PDSs aim to empower users over their data. We explain their limits, and describe why decentralising data processing does not imply decentralisation of power.
Research articles on PRIVACY & SECURITY
Cybersecurity describes technical and social measures needed to protect networked information systems. But its evolution has led to concerns of inappropriate militarisation.
Through empirical methods that walkthrough a typical user experience for acquiring virtual private network (VPN) services, this paper attempts to answer the question of how we come to trust, use and govern VPNs.
This paper provides a unique analysis of cryptoparties and demonstrates the significance of mundane practices for security and privacy.
We examined how news personalisation is communicated through privacy policies of quality and popular media outlets in the Netherlands, Russia and Brazil.
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.
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 …
The internet is a forum for geopolitical struggle as states wield power beyond their terrestrial territorial borders through the extraterritorial geographies of data flows. This exertion of power across multiple jurisdictions, and via the infrastructure of transnational technology companies, creates new challenges for traditional forms of regulatory governance and the protection of human rights.
Australia’s encryption laws reflect a pattern of politically charged, rights-infringing responses to terrorism within a permissive constitutional environment.
Russian ruling elites’ view of Russia as a great power transcends political leadership and ideology, and directs the state’s advancement of a multipolar digital order.