Policy and Law – Digital Society Blog

Hannfried Leisterer | 10. June 2015

The “Right to be Forgotten” – recent developments and German case law

A year ago, the European Court of Justice ruled that people may request removal from search engines to exercise their so called “Right to be Forgotten”. However, the ruling did…

Sascha Friesike | 27. May 2015

Reputation Instead of Obligation: Why We Need to Forge New Policies to Motivate Academic Data Sharing

Authors Sascha Friesike*1,2, Benedikt Fecher1,3, Marcel Hebing3, Stephanie Linek4 Affiliations 1Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin, Germany 2University of Wuerzburg, Germany 3German Institute for Economic Research…

Robin Tech | 19. May 2015

Robin Tech in the Committee ‘The Digital Agenda’ of the German Bundestag

Am 6. Mai wurde ich als Sachverständiger in den Bundestagsausschuss ‘Digitale Agenda’ eingeladen. In der Sitzung ging es um die ökonomischen Aspekte der Digitalisierung und damit auch um Startup-Unternehmen und…

Theresa Züger | 2. March 2015

Hacktivism = cybercrime? A reply to the Federal Criminal Office (BKA) study on hacktivists

By Adrian Haase and Theresa Züger. Previously published on sicherheitspolitik-blog.de and netzpolitik.org. Vor wenigen Tagen veröffentlichte das Bundeskriminalamt eine Studie mit dem Titel “Hacktivisten“, die auf einem dreistufigen Forschungsdesign beruht: einer Literaturrecherche, einer quantitativen Fallauswertung…

Hannfried Leisterer | 16. February 2015

The principle of ‘Datensparsamkeit’

The concept of ‘Datensparsamkeit” is codified in German data protection law and proposed for European law. It’s a term difficult to find a proper translation for. It could be translated…

Artur Krutsch | 30. January 2015

Multistakeholder as Governance Groups: New Study by Global Network of Internet and Society Centers

The Global Network of Internet and Society Research Centers (NoC) and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University are pleased to announce the release of a new…

Theresa Züger | 15. December 2014

Disobey 2.0 – civil disobedience in a digitized world

Until today the case of Aaron Swartz leaves the ones who knew him – and many others who admire him – in despair. He was threatened with 35 years of…

Jörg Pohle | 17. November 2014

Governing Privacy: Political, Legal, and Technological Developments

In October 2014, researchers of the interdisciplinary »Global Privacy Governance« cooperation network (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society) held a workshop entitled »Private…

Sebastian Leuschner | 31. October 2014

Snappening, celebrity nudes and NSA spying – the myth of personal responsibility towards protection of privacy

The article is published in German. Im neuen Roman ‚The Circle‘ von Dave Eggers wird das Credo ‚Privacy is Theft‘ zum neuen gesellschaftlichen Leitmotiv. Die totale Transparenz des Menschen und die…