For perpetrators of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), the internet is the weapon of choice; it allows them to monitor their targets from anywhere in the world. In this paper, Suzie Dunn provides an overview of the violence taking place online and discusses the myriad individual and systemic harms caused by TFGBV.
Cory Doctorow and Shoshana Zuboff have different opinions about the influence that technology giants are capable of. While this tension might seem like a crack appearing in a once-aligned movement, Taylor Owen argues that this sophisticated debate is exactly what we need to take on powerful companies.
Crimes facilitated by the internet are on the rise, but law enforcement measures aren't keeping pace. Neil Desai explains in this op-ed for The National Post.
Once normalized, technology decisions are notoriously difficult to change, replace or undo. In this article, Bianca Wylie calls for the creation of policy that puts the public in control of technology and how it shapes society.
What the Indo-Pacific means in geographic terms has not been settled, and what it means in policy terms varies from one interested party to the next. Dan Ciuriak explains.
Jan. 13 – 7:00 p.m. EST (UTC–05:00): Join us for a virtual event with Laura DeNardis celebrating the launch of her latest book, The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch. DeNardis will discuss the social and economic benefits of the Internet of Things, and how digital infrastructure has become a proxy for political power.