Encryption Under Siege in India: National Security & the Erosion of Digital Privacy
Today (October 21, 2024) is Global Encryption Day. IGP participates in this worldwide event as Saumya Jain and Jyoti Panday examine India’s evolving assaults on private communications. End-to-end (E2E) encryption ensures that only the sender’s and recipient’s devices have access…
IGP Annual Workshop: Does AI Need Governance? October 17-18, 2024
Does AI Need Governance? Examining the Political Economy of Machine Learning The Internet Governance Project (IGP) announces its 9th annual workshop, focused on the critical topic of AI governance and its implications for information and communications technology (ICT) policy. This…
Beyond Big Tech: A Manifesto for Big Government
The backlash against Big Tech has given political movements as diverse as populist nationalist conservatives and woke progressives a common cause. Occasionally political entrepreneurs try to catalyze a movement around this anti-Big Tech sentiment, writing manifestos calling for change. The…
OTT Regulation in India: Turf Wars & Definitional Ambiguities
As smartphone adoption surges and wireless broadband becomes increasingly accessible, we’re witnessing a major shift in the digital landscape. Internet-based platforms are rapidly overtaking traditional services, from Facebook and WhatsApp challenging conventional SMS and voice calls to streaming giants like…
IGP to present at National Academies Workshop on Countering Disinformation
Disinformation online, and how it might be addressed, remains a persistent challenge for civil society, firms, and states. Tomorrow, April 10, the National Academies of Sciences will begin a workshop on Evolving Technological, Legal and Social Solutions to Counter Disinformation…
Get the Facts about the TikTok Law
We’d like to make the debate over a TikTok ban a bit more informative than it has been. Because the current law in the U.S. Congress is an unprecedented assertion of government control over a social media app, the stakes…
From Black to White: Dissecting Propaganda in Nuclear Emergencies, Finding Governance Solutions?
Disinformation during emergencies (DiE) can critically undermine government efforts to mitigate socioeconomic harm and damage the relationship between the state and citizens. With the production of nuclear power growing in multiple countries and widespread concern over generative-AI-fueled disinformation online, we…
The Narrative: VLOPs and VLOSErs; .NET Renewal; Stablecoins
1 May, 2023 Who’s a VLOP and who’s a VLOSER? Alibaba, Amazon, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter and Wikipedia are among the entities that have been designated “Very Large Online Platforms” (VLOPs) by the European Commission. Google search and Bing have…
Regulation of Algorithmic Regulation Begins
A Chinese law that went into effect six months ago required online service providers to file details of the algorithms they use with China’s centralized regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). In mid-August, CAC released a list of 30…
The Narrative: Anti-Section 230 bill advances; ICANN’s judicial branch
February 22, 2022 EARN IT Act moves forward The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a new version of the highly controversial Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act (EARN IT Act). First introduced in March 2020, EARN IT…