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Data analytics have played a role in elections for years. But today’s massive voter relationship management platforms use digital campaigning practices to take it to another level.
The response to British Airways’ data breach could help set new social norms for what is acceptable.
Technology experts have long worried about a ‘digital divide’ between those who could use computers and those who could not. Artificial intelligence algorithms are widening the gulf.
Facebook says it’s changing. Time will tell. In the meantime, privacy is under threat, news and journalism are suffering, and the algorithms employed by digital platforms are worryingly opaque.
The General Data Protection Regulations have been in force since May 2018. Analysis of its four key measures: labels, liability obligation, portability and pseudonymisation.
Tech firms should be forced to reassess how they impact society under existing EU law.
The European Union has issued its first fine, cracking down on companies that misuse users’ personal data. Why hasn’t the US taken a similarly strong approach?
Lessons on the shaping of current privacy and technology notions by the US Supreme Court.
Websites are trying to get around GDPR rules on giving you control over your data.
Blockchain data is unchangeable, which is a problem when privacy laws require companies to delete data once it’s served its purpose.
On May 25, 2018, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. Four months later, how has the law changed people’s perceptions and behaviour?
The Achilles’ heel of law technologies: training. Only 10% of such initiatives are aimed at law students, so how should this issue be managed to win the AI race?
Large-scale data collection and analysis can target consumer behaviour. Faced with the risk of drifts, transparency and ethics of algorithms become paramount.
A proposed EU copyright directive aims to make Google, Facebook and other online platforms pay to display snippets of news. But will it work, and what will be the costs?
Trust is the keystone of the entire Internet system: without it more connection and therefore more commerce. How to restore it?
Privacy rules enacted in Europe are affecting companies – and their customers and users – all around the world.
Imagine if we could specify our general privacy preferences in our devices, have them check privacy policies when we sign up for apps, and warn us if the agreements overstep.
Facebook and Google already face a legal complaint in the wake of the new data protection law, but the most precious data still isn’t covered.
Will GDPR usher in a fresh start for the internet? A look at the four main foundation elements and how they affect you.
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Assistant Professor of Business Technology Management, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Guelph
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Professor of Information Systems Management, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice; Lead, UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative, UNSW
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Professor, Business Technology Management, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
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Professeur de Droit. co-Director of the MSc in Health Management & Data Intelligence. Droit international des affaires, Business and Compliance. Health management, EM Lyon Business School
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Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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Professeur de droit des affaires, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School
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Professor of Distributed Systems & Chair in Applied Data Sciences, Queensland University of Technology
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CSIT R&D Programme Manager, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer in Systems Security Engineering, Bournemouth University
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Full-time professor, Schiller Intrenational University (Paris Campus); Maitre de conférences à Sciences Po Paris, Schiller International University; Sciences Po
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Marketing, University of Sydney