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In reaction to the Cambridge Analytica controversy, Facebook has recently announced a substantial tightening of access restrictions to the APIs of Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms it owns. Researchers at leading international research organisations are deeply concerned about collateral impacts of the new API access rules. Here is why.

This essay argues that we have anxieties about micro-targeting because we have anxieties about democracy itself.

KEYWORDS: Democracy, Elections, Micro-targeting

This paper discusses resolution of the contested meanings of inclusiveness, accountability and transparency in trade policymaking.

KEYWORDS: Trade, Internet governance, Civil society

While the internet routing system serves as kind of a nervous system, it is far from automated. Still to this day, network engineers turn to chat rooms and mailing lists to manufacture internet connectivity.

Cyberspace governance struggles with three accountability challenges, the problem of many hands, the profusion of issue areas, as well as the hybridity and malleability of institutional arrangements. In order to address and mitigate these challenges, accountability relationships need to be consciously reframed and discursively constructed.

KEYWORDS: Cyber security, Governance, Policy challenges

The campaign against Israel’s biometric database demonstrates how civil society can advocate for privacy even when “privacy is dead”.

KEYWORDS: Privacy, Government surveillance, Biometric

The importance of personal data for the digital economy accentuates a problematic information asymmetry between consumers and the data-driven market players. An increased consumer protection would have to deal with the lack of transparency of this black-box setup and a flawed use of consent as regulatory model. The consumer protection needs to be

The rapid development of the Internet of Things - or IoT - affects the protection of privacy in profound ways. Eduardo Magrani argues in favour of a shift from privacy protection to the idea a “right to non-tracking”.

Internet users need a cyber security mindset, argues William H. Dutton. This paper seeks to explain the concept of a security ‘mindset’ and its social significance.

KEYWORDS: Cyber security, Cybersecurity, Security

Do ICANN’s policies and operations have an impact on human rights? Civil society engagement in the organisation seeks to inscribe human rights in internet infrastructure.

KEYWORDS: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Civil society, Human rights

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Facebook shuts the gate after the horse has bolted, and hurts real research in the process

Micro-targeting, the quantified persuasion

Contested meanings of inclusiveness, accountability and transparency in trade policymaking

When internet interconnection trouble occurs, immediate coordination kicks in

Accountability challenges confronting cyberspace governance

The Israeli Digital Rights Movement's campaign for privacy

The quantified consumer: blind, non-informed and manipulated?

The emergence of the Internet of Anonymous Things (AnIoT)

Fostering a cyber security mindset

Coding and encoding rights in internet infrastructure

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