When Peiter Zatko joined Twitter as head of security in late 2020 at the urging of founder and then-CEO Jack Dorsey, he was surprised by what he discovered. Twitter, a social network with hundreds of millions of users, "was over a decade behind industry security standards," he later testified.

A talk about bigotry was cancelled amid accusations of reverse discrimination. Whom was the company trying to protect?

Read the transcript of Mozilla's IRL podcast episode, The Tech We Won't Build, from July 18, 2022 (IRL Season 06, Episode 01)

Encryption has never been more important for protection—and civil disobedience.

As states around the world seek to expand their surveillance capabilities and harness the power of data to deliver public services, they are often tempted to use the services of private technology companies – through public-private partnerships (‘PPPs’). These collaborations are taking on a new form, diverging from traditional public procurement relationships and becoming much more co-dependent. The privatisation of public responsibilities requires more scrutiny than ever to ensure human rights ...