UPDATED: February 7, 2019 Last year we released Ad Analysis for Facebook, part of our solution to the lack of transparency around political advertising on the web. We wanted to … Read more
The Aadhaar judgment holds important lessons (and warnings) for how courts and the polity should respond to the technological vision of the state. The task before the Supreme Court was … Read more
At the upcoming 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, we’re convening a timely high-level panel discussion on the future of advertising in an open and sustainable internet … Read more
Lawmakers in the EU have proposed a new legal framework that will make it easier for police in one country to get access to user data in another country (so-called … Read more
We’ve argued for many years that governments should implement transparent processes to review and disclose the vulnerabilities that they learn about. Such processeses are essential for the cybersecurity of citizens, … Read more
Update: “We’re pleased to see California passed a sweeping privacy law to protect your data and right to choose how it’s used. It’s still not perfect, but we’re not letting … Read more
In mid March, the European Commission published the final report of the High Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Fake News, “A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Disinformation”. The group was established in … Read more
This morning, the White House released a new version of the Vulnerabilities Equities Process (VEP). We want to thank Rob Joyce, and the rest of the NSC staff working on … Read more
Algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other code-driven decisionmaking are increasingly hot topics for policymakers across the globe. The latest request for information came from the House of Commons Science … Read more
Today, Mozilla sent a letter to Congress expressing support for an important bill has just been introduced: the Protecting Our Ability to Counter Hacking Act (PATCH Act). You can read … Read more
We are at RightsCon 2017 in Brussels this week with many of our friends and colleagues globally to discuss how to keep the Internet open, free, and secure. From Wednesday … Read more
Today, the organization WikiLeaks published a compendium of information alleged to be documents from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pertaining to tools and techniques to compromise the security of … Read more