The article explores the regulatory “grey zones” in the deployment of facial recognition (FRT) in policing in Brazil, and the policy and civic responses to them.
News and Research articles on Privacy
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.
The data broker industry is a mostly unknown, invisible, pervasive and concerning protagonist of surveillance capitalism that deserves much more public scrutiny.
Cypherpunk refers to social movements, individuals, institutions, technologies, and political actions that, with a decentralised approach, defend, support, offer, code, or rely on strong encryption systems in order to re-shape social, political, or economic asymmetries.
Has the GDPR changed privacy in apps? We study how third-party tracking—a common privacy threat—has changed since the GDPR was introduced.
This editorial introduces ten research articles, which form part of this special issue, exploring feminist data protection.
What do we mean when we say data collection? This paper enacts a performative and feminist critique of the term and discuss potential alternatives.
The extraterritorial application of GDPR does not promote European values. Rather, it evokes wrong expectations about the universality of individual rights.
Standards impact technology leadership, more so where they precede market launch. European values are therefore important for European technology in ICT markets.
Through empirical methods that walkthrough a typical user experience for acquiring virtual private network (VPN) services, this paper attempts to answer the question of how we come to trust, use and govern VPNs.
This paper provides a unique analysis of cryptoparties and demonstrates the significance of mundane practices for security and privacy.
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.
Miglė Petkevičienė -- lawyer turned part-time home-teacher during the Covid-19 -- waives a privacy report card and fills it out for Lithuania. Would your country pass the test?
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.
The Covid-19 pandemic is challenging public health, economic and social life across Europe. Yet aspiring authoritarians are living a dream. Pandemic is a perfect excuse to interpret basic rights at will.
In a future where digital touch has become a normal part of society, who has access to my body and my data?
Law professor Niva Elkin-Koren on the adequate balance between preserving the public’s health and protecting individual rights in time of the pandemic.
This commentary is part of Data-driven elections, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Colin J. Bennett and David Lyon.