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.
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Net neutrality consultations that tap into networked publics rest on a thin version of participation that maintains existing inequality.
Stefania Milan and Claudio Agosti present the Algorithms Exposed (ALEX) project as well as the browser extension fbtrex.
The countering of terrorism propaganda online, through private companies, may little by little kill our right to freedom of expression.
This article distils from the various (proposals for) platform regulation operational principles that can serve as the basis for productive debate on the subject.
The author provides an overview of the legal and cultural discourse surrounding pornography in the European Union member state of Bulgaria, in times of 'new digital realities'.
On 6 July, the European Parliament voted to adopt the Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (the NIS Directive). Cyber security researcher Hannfried Leisterer conducted an interview with Member of European Parliament Andreas Schwab, rapporteur for the NIS Directive.
How does the (dis)empowering surveillance practice of social sorting using big data impact on the notion of borders in Europe?
Contrary to expectations of a “net empowerment”, net neutrality debates on Twitter show that established political and media actors still play important roles.
The European Court of Human Rights on 1 December ruled that the blanket blocking of YouTube by Turkish authorities violated the right to freedom of information. Will Turkey comply with the court's decision?
The European Data Governance Forum taking place this week galvanised two core ethical principles, reports Francesca Musiani.
European citizens seem to be skeptical about the EU trade policy. Can a new Trade Commissioner do anything to change that?
Copyright reform in the EU has been elusive for years. Now a new Commissioner coming from a quite different field of expertise has the mandate to cut the Gordian knot. Yet, experts like Monica Horten doubt that this will ever happen. This is why.
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.