Digital Governance Policy Analysis, Research and Outreach and Engagement
Law enforcement access to people s private data is one of the defining governance challenges of our time, and it is not a conversation of the past. Governments are expanding their legal tools to compel disclosure of personal information from Internet intermediaries, often with minimal judicial oversight, inconsistent human rights safeguards, and almost no public transparency. [ ] The post From the…
As we reported here in February 2026, as the Iranian Women Coalition for Internet Freedom, we sent letters to the ITU and the Radio Regulation Board (in charge of receiving disputes about satellite and nowadays satellite Internet). In those letters we asked them to treat satellite Internet governance like Internet governance and argued that access [ ] The post Beyond Bureaucracy: Why Multilateral…
As a result of the genuine technical problems that some AI bots have created for networks, we increasingly hear questions about who “controls” the Internet after AI, a question Paul Keller addresses in this blog, or who should decide how online content may be used, particularly for LLMs and other AI products. The question of [ ] The post No One Should Control the Internet After AI: Freedom to…
Iranian Women s Coalition for Internet Freedom, https://www.iranianwomen4internet.org/ March 23, 2026 · Geneva, Switzerland Why Everyone Who Cares About the Internet Should Be Watching This Week s ITU RRB Meeting This week — March 23 to 27, 2026 — the International Telecommunication Union s Radio Regulations Board (RRB) is holding its first session of the year in Geneva. [ ] The post Why Internet…
When the most recent wave of protests began in Iran in January and escalated across the country, the government responded in a way that has become disturbingly familiar: by shutting down the Internet. This time, one of the longest and the most severe shutdowns in history. Major network operators were throttled or disabled (in uneven [ ] The post ITU, Radio Regulations Board, State Power, and the…
In this blog I am going to talk about mitigation of DNS abuse in zero-click domains. But let me start with a caveat for those who don’t know me: I am a defender of the open, global Internet. I believe DNS abuse or any other kind of abuse mitigation should be handled with care so [ ] The post When Parked Domains Abuse the Domain Registration and Our Mitigation Processes Fail appeared first on…
In recent months, the debate over how AI systems should interact with online content has intensified. Much of the discussion has focused on how creators can express “machine-readable” preferences about AI training and text-and-data mining (TDM). What seems, at first glance, like a debate about metadata quickly becomes something else when one looks at the [ ] The post Asset-Level AI Signaling: DRM…
There’s growing attention to the fight over who governs satellite internet. A piece in Tech Policy Press by Nunes and Teixeria flags how the push for stricter regulatory enforcement, geolocation mandates, terminal disablement, national authorizations, could end up entrenching the very incumbents they aim to constrain. It’s a sharp warning: rules designed to bring satellite [ ] The post We Need a…
At the moment Digital Medusa works on two standards work streams: Trust and Safety: standardization of trust and safety best practices through Digital Trust and Safety Partnership: https://dtspartnership.org/ the Safe Framework has become an ISO specification: https://dtspartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/DTSP_Safe-Framework-Specification-7.15.pdf AI and Crawlers: the IETF has convened a…
Cloudflare recently proposed a system where AI companies and crawlers would pay websites for the right to crawl their content, a move framed as “content independence day”, a response to growing concerns from creators and publishers about the unlicensed scraping of the web for AI training. But while the proposal might appear to support fair [ ] The post The Enclosure of the Open Web and the Open…