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Democracy and open data: are the two linked?
Are democracies better at practicing open government than less free societies? To find out, I analyzed the 70 countries profiled in the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Data Index and compared the...
View ArticleThe ‘right to be forgotten’ and the quagmire of global Internet regulation
Is an open and free Internet a fundamental human right? And if so, how do we enforce it in an international context? These questions have become acutely pressing following the European Union Court of...
View ArticleTurkish rights and digital delights: an IGF recap
The annual Internet Governance Forum was established to foster an open, inclusive dialogue among the parties that “govern” the Internet. IGF is a conference designed, somewhat counter-intuitively, to...
View ArticleThe unfortunate rise of data protectionism
The age of Internet exceptionalism is at risk of coming to a close. Thus far, the Internet has served as a platform for data transfer and information sharing that easily transcends national borders....
View ArticleWhat the ‘zero rating’ debate reveals about net neutrality
February’s vote by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to impose demanding net-neutrality rules on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) has now been followed by a 300-plus-page Report and Order....
View ArticleCopyright, pharmaceutical enforcement shouldn’t be imposed on ICANN
Since 1998, U.S. policy has held that the Internet’s “IANA functions” — the technical functions collectively referred to as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, administered by ICANN.org — will...
View ArticleThe troubling intersection of national courts and international censorship
Should national-level courts routinely assume or impose their jurisdiction on international entities when it comes to content? That’s the question Daphne Keller of Stanford University’s Center for...
View ArticleJe ne suis pas Google
The French government’s privacy-regulation agency decided in June to order Google Inc. to remove (or “delist”) from all Google websites worldwide – not just those in France or the European Union –...
View ArticleThe business case for Cambodian Internet freedom
Riven by Marxist-inspired genocide only a few decades ago, Cambodia now aspires to both democracy and something like a free market—at least, in theory. But the country’s ruling party, the CPP, has been...
View ArticleFrance’s privacy regulators want to dictate what you (Yes, you!) can find online
Whether you’re an American sitting at laptop in Hawaii or a Japanese citizen using your smartphone in Kyoto, French privacy regulators believe they have the authority to block search results you...
View ArticleFacebook’s basic instincts
Facebook’s announcement last week that it is rebranding its Internet.org initiative—a bundle of free Internet services that has been rolled out, step by step, in developing countries over the last...
View ArticleCongress scrambles to settle US-EU data spat this weekend
Having procrastinated beyond all reason in its duties to help resolve a pressing international disagreement over how U.S. companies use Europeans’ data, the rush is now on for the U.S. Senate to pass...
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Why R Street is engaging on international Internet policy
This post was co-authored by R Street Innovation Policy Director Mike Godwin. Readers may notice that R Street has been increasingly vocal on international Internet-policy and tech-policy issues. For...
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For a limited time, make a tax-deductible donation to R Street of $100 or more and we’ll send you a free original poster of Godwin’s Law signed by R Street Innovation Policy Director Mike Godwin....
View ArticleLet’s keep remembering the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’
Search-engine giant Google announced earlier today that it has expanded its implementation of the European Union’s “Right to Be Forgotten.” I get why the company made this choice, even though I don’t...
View ArticleCharting a path forward for Internet access in India
The attached policy short was co-authored by R Street Associate Fellow Sharada Srinivasan. When India’s network-neutrality activists won an overwhelming victory in February, their first impulse was...
View ArticleEU platform regulations may hurt consumers and European startups and lock in...
In the response we at the R Street Institute provided to the European Commission’s survey on “Digital Single Market” regulation of what the commission calls “online platforms,” we challenged the...
View ArticleFrance fines Google for failing to forget
France’s data-privacy authority announced today that it will impose a fine on Google for failing adequately to comply with the so-called “right to be forgotten.” (For background on the right to be...
View ArticleGoogle to France: We can’t pick this Bonaparte
Today’s announcement from Google that the company will appeal a French agency’s order to abide by France’s version of the so-called “right to be forgotten” all over the world doesn’t just represent...
View ArticleInternet governance and the free market
With the U.S. government set to relinquish its last vestiges of its control over the internet’s functions through the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), R Street hosted a panel at its...
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