This paper examines the contradictory legal geographies that domestic courts currently negotiate when dealing with online and transnational child luring.
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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
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 article identifies factors that could explain the increasing pressure to regulate Québec’s political parties’ uses of digital voter information.
This commentary is part of Data-driven elections , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Colin J. Bennett and David Lyon. Introduction: all roads lead to Victoria, British Columbia As the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, I am entrusted with enforcing the province’s two pieces of privacy legislation –
This paper compares two controversies in social media governance and argues that social media companies’ actions indicate an expanded role for marketing and advertising as arbiters of the public interest in media content delivery.
Agribusinesses are buying into big data for its predictive powers, bypassing farmers and aggregating previously proprietary farming data. Given this power asymmetry, what are the ethics of the use of big data in big agriculture?
This paper examines how various stakeholders in the 2014 EC consultation on copyright attempted to shape the definition of user-generated content and what this means for the reform of copyright in Europe.
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Approval for trade deal with Canada no done deal for European Parliament
Will the Canada-EU Trade Agreement (CETA) fail just like the notorious Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? Despite many positive aspects, the trade deal might fail to get a majority approval in the European Parliament because of the much debated Investor State Dispute Settlement provisions.
Cloud computing provides a large number of advantages to many internet users. Most of the perceived benefits are related to the concept of ubiquity, or the ability to access data from anywhere at any time, regardless of the device used. Yet, these benefits come at a cost. The widespread deployment of cloud computing services is source of growing
