Measuring the brussels effect through access requests: Has the European General Data Protection Regulation Influenced the Data Protection Rights of Canadian Citizens?

We investigate empirically whether the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) improved compliance with data protection rights of people who are not formally protected under GDPR. By measuring compliance with the right of access for European Union (EU) and Canadian residents, we find that this is indeed the case. We...

Correction to: An ethico-legal framework for social data science (International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, (2021), 11, 4, (377-390), 10.1007/s41060-020-00211-7)

The article ‘‘An ethico-legal framework for social data science’’, written by Nikolaus Forgó, Stefanie Hänold, Jeroen van den Hoven, Tina Krügel, Iryna Lishchuk, René Mahieu, Anna Monreale, Dino Pedreschi, Francesca Pratesi, David van Putten originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on April...

An ethico-legal framework for social data science

This paper presents a framework for research infrastructures enabling ethically sensitive and legally compliant data science in Europe. Our goal is to describe how to design and implement an open platform for big data social science, including, in particular, personal data. To this end, we discuss a number of infrastructural, organizational...

From dignity to security protocols: a scientometric analysis of digital ethics

Our lives are increasingly intertwined with the digital realm, and with new technology, new ethical problems emerge. The academic field that addresses these problems—which we tentatively call ‘digital ethics’—can be an important intellectual resource for policy making and regulation. This is why it is important to understand how the new...

Collectively exercising the right of access: individual effort, societal effect

The debate about how to govern personal data has intensified in recent years. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which came into effect in May 2018, relies on transparency mechanisms codified through obligations for organisations and citizen rights. While some of these rights have existed for decades, their effectiveness is...

The Right of Access as a Tool for Privacy Governance: Findings from Individual Requests & Proposal for a Crowd-sourced Dataset of Privacy Practices