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To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.

The wider adoption of encrypted protocols for website delivery — HTTPS — could have uncertain long-term implications for online access to information around the world.

A look at the user interfaces of 4 different online libraries

How social media bans reshape the filter bubble

Examining the unique socio-economic characteristics that affect how Small Islands States cope with health epidemics.

Despite largely negative media coverage of the subject, it is a good thing that TSA is brainstorming ways to optimize security in airports

Navigating and Understanding Digital Rights in Pakistan

An interview with Aida Joaquin Acosta summing up key points from 4 new policy papers on autonomous vehicles

How cultural differences account for our feelings about technology

Listening to the voices of the most marginalized people "is essential if we want to make space for many worlds, many ways of being, knowing, and doing, in our visions of A.I. and…

EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and Harvard's Jonathan Zittrain discuss what a tech-positive future looks like—and how we can get there.

Yochai Benkler describes the limitations of the popular view of economic inequality and technology

Exploring the emergence of consumer surveillance

Regulating, not banning, facial recognition technology

How should we think about the ethical implications of AI-powered products and services?

Journalist Arzu Geybullayeva discusses censorship, threats, and human rights in Azerbaijan

What happens if the Supreme Court strikes down a law, only to have a later court reverse it?

Faculty Associate Primavera De Filippi joins a debate discussing Blockchain, what it is, and whether it is deserving of its current hype.

Keith Porcaro presents his work on data trusts, a legal tool for governing and protecting digital movements.

A meditation on the temporality of forests