This paper uncovers the risks inherent in facial recognition within law enforcement, exploring multidimensional aspects affecting data protection vs public security within the regulatory frameworks of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Artificial Intelligence Act.
News and Research articles on Data protection
This paper explores how four commonly proposed collective data intermediaries – data trusts, decentralised autonomous organisations, data cooperatives and data unions – have been envisioned and enacted by their proponents.
On the 23 February 2023, the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued a decision against Ediscom S.p.A. (Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, 2023) explicitly referring to “dark patterns”, i.e. online design choices that manipulate users’ decision-making to benefit digital services.
On 16 March 2023 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee and the State Council formally released the plan on reforming Party and state institutions which was endorsed during the annual National People’s Congress in early March.
The use of new technologies, such as location-based information devices, can provide up-to-date and precise information regarding the challenges that older people face while moving around the city, but they pose privacy concerns at the same time.
Smart cities need citizen participation, robust data protection, non-discrimination and AI governance to effectively address the challenges of ever-changing technologies, function creep and political apathy.
GDPR compliance can be hard, but does not have to, as we demonstrate in the context of consent banners and mobile apps.
The data broker industry is a mostly unknown, invisible, pervasive and concerning protagonist of surveillance capitalism that deserves much more public scrutiny.
Data intermediaries entail data governance measures for ensuring that data is only processed as appropriate, giving stakeholders some degree of confidence that their rights and interests are properly respected.
KEYWORDS:
Data intermediaries, Data protection, Data governance, Accountability, Trust, Data commons
The planned sharing of UK patients’ data is controversial. What lessons can be learned for ethical and legal governance of health data?
Feminist theories have extensively debated consent in sexual and political contexts. But what does it mean to consent when we are talking about our data bodies feeding artificial intelligence (AI) systems?
Re-imagining data protection with an Afrofuturist data subject to counter digital racism and reclaim digital humanity.
This editorial introduces ten research articles, which form part of this special issue, exploring feminist data protection.
The UK welfare system relies on gender stereotyping and, increasingly, on surveillance: risking a vicious cycle of categorisation and control
This analysis of digital technologies aimed at supporting survivors of sexual and gender-based violence illustrates how they reaffirm normative whiteness.
What do we mean when we say data collection? This paper enacts a performative and feminist critique of the term and discuss potential alternatives.
This paper process-traces how European policymakers have delegated regulatory responsibilities to private certification and monitoring bodies acting as regulatory intermediaries. It explores how regulators can constrain or incentivise self-regulation that exists in their shadow via intermediaries, instead of using direct modes of regulation.
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.
This paper examines data and privacy governance by four China-based mobile applications and their international versions - including the role of the state. It also highlights the role of platforms in gatekeeping mobile app privacy standards.
This paper examines the ethical and legal issues arising from the closure of a data-rich firms such as Facebook and provides four policy recommendations to mitigate the resulting harms to society.