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What Governments Can Learn from Canada when Regulating Online Harms

The Government of Canada introduced Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, on 26 February 2024. As the name implies, the Bill seeks to address certain harms that people see online through various public platforms. The Internet Society was extremely concerned about this legislation, mainly because early discussions of what the Bill might do contained alarming ideas about what is and is not technically possible in a functioning Internet. We feared

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No keys under the doormat please

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Strong Support From The UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye For Anonymity And Encryption

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Encryption Backdoors Decrease Trust In The Internet

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I Just Want to Communicate Confidentially: Is That too Much to Ask?

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Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
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Make Encryption The Norm For All Internet Traffic, Says The Internet Architecture Board (IAB)

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Video: CrypTech and RPKI (Randy Bush at RIPE 68)

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Freedom of Speech: Rethinking the Role of Encryption

Classically, the encryption of data solves two simple problems:
  1. how to store data securely when it's at rest,
  2. how to communicate it securely when it's in motion.
On ...