May 6, 2020
EDRi Launches Hub to Track Digital Rights Amid Pandemic
EDRi’s investigation of COVID-19 era surveillance includes recommendations from digital rights watchdog organizations.
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March 27, 2020
How Can Digital Impact Help to Mitigate the Effects of COVID-19?
Digital Impact and the Digital Civil Society Lab are working with partners to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
February 27, 2020
Civil Society and GDPR Compliance
A report from OSF looks at how nefarious actors have tried to use the GDPR to stifle public interest research and reporting in the social sector.
January 28, 2020
The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2020
A new report from the Centre for Humanitarian Data aims to increase awareness of data that is available and missing across humanitarian operations.
October 24, 2019
Infusing Startups With Ethics That Go Along With Profits
ITEGA’s Bill Densmore introduces three new efforts to orient both investors and entrepreneurs around ethics, data privacy, and transparency principles.
May 30, 2018
GDPR: ICO Publishes Final Guidance on Consent
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has released tools to help organizations prepare for the GDPR. The latest guidance features key changes from past iterations.
May 29, 2018
GDPR and the End of the Internet’s Grand Bargain
The following is an excerpt of an article published by Harvard Business Review on April 9, 2018. “For now, GDPR, which replaces previous EU mandates on data collection and use, differs significantly from U.S. law, pushing the two regions further apart in their approaches to regulating the digital economy. “The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation […]
May 28, 2018
Internet Health Report Uncovers Three Issues of Growing Concern
Who controls the internet? How open is it? Who is welcome online? Is it safe? Who can succeed there? Mozilla’s Internet Health Report, an open source compilation of data, research, and stories, shows how the internet is evolving across these five issues. The editor of the report, Solana Larsen, joined Digital Civil Society Lab Director […]
May 27, 2018
Companies Respond To GDPR By Blocking EU Users
Mike Masnick, editor of the Techdirt blog, is concerned about the new regulation’s potential to splinter the internet “in a way that we’re not entirely prepared for.”