Tag: regulation

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

22 November 2019

Authors: Mark Malbas

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 ...
Read More Introducing the Pervert’s Dilemma: A Contribution to the Critique of Deepfake Pornography

5 April 2018

Authors: Genevieve Juillet

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 ...
Read More The legal challenges of a robot-filled future

3 January 2017

Authors: Bill Dutton

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. ...
Read More Email Disrupting Life at Home?

11 May 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

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. ...
Read More Organising in the “digital wild west”: Can strategic bottlenecks help prevent a race to the bottom for online workers?

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

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

1 August 2013

Authors: 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 ...
Read More The complicated relationship between Chinese Internet users and their government

29 July 2013

Authors: James Williams

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, ...
Read More Staying free in a world of persuasive technologies

12 July 2013

Authors: Bill Dutton

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 ...
Read More Is China changing the Internet, or is the Internet changing China?

28 June 2013

Authors: 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 ...
Read More How effective is online blocking of illegal child sexual content?

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