The data broker industry is a mostly unknown, invisible, pervasive and concerning protagonist of surveillance capitalism that deserves much more public scrutiny.
News and Research articles on Data protection
Data intermediaries entail data governance measures for ensuring that data is only processed as appropriate, giving stakeholders some degree of confidence that their rights and interests are properly respected.
The planned sharing of UK patients’ data is controversial. What lessons can be learned for ethical and legal governance of health data?
Feminist theories have extensively debated consent in sexual and political contexts. But what does it mean to consent when we are talking about our data bodies feeding artificial intelligence (AI) systems?
Re-imagining data protection with an Afrofuturist data subject to counter digital racism and reclaim digital humanity.
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 UK welfare system relies on gender stereotyping and, increasingly, on surveillance: risking a vicious cycle of categorisation and control
This analysis of digital technologies aimed at supporting survivors of sexual and gender-based violence illustrates how they reaffirm normative whiteness.
This paper process-traces how European policymakers have delegated regulatory responsibilities to private certification and monitoring bodies acting as regulatory intermediaries. It explores how regulators can constrain or incentivise self-regulation that exists in their shadow via intermediaries, instead of using direct modes of regulation.
