Tag: personal data

5 May 2017

Authors: Patrick Allo

A few months ago I was invited to enter in a dialogue with Brussels-based artist Rossella Biscotti for the occasion of the exhibition of her installation “Other” from 2015 ...
Read More The meaning of ‘other’ in classifications: Formal methods meet artistic research (II)

5 May 2017

Authors: Patrick Allo

A few months ago I was invited to enter in a dialogue with Brussels-based artist Rossella Biscotti for the occasion of the exhibition of her installation “Other” from 2015 ...
Read More The meaning of ‘other’ in classifications: Formal methods meet artistic research

24 January 2017

Authors: Taha Yasseri

In an excellent cross-cultural study on Wikipedia edit/revert behaviours [1], Tsvetkova and her colleagues argue among other things for a mediating effect of culture in accounting for different dominance patterns ...
Read More Cyberbullying: no place to hide

20 December 2016

Authors: Taha Yasseri

Are users always worried about their data? One consequence of the Wanless report is a need for more distributed healthcare. This means that an ageing and expanding patient population ...
Read More Sensitive data, cognitive resource and my community: extending the Tie Strength dimension

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

16 March 2015

Authors: Ulrike Rauer

Dementia affects about 44 million individuals today, a number that is expected to triple by 2050. To date there is no cure or treatment. Ulrike Deetjen, Eric T. Meyer ...
Read More How can big data be used to advance dementia research?

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 May 2014

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

What kind of research does the journal Policy & Internet publish? Editor Vili Lehdonvirta approaches the question from two angles; first, by examining the question empirically, through a brief ...
Read More Past and Emerging Themes in Policy and Internet Studies

7 November 2013

Authors: Ben Zevenbergen

To make sense of today’s increasingly complex Internet architecture, network researchers collect and share datasets of network measurements, from detailed individual-level traces to data aggregated on a regional level. ...
Read More Ethical privacy guidelines for mobile connectivity measurements

8 July 2013

Authors: Linnet Taylor

Africa is fast becoming a source of ‘big data’, however there are big holes in the governance of the technology. The OII’s Linnet Taylor asks what can incentivise African ...
Read More The scramble for Africa’s data

22 April 2013

Authors: Jeremy Crump

Despite the growing ubiquity and connectivity of the consumer devices and other objects that make up the “Internet of Things“, very little is understood about the likely social impacts ...
Read More Time for debate about the societal impact of the Internet of Things

24 May 2012

Authors: Rik Crutzen

Rik Crutzen of Maastricht University, Guest Editor (with Gordon Gao, of the University of Maryland) of Policy and Internet’s special issue on eHealth, discusses the policy insights of the ...
Read More eHealth: what is needed at the policy level? New special issue from Policy and Internet