Internet companies are conduits through which states can exercise their authority beyond their borders. As Chinese companies such as Huawei become more commercially dominant, they threaten the geopolitical power of the US.
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This paper analyses social media blocking in Brazil, as a consequence of "regulatory disruption".
Attaining transparency and accountability through the right of access is a struggle; Is there a way forward through using the power of the collective?
There is an increase in the Orwellian nature of schemes and programmes being launched in India, in spite of the absence of concrete privacy and data protection laws. While a major step towards mass surveillance was taken a few years ago in the form of “Aadhaar”, the central and state governments have subsequently adopted schemes which involve
This paper provides qualitative analysis of Google’s and Microsoft’s policies and examines case studies to enhance understanding about the privacy role of information intermediaries in self-regulatory arrangements.
Openness, inclusion and empowerment – how do these buzzwords determine the directions of access policy?
The convergence of media markets and the emergence of video-sharing platforms may make the existing regulative tradition obsolete. This essay demonstrates an emergent need for regulatory convergence on European Union’s Audiovisual Media Service Directive (AVMSD).
Consumer protection law can assist EU data protection law in empowering data subjects whose rights are challenged by big data.
As negotiations progress over the EU-US free-trade agreement TTIP, it is natural that somebody will propose addressing privacy differences through trade. But several features of free trade agreements make negotiating data protection in the trade regime a very bad idea for the EU.
Addressing the right to privacy in 2015
Don’t let the legal and legitimate pursuit of privacy be marginalised or criminalised, argues Becky Kazansky of the Tactical Technology Collective.