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UK Government’s Attack on Encryption: Experts Push Back

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. Joint Letter on the UK Government’s use

The Future 🔮 of Messaging: Interoperability Meets Encryption

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

Trump’s Second Term: Six Predictions for the Future of Encryption

Trump’s Second Term: Six Predictions for the Future of Encryption

But first: 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

Brazil vs. X and France vs. Telegram... vs. users

Brazil vs. X and France vs. Telegram... vs. users

10 ways the internet makes things worse for human rights

10 ways the internet makes things worse for human rights

The internet has facilitated a new era of challenges and threats to human rights. While it has enabled e-commerce, it has exacerbated inequality. While it has democratized freedom of expression, it has given a megaphone to hate speech. While it has lowered barriers to access information, it has proliferated misinformation.

AI has 99 problems and none are technical

AI has 99 problems and none are technical

It’s critical to confront the reality that AI is just modern data science with one major promise (or peril): It’s our only hope of making sense of the vast quantities of unstructured data produced by ubiquitous sensors and surveillance. It is this underlying motivation that needs our attention.