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The Hill “Before Russia began its brutal assault on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin controlled citizens’ access to information by flooding the airwaves and internet with propaganda. This year, with aggression toward Ukraine building, the Kremlin stepped up those efforts by shutting down independent Russian news organizations and restricting Russians’ access to Western websites that countered Russian […]

Daily Host News “[T]he Internet Infrastructure Coalition’s (i2Coalition) VPN Trust Initiative… is especially critical given the need for secure communications during times of local and global crises, such as we’re experiencing today in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.” Read full article…

HostingAdvice.com“[T]he i2Coalition’s goal is to knock down barriers to infrastructure growth, ensuring the internet continues to survive and thrive. The most recent barrier is Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act….” Read full article…

Gizmodo UKA coalition of major tech companies and digital rights organisations sent a message to the U.S. House of Representatives in support of an amendment to prohibit the FBI from collecting Americans’ web browsing data without a warrant. Read more…

Data protection experts Thomas Rickert (eco Association) & Christian Dawson (i2Coalition) look together at the new GDPR, ICANN, and beyond.

Many American and international companies are still unaware of how the new EU General Data Protection Regulation will affect them. Data protection gurus Thomas Rickert from the eco Association and Christian Dawson from i2Coalition look at how two voices for the Internet are teaming up on GDPR, ICANN, and beyond.

NASDAQ In a move to bolster deregulation in the telecom space, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unveiled a draft to repeal the Net Neutrality.

USA Today “This vote will negatively impact small- and medium-sized Internet business, and has the potential to decrease jobs and economic growth system-wide.”

Wired Opinion: Retaliating against hacks is the wrong way to prevent them.

DomainPulse It’s been going for a little less than a year and has close to 74,000 registrations, but .blog registry operator Knock Knock WHOIS There (KKWT) are ready to help tackle broader issues facing the internet community and have joined the i2Coalition to help their focus on diversity and transparency in technology.

The Next Web In a welcome tightening of the privacy laws surrounding email communications, The House of Representatives has passed the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 387).

Center for Democracy & Technology We, the undersigned civil society organizations, companies and trade associations, write to express our support for the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 387).

DomainPulse Blacknight CEO and domain name industry stalwart Michele Neylon has been appointed Chair Elect of the i2Coalition Board of Directors. Neylon’s position as Chair Elect became effective on 1 January and he will assume his role as Chair in January 2018.

CEO.Hosting While I’m sure a more traditional way to celebrate the New Year would be by committing to doing more exercise or similar, in my case it’s a time for a small announcement. As of January 1st 2017 I am “Chair Elect” of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition.

DN Journal As we do every January, we assembled a panel of leading experts from throughout the domain world to get their take on how the industry fared over the past year and its prospects for the new year ahead.

The Hill Lawmakers were often away from Washington in 2016, making legislative victories hard to come by.

R Street In addition to its high-profile music and film festivals, Austin’s South By Southwest (SXSW) also hosts one of the biggest annual gatherings of technologists, activists, government officials, entrepreneurs and academics in the country.

Complete Music Update The Internet Infrastructure Coalition, which represents a flurry of tech firms, has hit out at the recent submissions to the US Trade Representative’s ‘Notorious Markets’ report from the American music and movie industries.

Internet Society On September 30, 2016, organizations and individuals within the Internet’s technical and business communities filed the attached amicus brief in the lawsuit filed by the Attorney Generals of Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada seeking to enjoin the IANA Stewardship Transition.

ITI – Information Technology Industry Council The groups and individuals joined in the brief represent the innovators and architects of the internet, who rely on the healthy functioning of a global and open internet.

The Register A slew of internet organizations have come to the support of the US government in a last-minute lawsuit designed to prevent the handover of critical internet functions.

Dutch Data Center Group Says Draft Privacy Shield Weak Association that includes world’s largest data center providers sides with critics of proposed replacement for Safe Harbor.

TechCrunch A group of tech coalitions has written an open letter to Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), concerning their bill requiring all..

AppleInsider A group of four tech industry associations —representing businesses like Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google —have published an open letter opposing a draft bill by U.S. Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, which would make it possible for courts to order help bypassing encryption.

MacRumors An open letter expressing “deep concerns” about a U.S. draft encryption bill that would force smartphone makers to decrypt data at the behest of the government was published yesterday, signed by four coalitions representing Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and other major tech companies.

Business Insider One of the big upcoming battles for the tech industry is whether Congress will pass a law limiting the ability to build strong privacy measures into products like Facebook’s WhatsApp or Apple’s iPhone and iMessage.

The Verge Companies express ‘deep concerns’ in letter to Senators Burr and Feinstein

New America Basic Internet literacy can help foster sensible legislative positions on digital issues. An expert panel explores whether legislators and their staff have the resources necessary to build competence on Internet issues.

American Security Today The Internet Infrastructure Coalition, i2Coalition, has joined the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group to continue work on developing best practices for hosting and cloud service companies and to share other information that will protect end-users.

Christian Science Monitor – Passcode In a survey, Passcode’s pool of digital security and experts say Apple should not comply with help FBI crack San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone.

CNBC Discussing the government’s request of Apple’s help on accessing data on the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, with Former NSA official and current CEO of Area 1 Security, Oren Falkowitz.

Morning Consult We use words like “cloud” and “World Wide Web” to describe internet fundamentals – words that make it all seem like magic. But the mechanics of how the Internet works – connecting us to everything from our friends and families to our workplaces and retail locations – is anything but magic.

DN Journal Wednesday began with an update on the work being done by the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, delivered by Executive Director Christian Dawson and Membership Director Hilary van der Meulen.

DomainSherpa Jothan Frakes talks about NamesCon and the i2Coalition.

Wall Street Journal The renegotiation of Safe Harbor is showing the EU’s ability to redefine global systems using its size as a market player.

The Christian Science Monitor – Passcode A government mandate for access to secure communication technologies would cripple the security of the Web and hurt the thousands of small companies that make up the backbone of the Internet. 

Bloomberg Internet policymakers working on new rules for domain name privacy services have scrapped the controversial idea of prohibiting commercial entities from shielding their contact information from public view, according to a report obtained by Bloomberg BNA.

Blacknight Just over a week ago I was in Washington DC as part of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition’s delegation. Over the course of two days we met with quite a few Hill staffers, congress people and representatives.

Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group. (M3AAWG) Jointly published by the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) and the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group, the new document outlines proven activities that can help Web hosting services improve their operations and better protect end-users.

Global Security Mag Tackling security concerns with hosting and cloud storage, pervasive monitoring, identity management, and telephony, the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group has announced the formation of four new collaborative special interest groups along with its organizational leadership for 2014.

Afilias Industry leader joins group to provide public policy and advocacy voice for the Internet infrastructure industry

DomainPulse The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition), a group of global Internet infrastructure providers and technology firms who support the growth of the Internet, today introduced Afilias as its newest member.