IETF 119 wraps up in Brisbane Check out the best of IETF 119 (on 1.5x speed, obviously): * IAB Open session featured a talk on why perceptual hashing in end-to-end encryption, eg client-side scanning, isn't good enough and never will be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDYF_

What you shouldn't miss whether you're online or in Brisbane for the upcoming IETF 119: * Check out the full meeting agenda, where you can usually download slides in advance as well as view draft minutes and video recordings shortly after sessions complete: https://datatracker.ietf.org/

This week I attended the Whistleblower Infrastructure Workshop that was hosted by the new Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard. It was a hybrid, one-day program to imagine new technology for supporting whistleblowers. There's certainly important and ongoing work to amplify for the public and potential whistleblowers alike,

The development of a Global Digital Compact (GDC) as part of the UN's Summit of the Future has the potential to shape the governance of digital technologies for years to come through a high-level expression of contributions by countries. This week there is a Stakeholders Informal Consultation in

This year's Raisina Dialogue has just ended in Delhi. I came to speak on a panel about "trends" and focussed my remarks on updates related to the Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime. Other sessions of note can be watched online: * Will Science Secure or Upend the

New report, “Finding the path to a more open internet. A new European approach toward internet standards” provides very timely suggestions for how the EU can resolve the tensions in its regulatory approach with open internet principles. Author Clément Perarnaud writes a terrific overview of the problem statement while also

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

The Council Working Group of the ITU is meeting this week in Geneva and I'm attending. As the discussions about the discussions for the 2024-25 internet governance cycle intensify, I'm happy to see momentum build for human rights considerations in technical standards. The Telecommunication Standardization Advisory

A new Cybercrime Treaty: Next week final negotiations kick off in New York on the UN's Ad Hoc Committee process to negotiate a Cybercrime Treaty. Since its inception in early 2021, accredited civil society and other stakeholders had hope that improvements on the Council of Europe's

Barriers to access: This week the Internet Architecture Board hosted a workshop on community networks, the digital divide and censorship to better understand what the technical community can do to lower the barriers to internet access. * Websites are getting bigger, and more expensive– also more consolidated in terms of market.