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.
Research articles on PRIVACY & SECURITY
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.
Operationalisation of communication rights in the context of Finland highlights major challenges that digitalisation poses to democracy.
Attaining transparency and accountability through the right of access is a struggle; Is there a way forward through using the power of the collective?
This special issue brings together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the 2017 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference in Tartu, Estonia.
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.
KEYWORDS:
Right to be forgotten
This paper examines three historical imaginaries associated with encryption, considering how they are intertwined in contemporary policy debates.
Given the weakness of consent-dependent agreements in relation to profiling and prediction markets, consumer protection needs improvement.