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A young entrepreneur finds herself battling uphill against GDPR enforcement organisations in an effort to bring her AI personal assistant to the market. Can her technological wits outwin the legal shortcuts these organisations have in place?
Once upon a time, a machine began telling us the stories of our lives… and humanity lived happily ever after.
In a future where digital touch has become a normal part of society, who has access to my body and my data?
Who will own the smart things smart things create?
Algorithmic processing of personal data is challenging the role of consent. Which are the necessary adaptations to maintain this important tool in data protection regulation?
This article looks at the basis for use- or content-related takedown of domain names in the terms of services of 30 European country-code top-level domain names.
Management of the internet by the principle of the multistakeholder governance model has survived attempts of replacing it with inter-government management. What additional principles are useful to guide global internet governance and enhance ICANN’s legitimacy, seen in light of recent challenges? Are the disagreements over global internet governance also about diverging understandings of the goals in internet governance?
In the wake of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, it is timely to review the state of the debate about the impact of data-driven elections and to identify key questions that require academic research and regulatory response. The papers in this collection, by some of the world’s most prominent elections researchers, offer that assessment.
Discussing three factors that characterise the activities of political campaigners, this article demonstrates variations in who is using data in campaigns, what the sources of campaign data are, and how data informs communication.