Writing a privacy policy for Iraqi law

Most privacy policies are copied from California. Ours starts with Article 40 of the Iraqi Constitution. Here is why that matters and what it changed.

How a voice note survives a bad network

A voice note leaves a basement in Karrada on one bar of 3G. What has to happen for it to arrive? A tour through queues, codecs and the network we actually have.

Hello, Iraq.

We are a small team in Baghdad building a messenger for the way Iraqis actually talk. This is the first post: what Ashlonk is, what it is not, and what happens next.