Shaping a Profession, Building a Community
Exploring how practitioners define public interest technology, and what it takes to sustain and grow the field.
author: Mallory Knodel
Big Tech Redefined the Open Internet to Serve Its Own Interests
Big Tech companies have redefined terms like “openness” and “free expression” to support business models built on centralization and data monetization.
AI, Bias and the Courts
AI is reshaping how courts make decisions, but without transparency and accountability, these tools risk amplifying bias, eroding civil rights, and undermining public trust in the justice system. This is a summary of Mallory Knodel’s keynote at the Michigan Judges Conference.
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.
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.
But first...
We Must Back the Tools that Beat Censorship
A few weeks ago, the Trump administration moved
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.
But first...
IETF 119 and the HRPC This Week in
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.