Reproducing the GDPR provided the LGPD with principles that compel firms to innovate in the Brazilian privacy-enhancing technologies market. To rebalance opportunities for Brazilian firms, this paper advocates implementing local content policy for privacy-enhancing technologies.

KEYWORDS: Innovation, GDPR, LGPD

Governing artificial intelligence in the media and communications sector

Jo Pierson, Hasselt University
Aphra Kerr, Maynooth University
Stephen Cory Robinson, Linköping University
Rosanna Fanni, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Valerie Eveline Steinkogler, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Stefania Milan, University of Amsterdam
Giulia Zampedri, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PUBLISHED ON: 21 Feb 2023 DOI: 10.14763/2023.1.1683

The article identifies critical blindspots in current European AI policies and explores the impact of AI technologies in the media and communications sector, based on a novel multi-level analytical framework.

Humour as an online safety issue: Exploring solutions to help platforms better address this form of expression

Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Queensland University of Technology
Louisa Bartolo, Queensland University of Technology
Luke Troynar, Queensland University of Technology
PUBLISHED ON: 25 Jan 2023 DOI: 10.14763/2023.1.1677

The policies and content moderation practices of social media companies are not well equipped to recognise how and when humour harms. All too-often, therefore, platforms take down important harmless humour while they fail to effectively moderate humour that sows division and hate.

Google and Apple together control 99% of the European smartphone operating system market. What are the distinctive European policy and academic contributions to the ongoing global debate on how this new source of market power should be controlled?

Uploaders' perceptions of the German implementation of the EU copyright reform and their preferences for copyright regulation

Steliyana Doseva, Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation
Hannah Schmid-Petri, University of Passau
Jan Schillmöller, Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation
Dirk Heckmann, Technical University of Munich
PUBLISHED ON: 14 Dec 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.4.1674

While the upload filters introduced by the EU copyright reform are being transposed into national law, this study examines how uploaders perceive copyright regulation and what further demands they have.

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