After two years of grueling, complex and contentious debate, the ICANN EPDP team delivered its Phase 2 Final Report on July 31st, 2020. Unfortunately, and disappointingly, the policy recommended for the so-called "System for Standardized Access/Disclosure" (SSAD) fails to meet the needs of the users it supposedly is designed to benefit.
The Software Freedom Law Center provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software. Eben Moglen. The Freedom Box
Council on Foreign Relations , Blog Post by Steven Feldstein November 30
Democracies should ask themselves whether forming yet another elite club of wealthy states represents the best means to counter China’s and fellow authoritarians’ digital rise.
How Should Democracies Confront China’s Digital Rise? Weighing the Merits of a T-10 Alliance. "Finally, before the United States assumes global leadership on tech policy, it needs to determine what its own orientation will be."
Longtemps l'idée d'une industrie numérique propre car « immatérielle » a dominé les esprits. Contre les géants du pétrole et de l'automobile, la Silicon Valley semblait l'alliée naturelle des politiques de lutte contre le réchauffement climatique. Cette illusion se dissipe. Une enquête conduite sur plusieurs continents révèle le coût environnemental exorbitant du secteur des hautes technologies.
NYT article about Clearview AI Inc. and other face recognition tech companies including Chinese and South Korean ones , by Kashmir Hill, from Oct 2021. Testing f-r tech at NIST.