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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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Don’t Poke Holes in Our Digital Security Shield

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Enough Is Enough: What Happens When Law Enforcement Bends Laws to Access Data

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Not the Encryption Apocalypse…Yet

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Don’t Make Parents Raise Kids in a World without Encryption

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Businesses Can’t Afford to Lose Trust in the Encrypted Economy, and Neither Can You

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How Strong Encryption Can Protect Survivors of Domestic Violence

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EU Internet Society Chapters Call on European Commission to Follow the Path of Strong Encryption. Here’s Why You Should Too.

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