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
Introduction The digitisation of our societies comes along with a number of challenges and opportunities - the dimension of which are far from being assessed, not to say understood. While the internet allowing easy access of everybody to the general political discourse was for some time understood as a great opportunity for strengthening democracy
Personalisation algorithms and elections: breaking free of the filter bubble
Stefania Milan and Claudio Agosti present the Algorithms Exposed (ALEX) project as well as the browser extension fbtrex.
Legal battle over online behavioural advertising widening
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.
Dream of Californication: welcome to the Californian Consumer Privacy Act
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA ), slated to enter into force on 1 January 2020, borrows some cutting edge ideas from the EU and others’ privacy regimes while also experimenting with new approaches to data privacy. Importantly, the CCPA envisages an online advertisement market in which business are prevented from “ getting high on
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? I think that in 2018 it is pretty obvious that we’re not discussing whether open access is the way to go, but rather how we can ensure
Internet policy politics - A Q&A with Marianne Franklin
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. Internet Policy Review: Marianne, you have been following the work of Internet Policy Review
Facebook shuts the gate after the horse has bolted, and hurts real research in the process
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.