News and Research articles on Privacy by design

Governing phygital spaces: Human rights by design meets speculative design

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, Israel Democracy Institute
Rachel Aridor Hershkovitz, Israel Democracy Institute
Romi Mikulinsky, Aalto University
Boris Müller, Fachhochschule Potsdam
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Nov 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.4.2048

What happens when legal principles meet speculative storytelling and role-play workshops? Our interdisciplinary team found new ways to govern smart glasses, leading to the ‘ethics of interactions’ framework.

By retracing the stages of development of a 'peer-to-peer cloud' storage service, Francesca Musiani argues that decentralised network architectures are internet governance 'in practice'.