News and Research articles on Privacy International

Volume 9, Issue 3

Geopolitics, jurisdiction and surveillance

Monique Mann, Deakin University
Angela Daly, University of Strathclyde
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Sep 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.3.1501

The internet is a forum for geopolitical struggle as states wield power beyond their terrestrial territorial borders through the extraterritorial geographies of data flows. This exertion of power across multiple jurisdictions, and via the infrastructure of transnational technology companies, creates new challenges for traditional forms of regulatory governance and the protection of human rights.

KEYWORDS: Surveillance, Power, Jurisdiction
Data protection
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Harnessing the collective potential of GDPR access rights: towards an ecology of transparency

René L. P. Mahieu, Delft University of Technology
Jef Ausloos, University of Amsterdam

PUBLISHED ON: 6 Jul 2020

The European Commission recently released its first review of two years of application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). René Mahieu and Jef Ausloos do not agree with the largely positive self-assessment and explain their main points of contention by summarising their own submission to the Commission.

Transparency
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Vodafone and the number game

Monika Ermert, Heise, Intellectual Property Watch, VDI-Nachrichten

PUBLISHED ON: 25 Jun 2014

Early this month, the mobile and internet operator Vodafone released a report putting figures on data disclosures made to governments. That's a first but can it be called real transparency?