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The IG Narrative: Platforms, Payments and Privacy

September 16, 2021 App Stores’ Market Power Challenged Legal and regulatory actions are beginning to target the economic leverage of Apple’s and Google’s mobile app stores, but the cases make […]

CCP Continues to Seal Off Its Digital Economy

The Chinese Communist Party’s focus on building a governance regime for cyberspace has resulted in the rapid introduction of several new laws and regulations on data governance, cybersecurity, the digital […]

A Fight Over Crumbs: The AFRINIC crisis

AFRINIC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa: a nonprofit, nongovernmental Internet governance organization. Like RIPE, ARIN, APNIC and LACNIC, it operates a registry for unique internet protocol (IP) […]

The Narrative: Crisis at Afrinic; Apple breaks privacy; GIFCT participation

Crisis at AFRINIC The African Network Information Centre (Afrinic), the African regional Internet registry (RIR) for IP addresses, has had its bank accounts frozen by court order, crippling its operations. […]

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Standardizing Security: Surveillance, Human Rights, and TLS 1.3

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Challenging the Social Media Moral Panic: Preserving Free Expression under Hypertransparency

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The Hidden Standards War: Economic Factors Affecting IPv6 Deployment

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Sovereign RUnet: What Does it Mean?

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Trade Regimes as a Tool for Cyber Policy

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Data Flows and the Digital Economy: Information as a Mobile Factor of Production

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