Search engines can be portrayed both as champions of freedom and as agents of surveillance. By facilitating the retrieval of online data, they enable a global public to seek, receive and impart information. Where information about individuals is concerned, however, search engine services can...

European media policymakers have latched onto the term quot;co-regulation.quot; However, despite the term's frequent use, the underlying concept of quot;co-regulationquot; lacks terminological and, more importantly, conceptual clarity. In this article, we will examine the use of the term in the...

On 23 July 2014 the European Parliament and the Council adopted a Regulation "on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market" (the “eIDAS Regulation”). The Regulation deals with two distinct topics. In the first place it introduces a system...