This paper examines threats to privacy and anonymity accompanying underlying technical changes related to the Internet of Things and big data analytics. Governmental and corporate entities have focused on creating sophisticated graphs of citizens' social media connections and aggregating these...

The interface between the legal systems triggered by the creation, distribution and consumption of Data is difficult to grasp, and this paper therefore tries to dissect this interface by following information, i.e. ‘the data’ from its sources, to users and re-users and ultimately to its...

Privacy concerns are increasingly at the forefront of debates about data. As a result, there has been a growing focus on privacy issues in advocacy and work on open data. This paper provides a review of privacy issues in open data, taking into account the shifting economic context for the...

Open data are held to contribute to a wide variety of social and political goals, including strengthening transparency, public participation and democratic accountability, promoting economic growth and innovation, and enabling greater public sector efficiency and cost savings. However, releasing...

In 2010 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began an effort called for in the National Broadband Plan to improve the availability of information for consumers about their broadband services. The Measuring Broadband America program brought together the FCC's contractor, interested...

Smart city technology has its value and its place; it isn’t automatically or universally harmful. Urban challenges and opportunities addressed via smart technology demand systematic study, examining general patterns and local variations as smart city practices unfold around the world. Smart...