Some platforms become systemically relevant in a crisis, so we need regulation that takes this into account before and during the next crisis.

The European Commission recently released its first review of two years of application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). René Mahieu and Jef Ausloos do not agree with the largely positive self-assessment and explain their main points of contention by summarising their own submission to the Commission.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Recital 23 brought an obligation to all companies that receive, control or process personal data of European Union (EU) residents to comply with the minimal safeguards stated in European legislation. One of the main issues is the fact that companies that are not based in the EU, which receive, store

Since Twitter labelled a tweet by Donald Trump as ‘potentially misleading’ and indicated that it was fact-checking the statement made, the US President signed an ‘ Executive Order'. Amélie Heldt finds that far from being new, the situation illustrates how torn we are when it comes to intermediary immunity or rather liability.

This commentary is part of Digital inclusion and data literacy , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Elinor Carmi and Simeon J. Yates. At the Carnegie UK Trust, a charitable foundation based in Scotland and operating across the UK and Ireland, we have been working for more than 100 years to improve well-being for individuals

This commentary is part of Digital inclusion and data literacy , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Elinor Carmi and Simeon J. Yates. A particularly useful type of data literacy, instrumental for civic participation, for the ability to hold governments accountable, and to monitor policy implementation, as well as the

This commentary is part of Digital inclusion and data literacy , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Elinor Carmi and Simeon J. Yates. Note from the author When I sat down to write the following commentary in February 2020 COVID-19 had not yet taken hold across UK, as it had done in China and other areas of East Asia. However

As the Covid-19 pandemic expanded across the world, so did the debates on whether fighting this sanitary emergency would require the use of personal data, and on how that would impact pre-established data protection frameworks. In Brazil , these concerns first came to light with the announcement of agreements between government and telco companies

Miglė Petkevičienė -- lawyer turned part-time home-teacher during the Covid-19 -- waives a privacy report card and fills it out for Lithuania. Would your country pass the test?

The "Enabling act” passed by the Hungarian parliament on 30 March 2020 empowered the Hungarian government with uncontrolled opportunity to rule by decrees. The act also amended the criminal code. The new rules are suitable to limit free and critical reporting about governmental measures.