Democracy

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.

AI regulation is a debated intensively worldwide, with new laws in countries like France, Germany, China, and Canada, and ongoing debates in the US and Brazil. The following backgrounder explains the key issues at stake.

A conversation with Alexander Sängerlaub about the digital transformation of the public sphere, its consequences for democracy and the role of education and media literacy in fostering democratic resilience in the digital age. 

Proper systematic audits of automated decision-making can keep algorithms accountable and help systems and institutions understand and address inherent biases.

This text evaluates online media control in liberal democracies, noting that combating disinformation has increasingly justified governmental restrictions on information flow.

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

Data-driven decision-making can discriminate against minorities. While scientists have developed fairness constraints to counter this, enforcing these constraints may paradoxically harm the disadvantaged group.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a prevalent part of our society and commercial market. However, this emerging technology is not without flaws and raises pressing questions of liability.

A conversation with Dr. Ayelet Baram-Tsabari about science communication and its role in facilitating dialog with insular communities in Israel.

The article explores feminist social work conducted during May 2021’s violent events in the mixed city of Haifa. Linking experiences of marginalization and processes of community building, the article outlines the possibilities embedded in women’s only spaces against a backdrop of hostility and aggression.