The Narrative: Lots of stuff happening!
September 30, 2022 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is having its Plenipotentiary meeting in Bucharest. These four-year events are always redolent with Read More
Category: Privacy & Surveillance
The Narrative: US Psyops caught by US platforms; Paper trails vs E2EE; Another cloud over TikTok
September 1, 2022 Impartiality in Content Moderation (!) Post-2016 hysteria about “information warfare” – which should be labeled foreign influence operations (IO) – created serious Read More
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 Read More
The Narrative: ICANN, ICANN and more ICANN
1 January, 2022 Happy New Year! To start off 2022 we look back – and forward – at the granddaddy of Internet governance issues, domain Read More
The IG Narrative: Platforms, Payments and Privacy
September 16, 2021 App Stores’ Market Power Challenged Legal and regulatory actions are beginning to target the economic leverage of Apple’s and Google’s mobile app Read More
The Narrative: Crisis at Afrinic; Apple breaks privacy; GIFCT participation
Crisis at AFRINIC The African Network Information Centre (Afrinic), the African regional Internet registry (RIR) for IP addresses, has had its bank accounts frozen by Read More
The Narrative: U.S. Congress “unites” against the platforms; Google (and the European Union) end cookies’ death sentence; Senegal’s data nationalism; China’s digital mercantilism
June 30, 2021 The USG goes after the platforms The attitudinal backlash against digital platforms (Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter) has quickly been translated Read More