Standards impact technology leadership, more so where they precede market launch. European values are therefore important for European technology in ICT markets.
Research articles on INFORMATION & DATA
The automation of the media has inserted new actors in the editorial process. This calls for a reassessment of the reasons why and ways in which policy can create the conditions for an independent media.
How have app stores governed the global app response to the coronavirus pandemic? An exploratory systematic mapping of COVID-19 pandemic response apps.
This research investigates EU member states’ preferences and coalitions in recent negotiations of the Council of the EU related to the digital single market.
PDSs aim to empower users over their data. We explain their limits, and describe why decentralising data processing does not imply decentralisation of power.
This article proposes the concept of platform observability to help systematically study complex algorithmic systems. It sets out three broad principles as guidelines for making platforms more accountable.
This paper is part of Geopolitics, jurisdiction and surveillance, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Monique Mann and Angela Daly. Introduction Since the Snowden revelations in 2013 (see e.g., Lyon, 2014; Lyon, 2015) an ongoing policy issue has been the legitimate scope of surveillance, and the extent to which individuals and groups can assert their fundamental rights, including privacy. There has been a renewed focus on policies regarding access to encrypted communications, which are part of a longer history of the ‘cryptowars’ of the 1990s (see e.g., Koops, 1999). We examine these provisions in the Anglophone ‘Five Eyes’ (FVEY) The FVEY partnership is a comprehensive …
Although the GDPR paves the way for a coordinated EU-wide legal action against data protection infringements, only a reform of private international law rules can enhance the opportunities of data subjects to enforce their rights.
Cyber attacks require distributed deterrence involving private and public actors. Can the classics of international law help?
This paper examines data and privacy governance by four China-based mobile applications and their international versions - including the role of the state. It also highlights the role of platforms in gatekeeping mobile app privacy standards.