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.
News and Research articles on Data protection
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.
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.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Recital 23 brought an obligation to all companies that receive, control or process personal data of European Union (EU) residents to comply with the minimal safeguards stated in European legislation.
As the Covid-19 pandemic expanded across the world, so did the debates on whether fighting this sanitary emergency would require the use of personal data, and on how that would impact pre-established data protection frameworks.
A proposed amendment to the Lithiuanian Electronic Communications Law aims to grant governmental authorities with access to mobile location data.
Complex and possibly irreversible legal initiatives - that normally take years to be debated and responsively shaped - are being implemented overnight.
A young entrepreneur finds herself battling uphill against GDPR enforcement organisations in an effort to bring her AI personal assistant to the market. Can her technological wits outwin the legal shortcuts these organisations have in place?
Algorithmic processing of personal data is challenging the role of consent. Which are the necessary adaptations to maintain this important tool in data protection regulation?
This commentary is part of Data-driven elections, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Colin J. Bennett and David Lyon.
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.
This paper examines data protection policies in Australia and Europe and outlines how both frameworks evoke different notions of citizenship.
Data ethics has gained traction in policy-making. The article presents an analytical investigation of the different dimensions and actors shaping data ethics in European policy-making.
After a process that took more than five years, Serbia finally received a new Law on Personal Data Protection [in Serbian] - adopted by the National Assembly last November. The law closely follows EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), almost to the point of literal translation into Serbian. That was expected, due to Serbia’s EU membership candidacy.
Polish digital rights organisation Panoptykon Foundation filed complaints against Google and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Responses were fired quickly. Here's the reaction to the responses.
Online stores can offer each customer a different price. This study analyses why most people find such online price discrimination unfair and unacceptable, and why they think it should be banned.
There is an increase in the Orwellian nature of schemes and programmes being launched in India, in spite of the absence of concrete privacy and data protection laws. While a major step towards mass surveillance was taken a few years ago in the form of “Aadhaar”, the central and state governments have subsequently adopted schemes which involve collection and processing of voluminous amounts of data.
Multi-sided online platforms such as social networks, search services and trading platforms can benefit society in important ways. This paper examines the competition effects of data portability among these platforms.
Consumer protection law can assist EU data protection law in empowering data subjects whose rights are challenged by big data.
Digital rights blogger Fabian Warislohner takes a critical look at Estonia's fast-track digitalisation strategy and compares it to Germany's track record.