This editorial introduces ten research articles, which form part of this special issue, exploring feminist data protection.
This article explains how copyright law and content moderation undermine the incentive for mashup producers to create mashup expressions.
This article shows how personalisation may exploit vulnerabilities of consumers and that EU consumer law contains significant barriers to effectively address such exploitation.
This article discusses national legislation applicable to disinformation, and the implications for EU policy and fundamental rights.
This article examines the policy dynamics of the first internet exchange point (IXP) in a country with a low level of competition in the global South.
This editorial introduces ten research articles, which form part of this special issue, exploring the governance of “European values” inside data flows.
This paper is part of Governing “European values” inside data flows, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Kristina Irion, Mira Burri, Ans Kolk, Stefania Milan. Introduction Governments’ interest in the “datafied society” (Hintz et al., 2018) as an object of policy and regulation is nothing new, with a long-held recognition that governance protocols (policies, ethics frameworks, and regulations) can be used to reshape the technological infrastructure underpinning society and hence its nature (Floridi, 2018; van Dijck & Poell, 2016). However, the widespread adoption of the term “sovereignty”—a concept loaded with legal and political connotations—to describe authority over …
The extraterritorial application of GDPR does not promote European values. Rather, it evokes wrong expectations about the universality of individual rights.
In this article, I propose a distinction between individual harm, collective harm and societal harm caused by artificial intelligence (AI), and focus particularly on the latter. By listing examples and identifying concerns, I provide a conceptualisation of AI’s societal harm so as to better enable its identification and mitigation. Drawing on an analogy with environmental law, which also aims to protect an interest affecting society at large, I propose governance mechanisms that EU policymakers should consider to counter AI’s societal harm.
Standards impact technology leadership, more so where they precede market launch. European values are therefore important for European technology in ICT markets.