Research articles on Privacy & Security

Navigating vulnerability markets and bug bounty programs: A public policy perspective

Aviram Zrahia, Tel Aviv University
PUBLISHED ON: 15 Feb 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.1.1740

This paper explores the economics of software vulnerabilities, evaluates three policy alternatives for vulnerability discovery and disclosure and argues that bug bounty programs, which leverage two-sided digital market platforms to connect organisations and ethical hackers, yield the highest effectiveness, legality and trustworthiness impacts.

An analysis of the EU data protection legislation and the AI Act proposal to assess, in light of the principle of proportionality, whether or not law enforcement authorities should be prohibited from using these technologies in "real time".

The grey-zones of public-private surveillance: Policy tendencies of facial recognition for public security in Brazilian cities

André Ramiro, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Luã Cruz, State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
PUBLISHED ON: 31 Mar 2023 DOI: 10.14763/2023.1.1705

The article explores the regulatory “grey zones” in the deployment of facial recognition (FRT) in policing in Brazil, and the policy and civic responses to them.

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