Tag: privacy

1 May 2020

Authors: Sara Spinks

Siân Brooke, researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, explores the challenges of a data driven economy and the impact on our personal privacy in the digital ...
Read More Preserving privacy in the age of Big Data

25 July 2017

Authors: Ben Zevenbergen

Digital technologies are increasingly proposed as innovative solution to the problems and threats faced by vulnerable groups such as children, women, and LGBTQ people. However, there exists a structural ...
Read More Design ethics for gender-based violence and safety technologies

10 May 2017

Authors: Huw Davies

“Whether your child is an artist, a storyteller, a singer or a scientist, I’m the lovable little friend that will bring that out!” says the FisherPrice Smart Bear. Everyone ...
Read More How and why is children’s digital data being harvested?

19 September 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

It has been an extremely rewarding two days at the Symposium on Big Data and Human Development that Eduardo Lopez and I organised. We had a full room of ...
Read More Symposium on Big Data and Human Development – closing remarks

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 January 2016

Authors: Anne-marie Oostveen

This year I organise together with Diana Dimitrova, a legal researcher from the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law, a panel at the Computer, Privacy & Data Protection conference in ...
Read More CPDP2016: Panel on Technologies for Border Control

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 May 2015

Authors: Anne-marie Oostveen

Anne-Marie Oostveen, University of Oxford and Diana Dimitrova, Katholiek Universiteit of Leuven Biometric technologies are on the rise. By electronically recording data about individual’s physical attributes such as fingerprints ...
Read More Iris scanners can now identify us from 40 feet away, but we don’t have to accept it

1 May 2015

Authors: Anne-marie Oostveen

Today I received the good news that the Scientific Committee of the Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2015 has accepted our panel ‘Privacy, Data Protection, and Ethics of Automation and Identification ...
Read More Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2015

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

8 June 2014

Authors: Ian Brown

Very inspiring today to see over 500 people turn up for the Don’t Spy On Us coalition’s day of action, on the first anniversary of Edward Snowden’s leaks. There ...
Read More Don’t spy on us!

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