Research articles on INFORMATION & DATA

Re-imagining data protection with an Afrofuturist data subject to counter digital racism and reclaim digital humanity.

The UK welfare system relies on gender stereotyping and, increasingly, on surveillance: risking a vicious cycle of categorisation and control

What do we mean when we say data collection? This paper enacts a performative and feminist critique of the term and discuss potential alternatives.

This paper introduces a socio-technical typology of bias in data-driven machine learning and artificial intelligence systems. It argues that a clear distinction must be made between different concepts of bias in such systems in order to analytically assess and politically critique these systems. By analysing the controversial Austrian “AMS algorithm” as a case study among other examples, this paper defines the following three types of bias: purely technical, socio-technical, and societal.

This article discusses national legislation applicable to disinformation, and the implications for EU policy and fundamental rights.

The extraterritorial application of GDPR does not promote European values. Rather, it evokes wrong expectations about the universality of individual rights.

This paper process-traces how European policymakers have delegated regulatory responsibilities to private certification and monitoring bodies acting as regulatory intermediaries. It explores how regulators can constrain or incentivise self-regulation that exists in their shadow via intermediaries, instead of using direct modes of regulation.

This paper is part of Governing “European values” inside data flows, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Kristina Irion, Mira Burri, Ans Kolk, Stefania Milan. Introduction Governments’ interest in the “datafied society” (Hintz et al., 2018) as an object of policy and regulation is nothing new, with a long-held recognition that governance protocols (policies, ethics frameworks, and regulations) can be used to reshape the technological infrastructure underpinning society and hence its nature (Floridi, 2018; van Dijck & Poell, 2016). However, the widespread adoption of the term “sovereignty”—a concept loaded with legal and political connotations—to describe authority over …