The technology firms are using the pandemic of COVID-19 to expand their reach, change their business strategies and capture new public functions and market positions around the world. We aim to relate the long-running investments in computer infrastructures with recent developments in business strategies to understand the implications of the rapid expansion of technology firms globally.
This was the second meeting our project has convened with European civil society organisations (CSOs) and other experts, in order to share the findings and test our conclusions from the project underway within the Global Data Justice project, based at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and funded by the European AI Fund.…
Introduction This meeting took place in the context of a project on sphere transitions and transgressions being conducted by the Global Data Justice team, based at Tilburg University, NL.…
English translation follows Dutch text. In de landen die het zwaarst door Covid-19 zijn getroffen, zijn er duidelijke aanwijzingen dat gemarginaliseerde groepen de ergste gevolgen van de ziekte dragen.…
Special Issue on Data, Law, and Decolonisation In this Special Issue on Data, Law and Decolonisation, the Technology and Regulation journal invites contributions that analyse the emergence of law for the digital economy at a global level (in terms of digital rights discourses, laws on data sharing, data for development in international law or competing privacy regulations) from a decolonial perspective.…
At the Global Data Justice Project, we are studying how technology firms are using their digital infrastructures to enter into new domains and create new markets for their products and services.…
This meeting was the starting point for a project to be conducted by the Global Data Justice team, based at Tilburg University, NL and funded by the European AI Fund.…
The Global Data Justice project is happy to announce the start of its new research initiative, entitled Sphere transitions and transgressions during COVID-19: Challenging the tech sector’s power grab in Europe.…
The developments in the case dealing with Facebook tracking its users beyond the social network have reached another level.…
2019 has been the year that the data economy went fully global.…
This week I had the privilege of participating in a Wilton Park conference on digital dignity in armed conflict organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross in association with the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.…
Places and populations that were previously digitally invisible are now part of a ‘data revolution’ that is being hailed as a transformative tool for human and economic development. Yet this unprecedented expansion of the power to digitally monitor, sort, and intervene is not well connected to the idea of social justice, nor is there a clear concept of how broader access to the benefits of data technologies can be achieved without amplifying misrepresentation, discrimination, and power asymmetries.
We therefore need a new framework for data justice integrating data privacy, non-discrimination, and non-use of data technologies into the same framework as positive freedoms such as representation and access to data. This project will research the lived experience of data technologies in high- and low-income countries worldwide, seeking to understand people’s basic needs with regard to these technologies. We will also seek the perspectives of civil society organisations, technology companies, and policymakers.
