Research articles on GOVERNANCE

Expanding the debate about content moderation: scholarly research agendas for the coming policy debates

Tarleton Gillespie, Microsoft Research
Patricia Aufderheide, American University
Elinor Carmi, University of Liverpool
Ysabel Gerrard, University of Sheffield
Robert Gorwa, University of Oxford
Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Queensland University of Technology
Sarah T. Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles
Aram Sinnreich, American University
Sarah Myers West, New York University
PUBLISHED ON: 21 Oct 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.4.1512

Content moderation has exploded as a public and a policy concern, but the debate remains too narrow. Nine experts suggest ways to expand it.

There’s a place for us? The Digital Agenda Committee and internet policy in the German Bundestag

Julia Schwanholz, Georg-August University
Tobias Jakobi, Georg-August University
PUBLISHED ON: 15 Oct 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.4.1509

Interested in public policy and parliamentary research? Learn about the new digital committee, data retention law making and the emergence of internet policy in Germany.

Anchoring the need to revise cross-border access to e-evidence

Sergi Vazquez Maymir, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Sep 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.3.1495

The percentages and figures used in the impact assessment accompanying the European Commission’s e-evidence package strongly influence the analysis of the problem and limit the assessment of the problem of cross-border access to e-evidence to technical and efficiency considerations.

Transnational collective actions for cross-border data protection violations

Federica Casarosa, European University Institute
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Sep 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.3.1498

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.

Regulatory arbitrage and transnational surveillance: Australia’s extraterritorial assistance to access encrypted communications

Monique Mann, Deakin University
Angela Daly, University of Strathclyde
Adam Molnar, University of Waterloo
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Sep 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.3.1499

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 …