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?
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How should the EU regulate the expanding role of for-profit vendors in school operations making use of big data technologies?
Personalised news websites can have serious implications for democracy, but little is known about the extent and effects of personalisation.
Digital rights blogger Fabian Warislohner takes a critical look at Estonia's fast-track digitalisation strategy and compares it to Germany's track record.
Medical insurance companies, doctors and medical researchers face-off over the increasing use of big data in healthcare. Here is why.
While intermediary liability is becoming an issue of increasing importance in internet governance discussions, little is being made at the institutional level to minimise conflicts across jurisdictions and ensure the compliance of intermediary liability laws with fundamental rights and the freedom to innovate.
Contrary to expectations of a “net empowerment”, net neutrality debates on Twitter show that established political and media actors still play important roles.
One multi-stakeholder process is not like another, but how can we distinguish those that promote meaningful inclusion from those that don't?
Europe’s pending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) threatens free expression and access to information on the internet, argues scholar Daphne Keller in the last of six posts.
Fifth of a series of posts about the pending EU General Data Protection Regulation, and its consequences for intermediaries and user speech online.
As the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation seems to approach fast, the Court of Justice of the European Union firmly asserts the fundamental rights dimension of EU personal data protection law.
This national case may influence how other European Data Protection Authorities and courts decide on internet tracking issues.
Fourth of a series of posts about the pending EU General Data Protection Regulation, and its consequences for intermediaries and user speech online.
The Russian 'dictatorship-of-the-law' paradigm is all but over: it is deploying online, with potentially harmful consequences for Russia's attempts to attract foreign investments in the internet sector, and for users' rights online.
Europe could become the world’s leading trusted cloud region, says cloud computing researcher Kristina Irion. This is why.
First of a series of posts about the pending EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and its consequences for intermediaries and user speech online.
The Safe Harbour Agreement between the EU and the US has been under fire for years. A landmark judgement by the European Court of Justice on 6 October not only invalidates the agreement. It boomerangs back to Europe in big ways.
Does competiton law apply to search engines and social networks? The paper maintains that existing competition concepts are flexible enough to be adequately applied to these internet services.
This article examines the stance of the European Union vis-à-vis internet services company Google in two controversial instances: the ‘right to be forgotten’ and the implementation of EU competition rules.
Leadership in the net neutrality file will not come from Europe... or will it?