being Polite and Start Getting Real
Our very own Mallory Knodel is taking the
GSMA Embraces E2EE Standards
GSMA’s latest update to RCS adopts a clear, research-backed definition of end-to-end encryption, developed by Internet Exchange’s Mallory Knodel, Sofía Celi (Brave), Olaf Kolkman (Internet Society), and Gurshabad Grover. This update paves the way for secure, cross-platform messaging.
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IETF 119 and the HRPC This Week in
You Have Data Rights: So Why Are They So Hard To Exercise?
In our main article today, Public Interest Technologist and Senior Product Manager for Permission Slip at Consumer Reports, Sukhi Gulati-Gilbert, breaks down why data rights are so hard to use, how companies make opting out a nightmare, and what privacy tools can do to help consumers take back control.
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AI Has Entered the Encrypted Chat
In our main article today, Mallory and Cornell University PhD student Andrés Fábrega break down how AI bots are creeping into encrypted chats, and what that means for privacy. But first...
ICANN82
The Oscars may be over, but the red carpets are rolling out for ICANN82 next week in Seattle.