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Towards the Dismantling of Digital Monopolies – Data, Competitiveness and the Portability Key
By Maria Paz How have tech giants like Facebook and Google built their empires? Why is it so tough for…
Is Breaking up Big Tech Enough?
Reflections on Antitrust and Surveillance Capitalism With Timothy Karr Could you comment on the conversation around antitrust laws in…
Breaking Up the Big Tech Legacy: Antitrust Developments in the US
With Charlotte Slaiman This interview is divided in two parts. Part one looks at the current status of antitrust…
Social Media Giants & the Resurgence of India’s Modi Wave
Q: Compared to 2014, how did political parties utilize social media platforms in India’s 2019 general elections? How has this…
The Scored Citizen: Data Scores as a New Form of Governance
The datafication of social life has led to a profound transformation in how society is ordered, how decisions are made,…
Data Black Magic
‘Data is the new oil’, you’ve probably read this. Since it was coined by the English mathematician Clive Humby back…
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Researching our Digitally Mediated World: An Argument for Feminist Digital Anthropology
By Ingrid Brudvig Ingrid Brudvig explores how feminist research methodologies need to be reconfigured in the digital context, assessing their…
South Americas and the Surveillance Society
By Aram Aharonian We live in times when algorithms facilitate electoral fraud, track people’s movements and can analyze micro- expressions…
On RightsCon and the long con of digital policy multistakeholderism
The digital rights community is increasingly enclosed within spaces running on private donations. RightsCon, along with the IFF and re:publica,…
What’s up with Libra? Everything That Should Concern Us About Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency
Last week, Facebook announced Libra, its new currency based on blockchain technology. This development that has been met with mixed…
No magic bullets – Reclaiming the transformatory potential of e-commerce for women’s empowerment
With the announcement of the Joint Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment at the WTO Ministerial Conference in December…
Artificial Intelligence – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Part I- Regulating for Bias in AI You have been working on developing standards for algorithmic bias considerations with the…
The ‘Free’ and ‘Flexible’ Workforce?
The research findings of this article are based on a recently published ILO report titled Digital labour platforms and the…
Should Data Flow Freely Across Borders?
Data as a commodity A propensity by some to advocate in favor of the principle of the free flow of…
Assange, Democracy, and the People’s Internet
The arrest of Julian Assange on April 11, following his forcible expulsion from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and…
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