May 6, 2020
EDRi Launches Hub to Track Digital Rights Amid Pandemic
EDRi’s investigation of COVID-19 era surveillance includes recommendations from digital rights watchdog organizations.
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Posts by Digital Impact News
April 22, 2020
Integrated Advocacy: Paths Forward for Digital Civil Society
A report from the Digital Civil Society Lab looks at how organizations are evolving to address policy issues in the digital age.
February 27, 2020
Civil Society and GDPR Compliance
A report from OSF looks at how nefarious actors have tried to use the GDPR to stifle public interest research and reporting in the social sector.
September 5, 2018
2018 Grants Cohort Selected
Digital Impact has awarded nearly $200,000 in grants to five social sector organizations working to advance the safe, ethical, and effective use of digital resources for social good.
May 30, 2018
GDPR: ICO Publishes Final Guidance on Consent
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has released tools to help organizations prepare for the GDPR. The latest guidance features key changes from past iterations.
May 29, 2018
GDPR and the End of the Internet’s Grand Bargain
The following is an excerpt of an article published by Harvard Business Review on April 9, 2018. “For now, GDPR, which replaces previous EU mandates on data collection and use, differs significantly from U.S. law, pushing the two regions further apart in their approaches to regulating the digital economy. “The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation […]
May 28, 2018
Internet Health Report Uncovers Three Issues of Growing Concern
Who controls the internet? How open is it? Who is welcome online? Is it safe? Who can succeed there? Mozilla’s Internet Health Report, an open source compilation of data, research, and stories, shows how the internet is evolving across these five issues. The editor of the report, Solana Larsen, joined Digital Civil Society Lab Director […]
May 27, 2018
Companies Respond To GDPR By Blocking EU Users
Mike Masnick, editor of the Techdirt blog, is concerned about the new regulation’s potential to splinter the internet “in a way that we’re not entirely prepared for.”
May 26, 2018
Let’s Talk about Applying the GDPR in the United States
As Elena Souris and Hollie Russon Gilman at Vox write, “While online rights are coming into question, it’s worth considering how those will overlap with offline rights and civic engagement.”
May 25, 2018
Cybersecurity Must Be a Top Priority for Nonprofits
When business ethics and governance expert Lucy P. Marcus calls data breaches “an artifact of modern indifference,” she’s alluding to how “companies, regardless of size or sector, need to recognize their responsibility … to be vigilant and proactive about securing their data and systems.” Marcus admits that while the threat of a cybersecurity breach is […]