Register for the Fifth Annual Indigenous Connectivity Summit
In its second year as a virtual event, the Indigenous Connectivity Summit will take place on 12-15 October 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic showed us that those who lack connectivity face the effects of starker inequalities. Millions of people across Canada and the United States still can’t take advantage of the benefits of a fast, affordable, and reliable Internet connection. Indigenous communities disproportionately suffer from the negative impact of this digital
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Make the Switch for Global Encryption Day
Global Encryption Day is a digital global event taking place on . Organized by the Global Encryption Coalition (GEC), Global Encryption Day will put strong encryption firmly in the spotlight ...
Encryption: A Building Block of a Trustworthy Internet
At the Internet Society, we’re committed to building a bigger and stronger Internet. To make sure it remains open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy, we connect the right people to ...
Confronting European Encroachment on Encryption
In late 2020, as Portugal prepared to take over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), the Internet Society’s Portugal Chapter began ramping up its advocacy against worrying ...
Mauritius Must Not Fall into the ‘Mass Surveillance’ Trap
On 17 May, 2020, The Internet Society, alongside the IGF Mauritius, submitted a response to the call to the government of Mauritius' call to provide input to the proposed amendments ...
A Digital Dystopia: How Calls for Backdoors to Encryption Would Ruin the Internet for Everyone
A little over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, our reliance on private, safe, and secure communication has become more critical than ever. So it’s no surprise that organizations across ...
Don’t Poke Holes in Our Digital Security Shield
In only a few days the European Union will close the doors on our chance to provide feedback on an initiative which could grant law enforcement agencies backdoor access to ...
Enough Is Enough: What Happens When Law Enforcement Bends Laws to Access Data
Tutanota co-founder Matthias Pfau explains how a recent court order is a wake-up call to end the encryption debate once and for all In a world increasingly reliant on the ...
Not the Encryption Apocalypse…Yet
"This destroys the RSA cryptosystem." That is the last sentence in the abstract of a new, preliminary, dense mathematical paper published by renowned mathematician Claus Peter Schnorr. If this turns ...
