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This commentary is part of Data-driven elections , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Colin J. Bennett and David Lyon. Introduction: all roads lead to Victoria, British Columbia As the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, I am entrusted with enforcing the province’s two pieces of privacy legislation –

Focusing on whether data-intensive technologies used in political campaigning are accurate and effective misses the point about their larger role in politics. This piece briefly addresses the popular question of “Does it work?” and suggests a series of questions and provocations that aim to more holistically capture the extent of tech-led

More and more researchers argue that online technologies manipulate human users and, therefore, undermine their autonomy. This view of online technology, however, fails conceptually.

While conducting research on YouTube’s algorithms, three researchers discovered that YouTube’s recommendations had created a community of sexually suggestive channels. When they shared their findings with The New York Times, YouTube implemented changes, and US lawmakers demanded consequences.

Stefania Milan and Claudio Agosti present the Algorithms Exposed (ALEX) project as well as the browser extension fbtrex.

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

A short Q&A with researchers Tom Dobber and Natali Helberger.

Two months after military coup attempt in Turkey shocked the world, senior internet researchers Melih Kırlıdoğ and Mustafa Akgül find counter-intuitive evidence on the role the internet played.

eGovernment researcher Christian Djeffal draws conclusions on a chatbot that is proving useful to citizens… and turning eGovernment on its head.