Tag: regulation
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Preserving privacy in the age of Big Data
1 May 2020
Author:Sian Brooke
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 ...
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Introducing the Pervert’s Dilemma: A Contribution to the Critique of Deepfake Pornography
22 November 2019
Author:Carl Öhman
OII DPhil candidate Carl Öhman answers questions about his new paper Introducing the Pervert’s Dilemma: A Contribution to the Critique of Deepfake Pornography which looks at the ethical challenges ...
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The legal challenges of a robot-filled future
5 April 2018
Authors:Lanisha Butterfield
Sandra Wachter
Part of the University of Oxford’s Science Blog ‘Women in AI’ series, Dr. Sandra Wachter, a lawyer and Research Fellow in Data Ethics, AI, robotics and Internet Regulation/cyber-security at ...
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Perspective: Should We Regulate Digital Platforms?
14 December 2017
Author:I invited Phil Howard and Gillian Bolsover in November of 2016 to guest edit this special issue of Big Data on ‘‘Computational Propaganda.’’ I am delighted at the collection ...
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Email Disrupting Life at Home?
3 January 2017
Author:Email Disrupting Life at Home? Careful What You Ask For In France and other nations there is discussion of somehow banning email after 6pm or outside of working hours. ...
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Organising in the “digital wild west”: Can strategic bottlenecks help prevent a race to the bottom for online workers?
11 May 2016
Author:For decades, large firms have been outsourcing and offshoring jobs. Work flowed from developed economies to developing ones, where wages were lower and regulations were of a lighter touch. ...
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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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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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The complicated relationship between Chinese Internet users and their government
1 August 2013
Author:David Herold
The Chinese government has been incredibly successful and sophisticated in the way it has established control over the Internet in China, both over web content and public discourses about ...
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Staying free in a world of persuasive technologies
29 July 2013
Author:Technologies are increasingly being designed to change the way we think and behave. While there has been excitement recently about designing information environments to ‘nudge’ us into beneficial behaviours, ...
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Is China changing the Internet, or is the Internet changing China?
12 July 2013
Author:The global shift in the population of Internet users from North America and Europe to ’emerging’ nations such as China, is one of the most dynamic social factors promising ...
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How effective is online blocking of illegal child sexual content?
28 June 2013
Author:Karel Demeyer
Blocking of ‘illegal’ websites and online content keeps raising questions in many countries. Karel Demeyer, Eva Lievens and Jos Dumortier discuss the inefficiencies and legal perils of website blocking ...
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Time for debate about the societal impact of the Internet of Things
22 April 2013
Author: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 ...
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Personal data protection vs the digital economy? OII policy forum considers our digital footprints
3 February 2011
Author:Catching a bus, picking up some groceries, calling home to check on the children – all simple, seemingly private activities that characterise many people’s end to the working day. ...
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Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: Closing keynote by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
17 September 2010
Author:Tobias Escher
Our two-day conference is coming to a close with a keynote by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger who is soon to be joining the faculty of the Oxford Internet Institute as Professor of ...
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