Making sense of our connected world
“The experience of privacy does not necessarily depend on the mercy of the law”
A short legal-psychological interview on privacy between Julian Staben and Ricarda Moll. First published on www.juwiss.de. The German Constitution protects a right to privacy under several labels. Firstly, there are explicit…
Three Ways to Understanding Civil Disobedience in a Digitized World
This article is a shortened version of the introduction Theresa Züger gave at the international and interdisciplinary workshop Civil Disobedience Beyond the State II: The Digitalization of Disobedience from Whistleblowing to Anonymous that…
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…
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 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…
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…
Surveillance
The state monitors its citizens, Internet companies monitor their users – and finally we monitor ourselves and each other. Who is monitoring whom and why? What positive effects can surveillance have and when does it become a danger for a democratic society? Questions like these were posed by students of the Humboldt University of Berlin in the seminar “Tracing Surveillance – On the Trace of Surveillance” led by HIIG researcher Thomas Christian Bächle. In the contributions to this dossier they discuss their views on state and economic power and surveillance technologies.
How COVID-19 impacts digital technologies
The current lockdown is boosting online activity – everything is increasingly shifting to the digital sphere. In this dossier we ask if, how and why the Corona pandemic will affect key subjects of digital technologies. What does this mean for the regulation of content on digital platforms? How is Covid-19 activating the digital society? How does it transform our online culture? How safe are tracing apps? What lessons can be learned regarding cyber security? Busy times for our researchers!
