Oxford Internet Institute

3 January 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

“If data is the new oil, then why aren’t we taxing it like we tax oil?” That was the essence of the provocative brief that set in motion our ... Read More Could data pay for global development? Introducing data financing for global good

7 December 2016

Authors: Brent Mittelstadt

The Facebook Wall, by René C. Nielsen (Flickr). A central ideal of democracy is that political discourse should allow a fair and critical exchange of ideas and values. But ... Read More Should there be a better accounting of the algorithms that choose our news for us?

21 November 2016

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Bitcoin’s underlying technology, the blockchain, is widely expected to find applications far beyond digital payments. It is celebrated as a “paradigm shift in the very idea of economic organization”. ... Read More The blockchain paradox: Why distributed ledger technologies may do little to transform the economy

23 March 2016

Authors: Bertram Vidgen

(Part 2 of 2) The Internet serves not only as a breeding ground for extremism, but also offers myriad data streams which potentially hold great value to law enforcement. ... Read More Exploring the Ethics of Monitoring Online Extremism

18 February 2016

Authors: Bertram Vidgen

The Internet serves not only as a breeding ground for extremism, but also offers myriad data streams which potentially hold great value to law enforcement. The report by the ... Read More Assessing the Ethics and Politics of Policing the Internet for Extremist Material

8 January 2016

Authors: Alison Holt

Many organisations are coming up with their own internal policy and guidelines for data sharing. However, for data sharing between organisations to be straight forward, there needs to a ... Read More New Voluntary Code: Guidance for Sharing Data Between Organisations

7 December 2015

Authors: Gregory Asmolov

There is a great deal of interest in the use of crowdsourcing tools and practices in emergency situations. Gregory Asmolov‘s article Vertical Crowdsourcing in Russia: Balancing Governance of Crowds ... Read More Controlling the crowd? Government and citizen interaction on emergency-response platforms

30 November 2015

Authors: Brent Mittelstadt

Issues around data capture, retention and control are gaining significant attention in many Western countries — including in the UK. In this piece originally posted on the Ethics Centre Blog, the OII’s ... Read More Government “only” retaining online metadata still presents a privacy risk

21 October 2015

Authors: Roxana Radu

Dilma Rouseff during the opening ceremony of the Global Stakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance: NETmundial. Image: Blog do Planalto (Flickr). What are the linkages between multistakeholder ... Read More Crowdsourcing ideas as an emerging form of multistakeholder participation in Internet governance

27 July 2015

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

The “Airbnb Law” was signed by Mayor Ed Lee in October 2014 at San Francisco City Hall, legalizing short-term rentals in SF with many conditions. Image of protesters by ... Read More Uber and Airbnb make the rules now — but to whose benefit?

27 July 2015

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Protest for fair taxi laws in Portland; organizers want city leaders to make ride-sharing companies play by the same rules as cabs and Town cars. Image: Aaron Parecki (Flickr). ... Read More Why are citizens migrating to Uber and Airbnb, and what should governments do about it?

21 May 2015

Authors: Anne-marie Oostveen

Public anxiety and legal protections currently pose a major challenge to anyone wanting to introduce eye-scanning security technologies. Reposted from The Conversation.   Biometric technologies are on the rise. ... Read More Iris scanners can now identify us from 40 feet away

9 March 2015

Authors: Oxford Internet Institute

As contemporary societies grow increasingly dependant on ICTs, any form of attack that involves their informational infrastructures poses serious risks and raises the need for adequate defence and regulatory ... Read More Should we use old or new rules to regulate warfare in the information age?

25 February 2015

Authors: Yong Jin Park

While prior studies have focused on what’s written in privacy policy statements, systematic attention on the interactive aspects of the Web have been scant. Yong Jin Park (Howard University) ... Read More Does a market-approach to online privacy protection result in better protection for users?

19 February 2015

Authors: Peteris Zilgalvis

Many of Europe’s economies are hampered by a waning number of innovations, partially attributable to the European financial system’s aversion to funding innovative enterprises and initiatives. Pēteris Zilgalvis discusses ... Read More Will digital innovation disintermediate banking — and can regulatory frameworks keep up?

8 October 2014

Authors: Ian Brown

The ongoing development of computing, communications and storage technologies presents a challenge to privacy protection, given the increasing ease with which personal data can be collected, analysed, stored, and ... Read More Designing Internet technologies for the public good

12 August 2014

Authors: Ben Zevenbergen

The control of information flows on the Internet is becoming more commonplace, in authoritarian regimes as well as in liberal democracies. Ben Zevenbergen and Jon Penney discuss their presentations ... Read More Monitoring Internet openness and rights: report from the Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2014

29 July 2014

Authors: Victoria Nash

Child Internet safety is a topic that continues to gain a great deal of media coverage and policy attention: but online risk and harm are not equivalent and should ... Read More Evidence on the extent of harms experienced by children as a result of online risks: implications for policy and research

24 February 2014

Authors: Kristina Irion

Cloud services hold the promise of rendering public service delivery and back-office operations more effective and efficient, by providing ubiquitous, on-demand access to computing resources. Beyond the compelling cost ... Read More The challenges of government use of cloud services for public service delivery

14 November 2013

Authors: danah boyd

Widespread Internet adoption by youth has prompted concerns about the safety issues they face when they go online, such as being hurt by a stranger, being exposed to pornographic ... Read More Exploring variation in parental concerns about online safety issues