Research articles on INFORMATION & DATA

People are increasingly concerned that data collectors can use information about them to subtly influence their decision-making—what is often called “online manipulation”. To further efforts at combating such strategies, this paper defines “online manipulation” and explores the harms it threatens.

This paper examines data protection policies in Australia and Europe and outlines how both frameworks evoke different notions of citizenship.

Data ethics has gained traction in policy-making. The article presents an analytical investigation of the different dimensions and actors shaping data ethics in European policy-making.

How do we construct and deliver data privacy rights? We discuss two recent Australian initiatives on regulation of digital platforms and a new consumer data right.

Online stores can offer each customer a different price. This study analyses why most people find such online price discrimination unfair and unacceptable, and why they think it should be banned.

Attaining transparency and accountability through the right of access is a struggle; Is there a way forward through using the power of the collective?

Since being first developed through the case law of the European Court of Justice, the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF) has rapidly diffused beyond its European origins: in Latin America for instance. This paper documents the wide spectrum of interpretations the RTBF has had across countries and data protection authorities.

This paper analyses the selection, dissemination, and framing of media messages in day-to-day politics topic communities on Twitter

Given the weakness of consent-dependent agreements in relation to profiling and prediction markets, consumer protection needs improvement.