Emily Taylor

We should care about low levels of diversity in the professional developer workforce because technology is creeping insidiously into every aspect of our lives and is even increasingly making decisions for us. Improving diversity and inclusion in these problematic areas, however, will require taki…

The “normal” that U.S. President Joe Biden exuded throughout his recent European trip felt like a relief after the past four years. For cyber-watchers, the tour marked the sector’s definitive transition into primetime, up there as a major international threat alongside climate c…

Trusted DNS data, or the personal registration data relating to owners of domain names or websites, is an integral part of tackling cybercrime and protecting intellectual property rights online. Yet policy discussions over these issues give a fraction of the attention to the domain name syst…

The recent breach of the software company Kaseya is the latest installment in the wearying litany of colossal cyberattacks carried out with seeming impunity. The attacks highlight systemic weaknesses in the international system that, absent improvements in international cooperation, cybercri…

As the EU continues consultations to turn its draft Digital Services Act into law, France appears to have jumped the gun and enacted its own version of the proposed legislation. At the heart of this spat are tensions between EU member states and the commission on how to regulate online speech and Bi…

Last Friday, Apple announced that it was implementing measures to combat the distribution of child sexual abuse media on its services. The move surprised commentators in both the tech and human rights communities, and there was a predictable torrent of criticism from both ends of the policy spectrum…

In the pantheon of state-led cyber operations, Russia has historically led when it comes to disinformation and sowing social discord, while China was traditionally associated with intellectual property theft. There are signs that is changing, though, with China reportedly stepping up its disinformat…

Until now, technology has come for the lower-paid, repetitive jobs, hollowing out workforces and prospects for a vast segment of the population, and creating political polarization. With AI, many fear, it will now be the turn of the professional classes—and not just authors, artists and compos…

Editor’s note: This is Emily Taylor’s final weekly column. We’d like to thank her for her engaging and compelling coverage of tech issues over the past seven months, and we’re thrilled that she will continue to be a regular WPR contributor. The world premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 10, or Beethoven X, which was completed by artificial intelligence, came and went earlier this month with barely a ripple. At a technical level, the achievement is extraordinary, and the music that res…

Liberal democracies like the US and UK are considering bans on TikTok over national security and data collection concerns.