This special issue brings together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the 2017 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference in Tartu, Estonia.
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Given the weakness of consent-dependent agreements in relation to profiling and prediction markets, consumer protection needs improvement.
This article distils from the various (proposals for) platform regulation operational principles that can serve as the basis for productive debate on the subject.
Internet governance bodies agree that improving online security is important, but disagree on what a more secure internet would look like.
This paper is part of Regulating the sharing economy , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Kristofer Erickson and Inge Sørensen. Disclaimer: This study was completed with the support of the German service sector union ver.di. We would like to thank the participating platforms and their communities for the opportunity to
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).
The Russian 'dictatorship-of-the-law' paradigm is all but over: it is deploying online, with potentially harmful consequences for Russia's attempts to attract foreign investments in the internet sector, and for users' rights online.
Cyber warfare
A hawkish call to cyber arms
Monika Ermert reports from the Munich Security Conference, where experts ponder over hybrid and cyber war.
Hacktivists 1.0 were Anonymous mask wearing outsiders. Subsequent generations are made up of insiders who use privacy enhancing technologies to hide their identities, to keep power under control or to disengage.
Digital economy
The clash between internet freedom and the need to tax
Much of our economy is moving online, but who will pay taxes, when virtual is tax exempted or when only some regions earn from the digital businesses lured by nice lax tax regulation or otherwise. Read up on how the struggle for tax and data are intertwined.
