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Microsoft has published as updated version of its A Cloud for Global Good policy roadmap, originally released in October 2016. The 2018 edition reflects recent developments in areas such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning, and contains several policy recommendations for 'governments, industry and civil society to consider as they realise the [...]

Although still ongoing, a group of civil society technologists' analysis of IETF RFC 7725 at the IETF 99 Hackathon already demonstrates 'how implementation and data on human rights can inform protocol design.' The draft implementation report provides extensive comments, including potential negative or positive impacts, in particular considering the significance and use of IETF Status Code 451, so-named in [...]

The European Commission is setting up a High-Level Expert Group on fake news and online disinformation, with representatives of academia, the tech industry, news media and civil society and has opened a call for applications to participate in the group. In addition, it launched a public consultation to feed into an EU-strategy on how to tackle [...]

A letter signed by more than 300 civil society organisations calling on the WTO to refrain from adopting a negotiating agenda for e-commerce was made public. The document argues that new rules would benefit large global companies at the expense of the public interest and that digital policy issues should be discussed in other forums.

The joint press statement by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Vera Jourová, on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Review has been published. The first annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework took place in Washington, DC. It states that since the program’s inception, more than 2.400 organizations [...]

As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to make a final decision with regard to the US net neutrality rules by the end of the year, a coalition of activists and civil society organisations is planning a new action in support of net neutrality, for late September. The Battle for the Net initiative, which [...]

Major Internet companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix, and civil society organisations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge take part today (12 July) in a massive online ‘day of action’ in support of the US net neutrality rules. The rules, adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2015, are [...]

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Microsoft have announced the formation of a Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism. This cooperation includes sharing technical solutions, research to inform their efforts, and working with counter-terrorism experts - including the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate and the ICT4Peace Foundation - to establish a knowledge-sharing network. The Forum does not [...]

The UN Report of the Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of the right to freedom of opinion and expression examining, in particular, the role of States in undermining freedom of expression online and other implications for online rights, including recommendations for States and private actors is now available. The report includes a summary of consultations, [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, and Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Edison Lanza, have condemned the practice of censorship and Internet blocking in Venezuela. They pointed out that 'even under a state of emergency, the regulation as well as limitation [...]