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BKA: “The hacker does not exist. We should invent him.” - Generic Image
Theresa Züger | 1. March 2016

BKA: “The hacker does not exist. We should invent him.”

The german Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) published a study that attempts to create a typology of cyber criminals by equating them with “hackers”. This article is a comment and reply…

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Simon Rinas | 5. February 2016

Digital Sovereignty – a prospect

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of digital sovereignty. As a result of the 2013 revelation of massive U.S.-driven data surveillance, both European policy-makers and stakeholders from EU…

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Rebecca Kahn | 20. January 2016

Britain’s Draft Surveillance Bill puts free speech and free press at risk

“Try to think of the new powers as just an extended itemised phone bill,” was the way UK Home Secretary Theresa May tried to explain the implications of the Draft…

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Theresa Züger | 5. January 2016

The new game about the power of information

Since the Snowden revelations, the term and concept of whistleblowing is widely known. Nevertheless, whistleblowing existed long before the internet. This article aims to reflect the recent development of this…

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Jörg Pohle | 21. December 2015

Report of the interdisciplinary workshop “Privacy, Datenschutz & Surveillance”

This report of the interdisciplinary workshop “Privacy, Datenschutz & Surveillance” was co-authored by Dr. Johannes Eichenhofer and Jörg Pohle. Ziel des interdisziplinären Workshops “Privacy, Datenschutz & Surveillance”, der am 4.12.2015 auf…

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Uta Meier-Hahn | 18. December 2015

Cogent v Deutsche Telekom: a classy conflict

Cogent and Deutsche Telekom were peers… until the US network operator sued its German counterpart. The case serves to illustrate a broader issue in net policy. In early December, a…

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Hannfried Leisterer | 17. December 2015

New European guidelines for cybersecurity

European trialogue negotiators reached a milestone agreement on the draft of the Network and Information Security Directive (NIS Directive) to strengthen cybersecurity across the European Union. The Directive requires providers…

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Sebastian Leuschner | 16. December 2015

A “Charter of Fundamental Rights for the Digital Age” and why we need it

“I surf, so I am.” – According to the Internet Milieu Study by the German Institute for Trust and Security on the Internet, this is the new credo of the…

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Dominik Wurnig | 24. November 2015

Big data: from the doom of sociology to its method

This article was published first by the Internet Policy Review. Once, Mike Savage predicted the downfall of sociology – but now, he revises his pessimism. In 2007, his famous essay…

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Platform governance

How can the goals of corporations and the values of society be reconciled on online platforms?

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Du siehst eine Tastatur auf der eine Taste rot gefärbt ist und auf der „Control“ steht. Eine bildliche Metapher für die Regulierung von digitalen Plattformen im Internet und Data Governance. You see a keyboard on which one key is coloured red and says "Control". A figurative metaphor for the regulation of digital platforms on the internet and data governance.

Data governance

How can the technical, organisational and regulatory mechanisms of data sharing and use serve the public interest?

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