Tag: Governance & Security
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Human Rights and Internet Technology: Six Considerations
17 April 2018
Author:Oxford Internet Institute
The Internet has drastically reshaped communication practices across the globe, including many aspects of modern life. This increased reliance on Internet technology also impacts human rights. The United Nations ...
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Mapping Fentanyl Trades on the Darknet
16 October 2017
Author:My colleagues Joss Wright, Martin Dittus and I have been scraping the world’s largest darknet marketplaces over the last few months, as part of our darknet mapping project. The data we ...
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Could data pay for global development? Introducing data financing for global good
3 January 2017
Author:“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 ...
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Should there be a better accounting of the algorithms that choose our news for us?
7 December 2016
Author: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 ...
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The blockchain paradox: Why distributed ledger technologies may do little to transform the economy
21 November 2016
Author: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”. ...
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Exploring the Ethics of Monitoring Online Extremism
23 March 2016
Author:(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. ...
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Assessing the Ethics and Politics of Policing the Internet for Extremist Material
18 February 2016
Author: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 ...
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New Voluntary Code: Guidance for Sharing Data Between Organisations
8 January 2016
Author: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 ...
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Controlling the crowd? Government and citizen interaction on emergency-response platforms
7 December 2015
Author: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 ...
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Government “only” retaining online metadata still presents a privacy risk
30 November 2015
Author: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 ...
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Crowdsourcing ideas as an emerging form of multistakeholder participation in Internet governance
21 October 2015
Authors:Roxana Radu
Nicolo Zingales
Enrico Calandro
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 ...
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Uber and Airbnb make the rules now — but to whose benefit?
27 July 2015
Author: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 ...
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Why are citizens migrating to Uber and Airbnb, and what should governments do about it?
27 July 2015
Author: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). ...
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Should we use old or new rules to regulate warfare in the information age?
9 March 2015
Author: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 ...
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Does a market-approach to online privacy protection result in better protection for users?
25 February 2015
Author: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) ...
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Will digital innovation disintermediate banking — and can regulatory frameworks keep up?
19 February 2015
Author: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 ...
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Designing Internet technologies for the public good
8 October 2014
Author: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 ...
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Monitoring Internet openness and rights: report from the Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2014
12 August 2014
Author: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 ...
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Evidence on the extent of harms experienced by children as a result of online risks: implications for policy and research
29 July 2014
Author: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 ...
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The challenges of government use of cloud services for public service delivery
24 February 2014
Author: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 ...
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