Tech Policy

In a growing number of fields, AI systems show better performance rates than humans and their potential in various applications is immense. AI systems however, inevitably cause and will continue to cause damage. This Explainer provides an overview of the debate on how society should treat damage caused by these systems.

Over the past two decades, the digital rights discourse gained ground in internet governance debates around the world, however, the meaning and scope of digital rights differs across borders. This Spotlight provides an overview of the state of digital rights in Israel.

A conversation with Danny Rogers from the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) on the business model behind disinformation activities and ways to defund and disincentivize their propagators by providing the industry with clear definitions and data.

A conversation with Nicole Krause from the Life Sciences Communication Department at the University of Wisconsin about science and political communication and ways to communicate more effectively with conservative, religious and rural audiences.

Bustling online activity coupled with the easy availability of vast amounts of free information diverts attention from problems in both markets and information niches that have yet to find a sustainable business model. This explainer provides background information on information markets, why they fail, and suggests ways to repair them.

This analysis aims to capture and cluster different post-GDPR enforcement styles by DPAs across the EU to better understand why enforcement over data protection issues vary across borders.

This commentary critically assesses current trends in online media control in liberal democracies. It argues that protecting society against disinformation campaigns has become a prevailing and increasingly successful legitimatory strategy for governmental restrictions on the free flow of information. 

As important as a focus on tech platforms is, there is growing and persuasive empirical evidence that political parties and politicians themselves and their behavior online play an even greater role for a healthy public sphere. 

The EU’s goal is to become a “global role model for the digital economy” and to promote its regulatory model beyond the EU’s borders. Accordingly, lawmakers are now considering various options for limiting the power of ‘Big Tech’ by regulating their data-driven business models.

Dark Patterns can be defined as are design practices applied to the interface of an online service that impact data subjects before or during the moment of data collection.