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Taking an Ecosystem-wide Approach to Human Rights Due Diligence in the Technology Sector

January 9, 2023

Working closely with Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), GNI developed a tool that we hope will further human rights due diligence (HRDD)... Read more >

Between a Rock and a Hard Place?

July 1, 2022

ICT Companies, Armed Conflict, and International Law Arturo J. Carrillo George Washington University Law School... Read more >

Aligning Digital Responses to Armed Conflict with Enduring Values

June 16, 2022

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are cross-border in nature. This fact, in addition to their... Read more >

The Right Way to Regulate Digital Harms

January 8, 2021

In the Op-Ed “The Right Way to Regulate Digital Harms” published by Project Syndicate on... Read more >

Balancing Between Revenue Collection and Internet Access, by Liz Orembo

December 14, 2020

Following the earlier contributions to this blog series, which provided an overview of the six... Read more >

“Trends in Content Regulation in Africa and Beyond,” Report from the GNI Session at FIFAfrica

October 9, 2020

On September 28, GNI hosted a session on “Trends in Content Regulation in Africa and Beyond” as part of the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa... Read more >

GNI’s Submission to the Open Consultation on the EU Digital Services Act

September 29, 2020

Later this year, the European Commission is expected to finalize a draft of the Digital... Read more >

The UK’s Online Harms Bill: Potential Implications for the Right to Privacy

September 23, 2020

Following a discussion on the U.K. Online Harms White Paper, Richard Wingfield explores the privacy implications of the current regulatory... Read more >

From India to US, Forcing Proactive Policing of Online Content Is Censorship by Proxy

September 17, 2020

The brouhaha over Twitter’s labelling the US president’s tweets on the Minneapolis protests in May/June 2020 has again spurred the conversation... Read more >

Op-Ed: Five Ways Telecommunications Companies Can Fight Internet Shutdowns

August 26, 2020

Digital rights advocates have sometimes seen companies as adversaries when they cooperate with orders to limit or shut off services. But new research... Read more >

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