News and Research articles on Data access

Can we fix access to platform data? Europe’s Digital Services Act and the long quest for platform accountability and transparency

Svea Windwehr, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte/Society for Civil Rights
Joschka Selinger, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte/ Society for Civil Rights

PUBLISHED ON: 27 Mar 2024

From negative impacts on teenagers’ mental health to the abuse of data collection for political microtargeting and potentially abetting genocide against the Rohingya: in the past decade, online platforms like In

Citizen or consumer? Contrasting Australia and Europe’s data protection policies

James Meese, University of Technology Sydney
Punit Jagasia, University of Technology Sydney
James Arvanitakis, Western Sydney University
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jun 2019 DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1409

This paper examines data protection policies in Australia and Europe and outlines how both frameworks evoke different notions of citizenship.