“An ancient tablet is more reliable than today’s servers. Why our digital memory is on borrowed time, and how to reclaim it.”
How we became tenants of our digital memory
“With the aim of protecting minors from smartphone addiction, governments and security agencies are moving forward with universal identity verification laws. The risk is enormous: opening the door to greater control and the digitization of mass surveillance.”
Age verification: child protection or surveillance for everyone?
“I read it without being a practising Catholic, as someone who works in technology policy and came across a document that names precisely some things our field is still asking about.”
A technopolitical reading of Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI
“Let us make sure “modernisation” does not turn into surveillance and control.”
Página/12 interview on Argentina’s “social digital twin”
“Peter Thiel’s (Palantir) arrival in Argentina is raising concerns about opaque data intelligence contracts. Amid talk of security, mass surveillance threatens fundamental freedoms throughout Latin America. How can we put limits on it?”
Palantir: how to debunk the rhetoric of surveillance
7 Minute Futures: The Internet of the Next Generation with Gbenga Sesan
What needs and ideas do new generations bring for shaping internet technologies, and are we ready for the rights that will emerge?
7 Minute Futures: The Power of Choice with Daphne Keller
In episode 2 (the first after the trailer) we hear from the amazing Daphne Keller. Tune in!
7 Minute Futures: What’s this about?
Welcome to Seven Minute Futures, the podcast where I talk to tech and society leaders about the main challenges in digital life and what we can do about them.
Building a healthier digital public sphere
What institutions, communities, and technology teams can do to make online public life more open, resilient, and humane.
“If the country that used to champion this limitation of liability is now questioning it, then that generates the space for other countries and lawmakers to spark proposals of reform.”
How changing a 26-word US internet law could impact online expression everywhere
Who regulates the regulators?
For Cenital
“Around the world, we are at the mercy of when they decide to act. Sometimes they act very late, and sometimes they act not at all.”
After barring Trump, Facebook and Twitter face scrutiny about inaction abroad
What the Facebook Oversight Board means for human rights, and where we go from here
For Access Now
Guide: how to protect human rights in content governance
For Access Now
G7 internet charter has its foundations right, but key elements still threaten human rights
For Access Now
Readings and research on social networks, influence on voting, and Cambridge Analytica
For Medium
Lie to me, as always… (on Argentina’s electoral disinformation bill)
For Medium
“We call on Venezuela's government to reverse course, refrain from imposing further censorship, and to restore the free and open communications that are vital to any healthy democracy.”
Venezuela just took a huge step toward controlling all access to the Internet
Against trolls (and their unexpected allies)
For Medium
“My perception is that Brazilian users understand that there are more options out there, and that some of them offer a decent level of privacy and security.”
Brazil's latest WhatsApp ban is pushing users to other encrypted messaging apps
“If you can force companies to decrypt communications, it's going to have global implications. It's going to break the Internet.”
With or without evidence, terrorism fuels combustible encryption debate
“Tweets by politicians are a valuable resource for journalists and citizens for the exercise of the right to information.”
Donald Trump's deleted 9/11 tweet shows the need for the Politwoops service Twitter killed
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