Targeted political advertising can potentially exclude voter segments from important political information, and undermine the democratic process
News and Research articles on Norway
This paper discusses how online political micro-targeting is regulated in Europe, from the perspective of data protection law, freedom of expression, and political advertising rules.
Given the weakness of consent-dependent agreements in relation to profiling and prediction markets, consumer protection needs improvement.
Virtual technologies make it possible for private individuals to compete with traditional taxis. How does this affect society and welfare?
How should the EU regulate the expanding role of for-profit vendors in school operations making use of big data technologies?
In the last two decades, the industry has deployed endlessly the rhetoric of the “digital threat” in order to demand harsher measures against digital piracy. This paper shows that the “digital threat” discourse is based on shaky grounds.
Short overview by reporter Monika Ermert on the many pending and newly announced surveillance cases before the European Court of Human Rights, as well as national courts.
Despite a flurry of commitments, real open data progress seems slow, according to a new census. And then, there are governments excelling in both open and secret data.