Why Meta is retreating from encryption

In 2019, Mark Zuckerberg called privacy the future of social networking. Not anymore

The Internet of Consent - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

The Internet of Consent - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

The Consentful Tech Project – The Consentful Tech Project raises awareness, develops strategies, and shares skills to help people build and use technology consentfully.

The Consentful Tech Project, the Detroit Community Technology Project, And Also Too, and Data 4 Black Lives are thrilled to announce the launch of our new curriculum. From protecting ourselves…

Yes: Affirmative Consent as a Theoretical Framework for Understanding and Imagining Social Platforms | Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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"The protocol world has been trying to solve the problem of how to leave, and the next step is working on how we can stay together."

It's not enough to be free. We also need to be in community

We Shouldn’t Wait Another Fifteen Years for a Conversation About

With high-profile hacks in the headlines and government officials trying to reopen a long-settled debate about encryption, information security has become a mainstream issue. But we feel that one

Permissioned data proposal discussion

This is a forum thread to collect feedback on the permissioned data protocol proposal! To clarify: this is still a proposal. I expect many changes along the way. Suggestions may also be submitted as issues/PRs. I had hoped to have an alpha version of the PDS alongside this proposal, however I didn’t quite get there yet. Hoping to have that in the next couple weeks. The previous thread was here: Early permissioned data proposal draft feedback Changes since then: Responded to a bunch of feed...

2026 · Where We're At

An annual developer survey of the people building on the AT Protocol.

AT Protocol builder manifesto - WIP, comments wanted!

working title: "Why AT Protocol Will Win: A Manifesto for Building in the Atmosphere"

Riot releases end-to-end encryption: get ready to chat securely!

Today is a big day in the Riot world, finally releasing the very first cross-platform implementation of Matrix’s end-to-end encryption!

Polyamory Consent: 2026 Communication Strategies for Boundaries

Discover 2026 strategies for enthusiastic consent in polyamory, with practical scripts, group check-ins, boundary frameworks, and advice on jealousy to build trust in multi-partner relationships.