This op-ed explores the malleable nature of power and authority in internet and blockchain technologies.
Can an algorithm fire you? Data rights of workers need to take centre place in the future of work debates. If they are not sufficiently protected, we might have to make rules more specific to the workplace.
After a process that took more than five years, Serbia finally received a new Law on Personal Data Protection [in Serbian] - adopted by the National Assembly last November. The law closely follows EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), almost to the point of literal translation into Serbian. That was expected, due to Serbia’s EU membership candidacy.
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Stefania Milan and Claudio Agosti present the Algorithms Exposed (ALEX) project as well as the browser extension fbtrex.
Polish digital rights organisation Panoptykon Foundation filed complaints against Google and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Responses were fired quickly. Here's the reaction to the responses.
Christina, you’ve been an editor at an open access journal yourself and are now spearheading open access at Freie Universität Berlin. We have a candid and naive question for you: what does open access mean in 2018?
Marianne Franklin is Professor of Global Media & Politics, convenor of the MA in Global Media and Transnational Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. We interviewed her in advance of the five year anniversary celebration of our journal.
In reaction to the Cambridge Analytica controversy, Facebook has recently announced a substantial tightening of access restrictions to the APIs of Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms it owns. Researchers at leading international research organisations are deeply concerned about collateral impacts of the new API access rules. Here is why.