News & Media Releases

GNI’s Assessor Recruitment Period is Open

November 4, 2020

GNI is seeking to expand its pool of accredited assessors to participate in its next cycle of independent assessments and is accepting applications... Read more >

Elonnai Hickok Joins GNI’s Academic Constituency

November 4, 2020

GNI welcomes Elonnai Hickok in her independent capacity as a member of its academic... Read more >

Addressing Digital Harms AND Protecting Human Rights — GNI Shares Recommendations for Policymakers

October 13, 2020

Washington, D.C./Amsterdam — Today the Global Network Initiative (GNI) issued a policy brief that uses... 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

GNI submitted comments to the EU’s open consultation on the DSA, addressing questions in: Safety and Responsibility; Liability Regime; and... 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 >

Cloudflare Joins the Global Network Initiative as an Observer

August 26, 2020

Cloudflare is the first web-infrastructure and security company to join GNI as an observer. “We believe Cloudflare’s cybersecurity expertise will... Read more >

The Digital Services Act: An Opportunity to Build Human Rights Safeguards into Notice and Action

August 17, 2020

The E-Commerce Directive (ECD) allows Member States to flesh out the details of notice-and-action in national law, which has led to significant... Read more >

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