This paper explores how four commonly proposed collective data intermediaries – data trusts, decentralised autonomous organisations, data cooperatives and data unions – have been envisioned and enacted by their proponents.
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News media discourses on datafication and automation have become more sensitive to data risks, but their complexity is a challenge for informing lay audiences about root causes and solutions.
The use of new technologies, such as location-based information devices, can provide up-to-date and precise information regarding the challenges that older people face while moving around the city, but they pose privacy concerns at the same time.
European smart city technology development suffers from one-sided inputs and high compliance costs. Due to this developers may look into markets with lower standards for human rights compliance.
This article critically examines how three AI initiatives articulate corporate responsibility for human rights regarding long-term risks posed by smart city AI systems.
Smart cities need citizen participation, robust data protection, non-discrimination and AI governance to effectively address the challenges of ever-changing technologies, function creep and political apathy.
Is public concern for political microtargeting addressed on empirical grounds?
This article examines epistemic uncertainty about the nature and extent of fake accounts on social media and the implications therein.
The data broker industry is a mostly unknown, invisible, pervasive and concerning protagonist of surveillance capitalism that deserves much more public scrutiny.
The term independently-hosted web publishing refers to websites that have been made available online through infrastructure primarily controlled by the website’s owners, enabling decentralisation.