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AI Act

The EU AI Act and the violent logics of border AI

Sarah Fathallah, University of Cambridge

PUBLISHED ON: 6 Jan 2026

As the EU shapes its digital regulatory corpus, migrants are left exposed to the structural violence of AI systems deployed at the border.

CSAM

Drawing the line: When child safety laws lose sight of real children

Jeremy Malcolm, Center for Online Safety and Liberty (COSL)

PUBLISHED ON: 15 Dec 2025

Newly released data reveal how a no-compromise approach to AI-generated and other fictional sexual content depicting children has diverted resources away from prosecuting real child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Drones

Europe wants the sky full of drones – just not like that

Samar Abbas Nawaz, The Arctic University of Norway (UiT)

PUBLISHED ON: 9 Dec 2025

Recent drone sightings should remind policymakers that a more holistic approach – beyond mere aviation safety – is needed to normalise drones for civilian use.

Commons

AI as commons: Why we need community-controlled Artificial Intelligence

Vasilis Kostakis, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)
Aristotle Tympas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

PUBLISHED ON: 8 Dec 2025

AI development is concentrated in corporate hands, but community-controlled alternatives ‒ open, efficient, and democratically governed ‒ are already proving viable.

Digital sovereignty

Data centres or data colonies? Energy, water, and Latin America's sovereignty test

Rodrigo Ardissom de Souza, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)

PUBLISHED ON: 27 Nov 2025

Latin America's data centre boom reveals that digital sovereignty depends less on legal declarations than on states' operational control over energy, water, and exit rights.

Artificial intelligence

From innovation to deployment: How China is reshaping the future of AI governance

Jun Wu, Fudan University

PUBLISHED ON: 14 Oct 2025

China is recasting artificial intelligence as a tool of infrastructure diplomacy, a strategic shift that confronts the innovation-led paradigm and navigates the risks of fragmented global governance.

Digital poverty

Europe can’t end poverty if it ignores digital poverty

Guido Appoldt, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ronald Musizvingoza, United Nations University Institute

PUBLISHED ON: 24 Sep 2025

Europe is losing its war on poverty because it is ignoring the new front: digital poverty.

Digital identity

Deplatformed and disconnected: How big tech platforms are locking Africans out of the digital economy

Chimdi Chukwukere, University of Abuja

PUBLISHED ON: 16 Sep 2025

The struggles of African professionals shut out of LinkedIn reveal how digital identity systems, if poorly designed, can erode rights and opportunities anywhere, even in Europe.

Privacy by design

“By design” principles considered harmful

Jukka Ruohonen, University of Southern Denmark

PUBLISHED ON: 20 Aug 2025

Codifying “by design” principles into policies may lead to contradictions.

Artificial intelligence

Not greenwashing, but still… A closer look at big tech’s 2025 sustainability reports

Thomas Le Goff, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

PUBLISHED ON: 7 Aug 2025

What big tech’s latest sustainability reports say (and don’t say) about the true environmental cost of AI.

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Internet Policy Review is an open access and peer-reviewed journal on internet regulation.

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Inclusive by design? Participatory governance and the future of digital public spaces

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