Making sense of our connected world
Participants of internet governance meeting take stock of net neutrality arguments
While political leaders are currently wrestling over the future of the European Union, a pleasant European moment could be experienced on 12 June 2014 in Berlin at the European Dialogue…
The “Right to be Forgotten” in the digital age – the ECJ decision in the case of Google Spain
“The Internet never forgets” – this truth/truism is no longer correct, at least not in the European Union. On 13 May 2014 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that…
National, European or International: At which level should we expect new copyright exceptions?
Many professors struggle with the fact that their presentations may in fact infringe someone else’s copyright, because they include modified copyrighted images. Librarians face the issue that solutions to long-term…
The Europeanisation of Intelligence Services as a Prerequisite for an Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms
In an article recently published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung concerning the parliamentary discussions of the surveillance activities of the British secret service GCHQ, Sir Menzies Campbell, member of the House…
Wrapping up NETmundial
Nothing less than the future of the Internet has been discussed at the NETmundial conference in Sao Paulo, Brasil. The Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society participated with its research…
Conflict of conventions ? What a social sciences view can reveal about the interconnection deal between Netflix and Comcast
The news spread fast: Netflix and Comcast have sealed an interconnection agreement. The online video service will pay the internet access provider for the large amounts of video data1. to…
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!
