But now we have more numbers on the performance declines, thanks to a new report from the Measurement Lab Consortium (M-Lab).

Business relationships between major broadband providers and Internet backbone providers appear to be the cause of major drags on performance from ...

Business relationships between major broadband providers and Internet backbone providers appear to be the cause of major drags on performance from ...

A report out Tuesday on the cost of interconnection fights shows that the problem is the business deals, not technology, and that the consumer pays...

Young voters still believe public officials can drive change; but some believe the ballot box isn't the only way to influence them. In this case, M...

Knight funding helped enable Ranking Digital Rights to launch its pilot study and create my job, but Knight’s people have helped me move from obser...

If the ITU moves to allow telecom-style termination fees for Web traffic, the United Nations agency could damage Internet openness and threaten net...

The time has come for us to decide (and to decide through action, not words): is community technology part of the sector we call civic technology?

It’s still a fairly new issue, because it wasn’t really until the Arab Spring that people started to realize communication technology as a tools of...

It’s “heartening” that the NSA has some privacy protections in place, but “significant concerns” remain, said Robyn Greene, policy counsel at think...

The cost of NSA surveillance.

The choice by Apple and Google to incorporate privacy-as-default features into their products adds a populist element to privacy vs. state security...

Code for America Summit 2014

Code for America Summit 2014

Intelligence agencies around the world are racing to increase their information-gathering and monitoring capabilities, ostensibly in an effort to p...

The aftermath of the Arab uprisings has proved that unfettered internet access does not magically produce prosperity and pluralism – yet in the 21s...

In a statement Robyn Greene, policy counsel with New America's Open Technology Institute, said CISA is "wholly inadequate." "When it comes to cyber...

“Based on these important improvements, a wide range of major technology companies and public interest groups spanning the political spectrum is ea...

Earlier this week, Arizona State University and the New America Foundation announced a joint project, the Future of War. The project combines the i...

At the annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting in Istanbul next week, a multi-stakeholder group of representatives from around the world wil...

All this secrecy—and its recent partial unraveling—has harmed our democracy and our economy. But effective surveillance does not require total secr...

Six public parks in the Los Angeles area are about to get a bit more connected---Echo Park Lake, the Griffith Observatory, Cabrillo Beach, Venice B...