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 Privacy
Cypherpunk refers to social movements, individuals, institutions, technologies, and political actions that, with a decentralised approach, defend, support, offer, code, or rely on strong encryption systems in order to re-shape social, political, or economic asymmetries.
Has the GDPR changed privacy in apps? We study how third-party tracking—a common privacy threat—has changed since the GDPR was introduced.
What do we mean when we say data collection? This paper enacts a performative and feminist critique of the term and discuss potential alternatives.
This editorial introduces ten research articles, which form part of this special issue, exploring feminist data protection.
The extraterritorial application of GDPR does not promote European values. Rather, it evokes wrong expectations about the universality of individual rights.
Standards impact technology leadership, more so where they precede market launch. European values are therefore important for European technology in ICT markets.
Through empirical methods that walkthrough a typical user experience for acquiring virtual private network (VPN) services, this paper attempts to answer the question of how we come to trust, use and govern VPNs.
This paper provides a unique analysis of cryptoparties and demonstrates the significance of mundane practices for security and privacy.
This paper examines the ethical and legal issues arising from the closure of a data-rich firms such as Facebook and provides four policy recommendations to mitigate the resulting harms to society.
