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The death of privacy policies: How app stores shape GDPR compliance of apps

Krämer, Julia - In: Internet Policy Review 13 (2024) 2, pp. 1-38

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) obliges data controllers to inform users about data processing practices. Long criticised for inefficiency, privacy policies face a substantive shift with the recent introduction of privacy labels by the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store....

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Explanations of news personalisation across countries and media types

Bastian, Mariella; Makhortykh, Mykola; Harambam, Jaron; … - In: Internet Policy Review 9 (2020) 4, pp. 1-34

as black boxes that indicate a significant gap between practice and theory of algorithmic transparency, in particular in …

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Mixed traditions: Evaluating telecommunications transparency

Ballard, Ben; Parsons, Christopher - In: Internet Policy Review 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-30

telecommunications transparency reports on government requests for information within Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States … to transparency, and also are sustainable, insofar as they evolve in their scope and structure while remaining regularly … variation in their adoption of effective transparency reporting practices over the last decade. …

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Can online political targeting be rendered transparent? Prospects for campaign oversight using the Facebook Ad Library

Mehta, Somya; Erickson, Kristofer - In: Internet Policy Review 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-31

A recent policy development has been voluntary self-regulation of internet platforms through the establishment of online ad archives. Since 2018, concern over the potential misuse of platforms has led to calls for reform of online campaign monitoring. In response, Google, Facebook and Twitter...

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Necessary and inherent limits to internet surveillance

Wright, Joss - In: Internet Policy Review 2 (2013) 3, pp. 1-11

Information technologies now play a huge role in both personal and institutional life, playing the role of a global communications medium. As our means of interaction increasingly centre on the internet, there is a desire from nation states to exercise control and obtain access to the...

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Staking out the unclear ethical terrain of online social experiments

Puschmann, Cornelius; Bozdag, Engin - In: Internet Policy Review 3 (2014) 4, pp. 1-15

In this article, we discuss the ethical issues raised by large-scale online social experiments using the controversy surrounding the so-called Facebook emotional contagion study as our prime example (Kramer, Guillory, & Hancock, 2014). We describe how different parties approach the issues raised...

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Contested meanings of inclusiveness, accountability and transparency in trade policymaking

Malcolm, Jeremy - In: Internet Policy Review 6 (2017) 4, pp. 1-18

Inclusiveness, accountability and transparency carry different meanings in the context of different public policy … reconcile civil society's expectations of the inclusiveness, accountability and transparency of trade negotiations with the …

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Neutrality, fairness or freedom? Principles for platform regulation

Bostoen, Friso - In: Internet Policy Review 7 (2018) 1, pp. 1-19

The need for online platform regulation has been a topic of scholarly debate. However, reality is now catching up to and even overtaking the academic writing on this subject. France has adopted a law on platform fairness, the European Commission recently ordered Google to implement a form of...

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Algorithmic governance and the need for consumer empowerment in data-driven markets

Larsson, Stefan - In: Internet Policy Review 7 (2018) 2, pp. 1-13

transparency in its commercial use, leads to a need for consumer policy that strengthens consumer protection. The widespread … information-asymmetric markets. The lack of transparency deriving from the complex and massive datafication of consumers – where …

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Reading between the lines and the numbers: an analysis of the first NetzDG reports

Heldt, Amélie - In: Internet Policy Review 8 (2019) 2, pp. 1-18

Approaches to regulating social media platforms and the way they moderate content has been an ongoing debate within legal and social scholarship for some time now. European policy makers have been asking for faster and more effective responses from the various social media platforms to explain...

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