Berto Jongman: Big Tech and Control Of Internet

Bringing big tech to heel: how do we take back control of the internet? The project will reference the world-leading Global Data Protection Regulation developed by the European Union. Under the regulation, the idea that you control your data footprint has been accepted and embedded with privacy protocols placing enforceable rules on how corporations harvest …

Event: Internet Identity Workshop 30 APR – 2 MAY Mountain View CA Organized by Kaliya “Identity Woman” Young & Others

The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005. We meet in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Every IIW moves topics, code and projects downfield. Name an identity topic and it’s likely that more substantial discussion and work has been done at IIW than …

Berto Jongman: John Harris on Global Battle for the Internet – Just Starting

The global battle for the internet is just starting Two competing visions of our digital future have emerged from China and Silicon Valley. But are they really so different? On one side sits the system used in China, which produces vast amounts of personal data and blurs into a huge apparatus of state surveillance and …

Berto Jongman: Web 3.0 – the decentralised web promises to make the internet free again

Web 3.0: the decentralised web promises to make the internet free again Edina Harbinja is Senior Lecturer in Law at Aston University. Vasileios Karagiannopoulos is Senior Lecturer in Law and Cybercrime, University of Portsmouth.  If you have recently considered deleting your Facebook account, boycotting Amazon or trying to find an alternative to Google, you are certainly not alone. The tech giants are invading our …