The Problem With the United Nations Setting Tech Standards for Your Internet...
Dominique Lazanski lives and works in London. She has over 16 years of experience working in the Internet industry. She is writing in a personal capacity and her views do not necessarily reflect those...
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Ben Buchanan is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Cybersecurity Project. His first book, The Cybersecurity Dilemma, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. You can follow him...
View ArticleChina’s Big Data Push Runs Into Orwell and Red Tape
Lorand Laskai is a research associate in Asia studies program at the Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow him @lorandlaskai. Like most policymakers around the world, the leadership of the...
View ArticlePresident Trump’s Unlikely Effect on the U.S.-EU Tech Relationship
Marietje Schaake is a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands. You can follow her @MarietjeSchaake The contrast between the early days of the Trump and Obama administrations could not be...
View ArticleWhat’s Next for ICANN in the Absence of U.S. Oversight? An Interview With Kal...
The United States relinquished its stewardship role over the internet last year, to the celebration of some and the consternation of others. Kal Raustiala, author of “An Internet Whole and Free” in the...
View ArticleDoes Free Wi-Fi Improve Internet Accessibility in South Africa?
Chenai Chair and Broc Rademan are researchers at Research ICT Africa, a public-interest research organization that examines information and communication technology policy in Africa. You can find them...
View ArticleThe Link Between Internet Access and Economic Growth Is Not as Strong as You...
Mark Graham, Nicolas Friederici and Sanna Ojanperä are researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute. They recently published The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of...
View ArticleSouth Africa Introduces Revised Cybercrime Legislation, Acknowledging Criticism
Mailyn Fidler is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. You can follow her @mailynfidler. In February 2017, South Africa introduced a new cybercrime bill...
View ArticleWhen China’s White-Hat Hackers Go Patriotic
Lorand Laskai is a research associate in Asia studies program at the Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow him @lorandlaskai. Only hours after China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA)...
View ArticleOn the Internet, Nobody Knows That You’re A Russian Bot
Robert Gorwa is a graduate student at the University of Oxford and a member of the Oxford Internet Institute’s computational propaganda research team. Following the hacking of the U.S. Democratic...
View ArticleHacking Defense and Diplomacy in Silicon Valley
Scott Hartley is a venture capitalist and term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book, The Fuzzy and the Techie (Houghton Mifflin), comes out in April. You can follow him...
View ArticleChina and the United States Have an Eerily Similar Approach to Data Sovereignty
Lincoln Davidson is an analyst at Ergo, a New York-based research and advisory firm. You can follow him on Twitter at @dvdsndvdsn. In an article published on Lawfare earlier this week, Susan Hennessey...
View ArticleWhere Speech Goes, Repression Follows: The Global Trend of Criminalizing...
Nani Jansen Reventlow is a human rights lawyer with Doughty Street Chambers in London and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Jonathan McCully is...
View ArticleTakeaways From the EWI Cyberspace Cooperation Summit
Bruce McConnell is the Global Vice President of the EastWest Institute. He leads the organization’s Cooperation in Cyberspace Initiative. On March 14-16, the EastWest Institute (EWI), in partnership...
View ArticleWhy Policymakers Should Care About Weak Digital Infrastructure Abroad
Mirko Hohmann is a Project Manager and Alexander Pirang is a non-resident Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. You can follow Hohmann @mirkohohmann. Last month, INTERPOL...
View ArticleThe French Court Case That Threatens to Bring the “Right to be Forgotten”...
Nani Jansen Reventlow is a human rights lawyer with Doughty Street Chambers in London and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. You can follow her...
View ArticleReport Watch Vol. II: Tracking Digital and Cyber Scholarship So You Don’t...
Alex Grigsby is the assistant director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program and Lorand Laskai is a research associate in the Asia Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow...
View ArticleEurope Is Developing Offensive Cyber Capabilities. The United States Should...
Jeppe T. Jacobsen is a Ph.D. candidate at the Danish Institute for International Studies and the University of Southern Denmark. He previously worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark as a...
View ArticleIf Congress Dismantles Dodd-Frank, It Should Not Ignore Systemic Cyber Risk
Alex Lloyd George is a research associate at the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ever since Donald Trump’s election victory, financiers and free-marketeers...
View ArticleGetting Intelligence Agencies to Adapt to Life Out of the Shadows
Jamie Collier is a Cyber Security DPhil Candidate and a Research Affiliate with the Cyber Studies Programme, University of Oxford. You can follow him @jscollier93. Gone are the days when spy agencies...
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