Bill C-18 would require big digital platforms like Facebook and Google to pay Canadian media outlets for posting or linking to their news content. As for platforms like Facebook – its parent company Meta has threatened to remove news content in Canada altogether.

While new technologies still have the potential to positively enhance democratic values and human rights, repressive regimes actively deploy these tools for their own strategic advantage. In particular, the proliferation of commercial spyware, such as Pegasus software, is a big concern. The EU should place a much higher priority in countering government use of these tools.

Big Tech has concentrated vast economic power with the collusion of states, which has resulted in expanded surveillance, spiralling disinformation and weakened workers' rights. This report exposes the actors, the strategies, and the implications of this digital power grab, and shares ideas on how movements might bring technology back under popular control.

The private sector's data revolution – which creates new types of data and new measurements to build machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms – needs to be mirrored by a public sector data revolution. Good AI policy will pay attention to counting all who should be counted, measuring what should be measured, and protecting privacy and confidentiality at each step of the way.

This analysis of Microsoft’s cloud, Bundescloud, and GAIA-X reveals that rising privacy and data security issues have been integrated into cloud imaginaries that traditionally highlight progress and innovation. More specifically, state actors and cloud providers link and sometimes merge allegedly opposing technological aspects of innovation and politicised ideas of control such as digital sovereignty. This shift constitutes a move towards erecting political borders and localising IT within a global infrastructure.

Prediction is political: human choices about how to design and use predictive tools shape their effects. Approaching predictive technologies through the lens of political theory casts new light on how democracies should govern political choices made outside the sphere of representative politics. We must go beyond conventional theorising of AI ethics to wrestle with fundamental moral and political questions about how the governance of technology can support the flourishing of democracy.

As new revelations keep emerging, it is hard to predict the political consequences of the ongoing surveillance scandal. But ahead of this year’s general election, to be held by the summer, Greece still has an opportunity to start an honest debate on an issue which has long been swept under the carpet. Too optimistically has national reconciliation been identified with oblivion.

This article shows how the recording of ordinary experiences by digital devices can be a source of discrepancies between subjective representations and their digital transcriptions; how the sharing of these data on social networks and forums can be both a matter of experience sharing and participatory surveillance; and finally, shows how self-quantification by digital tools dialogues with the normative injunctions that users try to cope with.

Addressing the public contestation of the rollout of the fifth generation of mobile telecommunications networks (5G) in the Netherlands. The technological drama of 5G is constituted by tensions between different interpretations of these publicly performed meanings. However, amidst the drama, meanings of public need and imaginaries of 5G futures are temporarily suspended, constraining the stage for opposition and enforcing partial closure of the conflict.

Sovereignty is best understood as a complex network of three actors – nations, companies, and individuals – that exercise power against or on behalf of each other to claim sovereignty for themselves and to either weaken or strengthen the sovereignty claims of other actors. Since the results can be generalised from the particular context of contact tracing apps, they contribute to a better overall understanding of the concept of sovereignty in digital. This might be helpful for discussions about this technology, as well as about the regulation and governance of the digital in general.