News and Research articles on EuropeThis op-ed looks at Australia and asks whether Europeans need to worry about social media blocking access to news content.
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?
The COVID-19 pandemic represents the most urgent situation in relation to both disinformation and misinformation since the establishment of European Union’s 2018 codes of practice on disinformation. Pressure to change the regulatory framework is growing.
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?
This article looks at the basis for use- or content-related takedown of domain names in the terms of services of 30 European country-code top-level domain names.
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.
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.
Recent case-law of the European Court of Justice has substantially widened the notion of “data controller" in unclear and potentially onerous ways for a range of actors involved in personal data processing. This has worrying implications for data subjects who may be characterised as controllers, and for emergent decentralised and privacy protective technologies.
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.
Since being first developed through the case law of the European Court of Justice, the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF) has rapidly diffused beyond its European origins: in Latin America for instance. This paper documents the wide spectrum of interpretations the RTBF has had across countries and data protection authorities.
Given the weakness of consent-dependent agreements in relation to profiling and prediction markets, consumer protection needs improvement.
Abbreviated version of a speech delivered by the Member of the European Partiament Sophie in ‘t Veld in Amsterdam in May 2017 to Data & Democracy, a conference on political micro-targeting.
This study examines the conditions under which political behavioural targeting occurs in multi-party democracies, and explains differences between parties.
A short Q&A with researchers Tom Dobber and Natali Helberger.
Today's struggles for human rights in the digital age would greatly benefit from a closer look at the past.
Referring to the television set, reseachers Kristina Irion and Natali Helberger argue that the CIA targeting of "our trusted friend in the living room" is yet another wake up call to European policymakers on privacy and confidentiality.
Despite criticism, this charter "is unique in reaching out to engage with much broader audiences than any other digital charter did before," say digital policy advisers von Weizsäcker and Schräpel.
Turkey's strategy of repressing opposing voices in the aftermath of the failed coup of 15 July 2016 has transformed from surveilling perceived enemies and repressing specific digital content to arresting and silencing anyone who has been classified as a threat to Erdoğan's position of power.
Agribusinesses are buying into big data for its predictive powers, bypassing farmers and aggregating previously proprietary farming data. Given this power asymmetry, what are the ethics of the use of big data in big agriculture?
How does the (dis)empowering surveillance practice of social sorting using big data impact on the notion of borders in Europe?