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.
Research articles on GOVERNANCE
The editorial of the third special issue of Internet Policy Review in cooperation with the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is dedicated to the concept of trust. We explore the macro- and micro-levels of trust in the system and trust in the content, and also introduce the six papers selected for this special issue.
Content moderation has exploded as a public and a policy concern, but the debate remains too narrow. Nine experts suggest ways to expand it.
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.
With online platforms in the sights of policymakers and regulators, we examine their power in the integrated platform ecosystem for video advertising.
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.
This paper examines the contradictory legal geographies that domestic courts currently negotiate when dealing with online and transnational child luring.
Facing fragmentation of digital space in the Snowden aftermath, this article considers regulatory models available to avoid the balkanisation of the internet.
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.
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.