W3C publishes draft impact ratings for Web Sustainability Guidelines

By |2026-08-19T09:30:11+00:00August56 19, 2026|

The World Wide Web Consortium has published a draft framework for assessing how web sustainability practices affect people, the environment and economic wellbeing, helping organisations prioritise actions based on their expected impact.

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ICANN opens public comment on DNS abuse mitigation proposals

By |2026-08-19T09:20:21+00:00August20 19, 2026|

ICANN’s GNSO has opened a 40-day public comment period on an initial report proposing new obligations for registrars to investigate domains associated with actionable evidence of DNS abuse.

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ARIN opens registration for 58th Public Policy and Members Meeting

By |2026-08-18T06:42:20+00:00August19 18, 2026|

Registration is open for ARIN 58, which will take place in Miami and online on 22–23 October 2026 and will focus on Internet policy and community participation.

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IGF 2026 to hold second open consultations and MAG meeting in Geneva

By |2026-08-18T17:33:42+00:00August48 17, 2026|

The Internet Governance Forum will hold its second round of open consultations and a meeting of its Multistakeholder Advisory Group from 7 to 9 September 2026 in Geneva and online.

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Applications open for 2026–2027 DPI Safeguards Working Groups

By |2026-08-17T13:26:44+00:00August11 15, 2026|

The UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies and UNDP are inviting government officials, technical experts and other practitioners to join working groups focused on financing, governance and technical safeguards for digital public infrastructure.

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German privacy watchdog urges EU to scrap cookie banners

By |2026-08-14T15:59:07+00:00August14 14, 2026|

Germany’s federal data protection authority is calling on EU lawmakers to abandon the current cookie-banner model and replace it with a centralised, machine-readable consent system embedded in the Digital Omnibus package. In new recommendations published on 13 August 2026, the Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI), Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider, argues that cookie banners have [...]

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