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Middle East Chapters Advocacy Meeting
About Internet Society
24 May 2019
Middle East Chapters Advocacy Meeting
Last month, the Chapters Advocacy Workshop for the Middle East, took place in Beirut Lebanon. The two-day event hosted...
Improving Routing Security: Microsoft Joins MANRS
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)
22 May 2019
Improving Routing Security: Microsoft Joins MANRS
In November, a routing incident in Nigeria caused Internet traffic to be rerouted through Russia and China. It lasted...
The Week in Internet News: San Francisco Bans Use of Facial Recognition by Police
Technology
20 May 2019
The Week in Internet News: San Francisco Bans Use of Facial Recognition by Police
No cameras, please: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted to ban the use of facial recognition technologies...
Envisioning the Future in the Middle East
Shaping the Internet's Future
16 May 2019
Envisioning the Future in the Middle East
How can the brightest minds help transform the Middle East for the better? The MIT SciTech Conference hoped to find...
WhatsApp: How a Bug Relates to the G7
Building Trust
14 May 2019
WhatsApp: How a Bug Relates to the G7
On 13 May, more than a billion users saw the messaging application WhatsApp being updated. At the same time...
The Week in Internet News: Broadband Project to Nowhere
Technology
13 May 2019
The Week in Internet News: Broadband Project to Nowhere
Dead end: ProPublica has a story about Kentucky’s $1.5 billion broadband expansion program, which the story calls an information...
Introducing The Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group
About Internet Society
10 May 2019
Introducing The Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group
An ordinary day on 9th April 2019 was turned in to an extraordinary one, as our efforts bore fruit...
Talking Internet of Things in Canada at IoT613 This Week
Internet of Things (IoT)
6 May 2019
Talking Internet of Things in Canada at IoT613 This Week
This week, 8-9 May, we’ll be at IoT613 in Ottawa, Canada, talking about our work on “Trust by Design”...
The Week in Internet News: Unencrypted USB Drives Pose Security Risk
Technology
6 May 2019
The Week in Internet News: Unencrypted USB Drives Pose Security Risk
No encryption for U(SB): About 55 percent of U.K. businesses don’t encrypt information on USB drives, according to the...
Register for AfPIF 2019
Connecting the World
2 May 2019
Register for AfPIF 2019
Join us in Balaclava, Mauritius for the 10th Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) from 20-22 August 2019. AfPIF...
How the Internet Society’s Privacy Statement Stacks Up
Privacy
1 May 2019
How the Internet Society’s Privacy Statement Stacks Up
For ten years, the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance (OTA) has published an annual comprehensive survey of 1,200 sites’...
The Economics of Trust: Overcoming Obstacles to Better Consumer IoT Security
Internet of Things (IoT)
29 April 2019
The Economics of Trust: Overcoming Obstacles to Better Consumer IoT Security
In 2018 the Internet Society launched the Trust by Design campaign, to make sure that security and privacy features...