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A service providing off-grid communications services to everyday people received the grand prize at the Wireless Innovation for a Networked Society (WINS) Challenge from Mozilla…

"The First Amendment is rather unique. Free speech is widely protected with very few exceptions."

New policies aim to protect the privacy and security of personal data. How can trust be strengthened in the digital economy?

Internet companies need "information fiduciaries" to ensure that the consumer's best interest is kept at heart.

"We're all so aware of AI's tremendous power as a tool for manipulating customers and citizens that there are official calls to make AI dumber"

Considerations of ethics, social responsibility, and long-term impacts of software industry products

"Facebook’s responsibilities go beyond those of any other digital platform, and yet people seem to believe it fails to cope with these responsibilities"

Harvard authors connect American politics, media, and technology in "a provocative new book"

To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.

The wider adoption of encrypted protocols for website delivery — HTTPS — could have uncertain long-term implications for online access to information around the world.

A look at the user interfaces of 4 different online libraries

How social media bans reshape the filter bubble

Examining the unique socio-economic characteristics that affect how Small Islands States cope with health epidemics.

Despite largely negative media coverage of the subject, it is a good thing that TSA is brainstorming ways to optimize security in airports

Navigating and Understanding Digital Rights in Pakistan

An interview with Aida Joaquin Acosta summing up key points from 4 new policy papers on autonomous vehicles

How cultural differences account for our feelings about technology

Listening to the voices of the most marginalized people "is essential if we want to make space for many worlds, many ways of being, knowing, and doing, in our visions of A.I. and…

EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and Harvard's Jonathan Zittrain discuss what a tech-positive future looks like—and how we can get there.

Yochai Benkler describes the limitations of the popular view of economic inequality and technology