Open Internet standards are the cornerstone of the Internet’s success, and the processes for creating them must remain open ...

The Internet is no longer optional infrastructure—it is essential to people’s lives and livelihoods. It connects families, drives economies, and underpins the exchange of knowledge and information ...

This policy brief urges policymakers to adopt policies that eliminate shutdowns as a tool and to analyze and weigh the effects of restricting access.

Earlier this year, the United Kingdom government ordered Apple to provide access to encrypted data in the company’s cloud storage service, iCloud. In response, Apple removed its Advanced Data ...

This joint report by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Society (ISOC) offers the first substantive look at the global impact of the Internet Governance ...

Earlier this year, the UK government’s backdoor requirement led Apple to withdraw its encrypted backup services from the country. In France, proposed “Narcotrafic” legislation would compromise ...

Peering is a fundamental part of how the Internet works. It allows networks to exchange traffic directly, reducing reliance on intermediaries. This improves performance, lowers costs, and increases ...

Governments are increasingly turning to age verification to try to restrict access to certain types of content on the Internet. Many such laws may be well-intentioned with the aim to prevent exposing ...

In a small Paraguayan village, women from the Nivaclé Indigenous people are using the Internet to sell carob flour directly to consumers in the capital city of Asunción, bringing larger profits for ...

Technical measures to screen the content of messages in end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) systems introduce systemic risk for both service providers and users. They frustrate law-abiding users’ intent to ...

The outage did not directly impact Seacom, whose network spans the East African and South African coastlines. However, due to outages to its partner networks on the West Coast—WACS and MainOne—it had ...