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.
internet governance
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
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
UK Government’s Attack on Encryption: Experts Push Back
The UK government is demanding Apple create a backdoor in its encrypted services—a move that threatens privacy and the integrity of global cybersecurity. Over 100 experts and civil society organizations have signed an open letter urging the UK to back down.
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Mallory on INFLUENCE: How We Reclaim
The Future 🔮 of Messaging: Interoperability Meets Encryption
The EU’s Digital Markets Act is forcing end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms to play nice, starting with WhatsApp. But will interoperability actually open up the market, as it's intended to do, or make big players even stronger? Mallory Knodel breaks down the tech, the trade-offs, and what’s
Zuckerberg Scales Back Content Moderation—What Happens Next Is Up to Us
Meta's announced changes to its content moderation policies deeply dissappointed us. Mallory has dedicated decades of her career to working in human rights organizations, helping to create the critical policies Meta is now casting aside. I spent the last five years of my career at Mozilla Foundation, advocating
Trump’s Second Term: Six Predictions for the Future of Encryption
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Teaching AI to Respect Boundaries
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) just announced a new working group (AI-Control) to help content publishers control how AI systems use their data. Building on tools like robots.txt—which was designed to manage web crawler access, not AI scraping—the group