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Chinese Data Nationalism Targets Didi Platform

A week after the close of our conference comparing platform governance in the US and China, the Chinese government took another strong action to subordinate one of its major private […]

The Narrative: U.S. Congress “unites” against the platforms; Google (and the European Union) end cookies’ death sentence; Senegal’s data nationalism; China’s digital mercantilism

June 30, 2021 The USG goes after the platforms The attitudinal backlash against digital platforms (Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter) has quickly been translated into public policy. The Biden […]

The Narrative: TikTok still worries the US, US-China conference nears, Bitcoin finds a home, Canada goes nuts

Biden didn’t “revoke” the TikTok ban President Biden issued an executive order June 9 on “Protecting Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries.” The media widely reported it as “rescinding” or […]

The Narrative (June 03, 2021): Bitcoin and ransomware; IGP’s data enclosure research; WhatsApp backs down on privacy update 

Ransomware fuels talk of Bitcoin ban, Russia and the US clash over YouTube, WhatsApp backtracks on enforcing its new privacy policy, and IGP presents at the PLSC for the first […]

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Standardizing Security: Surveillance, Human Rights, and TLS 1.3

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Challenging the Social Media Moral Panic: Preserving Free Expression under Hypertransparency

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The Hidden Standards War: Economic Factors Affecting IPv6 Deployment

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Sovereign RUnet: What Does it Mean?

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Data Flows and the Digital Economy: Information as a Mobile Factor of Production

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