Monika Ermert
Institution
Heise, Intellectual Property Watch, VDI-Nachrichten
Position
Journalist
Country
Germany
Information
Monika Ermert has been working as a freelance journalist for 20 years. She covers scientific topics as well as media politics. Since 1999, Monika Ermert intensified her reporting on technology and standardisation of the internet while analysing attempts to bring the internet under state control. Topics that she covers include self-regulation online, management of internet domain names and IP addresses as well as the evolution of bodies such as the United Nations Internet Governance Forum. Among Monika Ermert’s regular outlets are the Internet Policy Review, Heise, the Washington Internet Daily and Intellectual Property Watch. In her capacity of sinologist, she has performed research about the Chinese government’s information policy.
Articles by this author
- ICANN taking next steps to model internet self-governance
- Europe: queue of complaints against snooping laws grows by the month
- Post-Snowden cryptography and network security
- YouTube blocking in Turkey, another violation of fundamental rights
- Max Schrems' boomerang hits Europe
- Net neutrality, too controversial for Sofia
- Jurisdiction on the net
- Tough call: avoiding internet governance from becoming FIFA-like
- A hawkish call to cyber arms
- Decisive report on surveillance shakes up debate in Europe
- The World Economic Forum talks internet governance. Who listens?
- Happy hacking at the Chaos Communication Congress
- Internet community takes a hard end-of-2014 look at IANA
- First court hearing of broadcasters and Adblock Plus
- Many EU countries still need to deliver on open data
- EU trade and its impact on internet policy
- Brazil-Portugal submarine cable no panacea
- As tricky top level domains still remain to be tackled, ICANN treks on
- Trials and tribulations of changing oversight of core internet infrastructure
- New EU Commissioner promises copyright reform, but can he deliver?
- Approval for trade deal with Canada no done deal for European Parliament
- Internet freedom in Turkey: “It just keeps getting worse and worse”
- When internet access gives net neutrality a beating
- German constitutional judge expresses concerns about the “right to be forgotten” decision
- UN High Commissioner claims privacy is a human right, but hopes dwindle on surveillance reform
- Tuning old DSL in Germany: the race is on
- The clash between internet freedom and the need to tax
- Upcoming court cases in Europe challenge spying without borders
- Vodafone and the number game
- Next generation Whois: a mega-directory of domain registrant data
- Organisers of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance hope to draw on Brazil’s lessons
- US Communications Commission decision to fuel further fight in the EU
- Internet engineers now avidly reviewing standards and cryptography
- Users still waiting for a break-through for bitcoin debit and credit cards
- Putting up walls around Finland's cyberspace
- Does Europe hate libraries?
- World internet cup in Brazil - a review
- Is there a policy answer to Heartbleed?
- European Court of Justice calls data retention directive off
- European operators to be fined for offering low grade internet connection
- After US stewardship: who should govern the internet’s root zone?
- European Parliament decides for single data protection standard
- Central internet resources could be privatised
- German court tells YouTube to change wording on filtering notices
- Sobering figures for new Top Level Domains
- President signs Turkish draconian internet law
- Criminal complaint filed in aftermath of security conference
- European ministers largely agree on international aspects of future data protection regulation, other issues unsolved
- EU and US discuss divergent recommendations on mass surveillance
- Advocate General: EU Data Retention Directive unconstitutional
- Germany's new government to move forward with a mixed digital agenda
- Open government data emerging, trust in government declining
- Internet: Finland running ahead on access and democracy
- European Commission sets out to tame privacy issues in the cloud
- Technical community debates over taking back the internet
- What the new domain names could mean
- IGF Bali: pervasive surveillance, no pervasive access
- EU data protection: bumpy piece of road ahead
- The Bali IGF: surveillance, surveillance, surveillance
- Of light bulbs and business models: IPv6 as a self-experiment
- Data protection marathon in Europe
- Fragmentation of the net ahead?
- Assembly in Europe requests protection for whistle-blowers
- Brazil to lead the governance of the internet
- Europe pushes rewind button on net neutrality
- User-generated content in a legal vacuum
- Slovenia out of luck as pioneers out for lunch
- No European net neutrality legislation after all
- Policy innovation: small countries with big ideas
- IETF – Berlin meeting did not overlook mass surveillance
- Russia: controversial anti-piracy law comes into force
- Internet Governance Forum: poor stepchild in trouble
- Joint forces for a cloud computing privacy manual
- "Fan subbing" a copyright crime?
- Domain name decision-maker growing into a big machine
- Hard times for open data
- EU Data retention might not be proportional to risks
- EU Data Retention Directive finally before European Court of Justice
- Internet stakeholders discuss possible reactions to spying programme
- A historic day in Marrakesh: WIPO passes first global copyright exemption
- EuroDIG discusses variants for EU net neutrality rule
- Fourth generation networks in Europe: a rollout at different speeds
- PRISM: No surprise to those who wanted to know
- Trade partnership gets nod from majority in European Parliament
- Apple in Germany: the potentially long-lasting impact of a short judgment
- Dispute over future IP address policy – stop managing scarcity?
- 5th World Telecom Policy Forum – stepping stone to changes in the internet governance arena?
- Reallocation of spectrum in Europe too slow, too inefficient?
- Managed services – a net neutrality trap?