This paper uses qualitative content analysis to determine what type of socio-legal order the Silk Road is, to see whether platforms like the Silk Road indeed have the revolutionary potential proclaimed by some crypto communities.
Research articles on Privacy & Security
This paper analyses the controversial trial run of facial-recognition software at Berlin-Südkreuz, drawing on Science and Technology Studies.
In a future where digital touch has become a normal part of society, who has access to my body and my data?
Personalised political messaging undermines voter autonomy and the electoral process. Use of voter analytics for political communication must be regulated.
The text reviews current technological developments and the challenges they pose for privacy. It provides an overview of the relevant theories of privacy and their recent developments in light of technological changes.
Information and communication technologies allow tax administrations to gather and process large amounts of data in order to individuate tax evaders. However, how to strike a balance between privacy rights and tax compliance?
Ad archives are a novel tool in online advertising governance. They promise significant benefits, but only if their operators address key criticisms.
This special issue brings together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the 2018 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference in Montréal, Canada.
Datafication (the quantification of social life) is a colonial move which perpetuates a legacy of appropriation. But how to regulate this?
People are increasingly concerned that data collectors can use information about them to subtly influence their decision-making—what is often called “online manipulation”. To further efforts at combating such strategies, this paper defines “online manipulation” and explores the harms it threatens.
