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The Digital Services Act and Online Content Regulation: A Slippery Slope for Human Rights?

July 15, 2020

Governments are increasingly taking steps to force tech companies to take more responsibility for the platforms they have created and the harms that... Read more >

The European Union’s Emerging Approach to Content Regulation

July 13, 2020

The Digital Services Act is not only positioned to impact how companies do business in Europe but to presage a broader shift in how digital content... Read more >

The Rights Foundation

July 10, 2020

GNI recently reviewed over a dozen new governmental initiatives that claim to address content regulation.... Read more >

Companies Must Defend Digital Rights in the COVID-19 Era

June 5, 2020

In the Op-Ed “Companies Must Defend Digital Rights in the COVID-19 Era,” published by Project... Read more >

The Global Network Initiative: Past, Present, and Future

December 20, 2018

By Leslie Harris How did GNI Start? GNI is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Those of... Read more >

Why Joining GNI is Part of Paradigm Initiative’s Success Story

November 2, 2018

By ’Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative The increasingly virulent digital rights landscape in Africa,... Read more >

GNI: A Journey of Trust and Making Common Cause

October 16, 2018

After two-plus years of intensive negotiation, GNI was launched in October... Read more >

Getting Specific About Transparency, Privacy, and Free Expression Online

November 5, 2014

Amid the contentious global debates about privacy and surveillance since the Snowden revelations, few proposed reforms have attracted more consensus... Read more >

GNI Responds to GCHQ in the Financial Times

November 5, 2014

In reaction to the Financial Times op-ed by Richard Hannigan, Director of GCHQ, GNI Board Chair Mark Stephens wrote this letter to the editor, "Need... Read more >

Op-Ed: Privacy Since Snowden

June 18, 2014

A year has passed since the American former intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden began revealing the massive scope of Internet surveillance by... Read more >

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