Research programmes, startups, public digital infrastructure and the people building it.
The 13th edition of Europe's leading digital rights conference will convene on 30 September 2025, both in-person and online, bringing together advocates, researchers and policymakers to address threats to online freedoms.
European Digital Rights is inviting participants to its flagship annual conference on 30 September, with a call for session proposals closing 21 July.
The latest roundup from Europe's digital rights advocates highlights threats to activists in Togo, forensic evidence of iOS spyware targeting journalists, and emerging alternatives to corporate-controlled social platforms.
A patchwork of conflicting state AI regulations threatens to slow innovation and undermine the federal government's ability to adopt commercial AI tools, according to Daniel Castro of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
Over a dozen academics warn that social media and messaging apps fundamentally alter how people process information and reach collective decisions, creating urgent risks from false and misleading content.
A coalition of academics argues that the study of how social media and messaging apps affect collective behaviour should be treated with the same urgency as medicine or climate science, calling for a Hippocratic oath in tech.