Index on Censorship brought together MPs and activists to discuss how essential it is for dissidents to be able to communicate securely
Former Pussy Riot member and Uyghur activist say encryption keeps them safe
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CATEGORY: Digital rights
Starlink offers a glimmer of hope in the internet darkness
Uganda is the latest country to shut down the internet as people goes to the polls
Investigative journalism under threat if government breaks end-to-end encryption
Index and other organisations issue statement as UK Members of Parliament debate a petition calling for the Online Safety Act to be repealed
Australia’s disproportionate response to online harms
Banning the under-16s from many social media spaces may look like the answer, but it curtails free expression and threatens privacy. There must be a better way
China media giant Tencent gags anti-censorship website FreeWeChat
The website of anti-censorship organisation GreatFire.org’s platform dedicated to exposing Chinese government censorship of WeChat is taken offline by US hosting provider Vultr
New report: Breaking encryption is legally and practically unworkable
Publication sets out our position on why governments should not break end-to-end encryption (E2EE), widely used to protect dissidents
The ethics of AI-generated content and who (or what) is responsible
Index explores the world of Hitler worship, social harms and the welfare of AI assistants
The Online Safety Act risks making everyone less safe
The fallibility of technology means that the privacy of us all could be compromised, as new rules on age verification come into force
Free expression concerns over Online Safety Act’s age verification requirements
There are many questions around how age verification works in practise and what its consequences could be for our online speech
The female keyboard warriors taking on Myanmar’s military junta
Inside and outside the country, digital activists are using the power of the internet to expose human rights abuses