News and Research articles on General Data Protection Regulation

Volume 9, Issue 4

Personal information management systems: a user-centric privacy utopia?

Heleen Janssen, University of Cambridge
Jennifer Cobbe, University of Cambridge
Jatinder Singh, University of Cambridge
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Dec 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.4.1536

PDSs aim to empower users over their data. We explain their limits, and describe why decentralising data processing does not imply decentralisation of power.

KEYWORDS: Personal data stores, Decentralisation, User empowerment, General Data Protection Regulation
Volume 8, Issue 4

Unpacking the “European approach” to tackling challenges of disinformation and political manipulation

Iva Nenadić, University of Zagreb
PUBLISHED ON: 31 Dec 2019 DOI: 10.14763/2019.4.1436

Is the “European approach” an adequate response to the challenges of disinformation and political manipulation, especially in election periods?

KEYWORDS: Data-driven political manipulation, Disinformation, European approach, Code of Practice on Disinformation, General Data Protection Regulation
Volume 8, Issue 2

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.

KEYWORDS: Data access, General Data Protection Regulation, Consumer Data Right, Privacy, Data protection
Volume 7, Issue 3

Collectively exercising the right of access: individual effort, societal effect

René L. P. Mahieu, Delft University of Technology
Hadi Asghari, Delft University of Technology
Michel van Eeten, Delft University of Technology
PUBLISHED ON: 13 Jul 2018 DOI: 10.14763/2018.3.927

Attaining transparency and accountability through the right of access is a struggle; Is there a way forward through using the power of the collective?

KEYWORDS: Access rights, Privacy measurement, General Data Protection Regulation, Data governance