Fighting fake news: Caught between a rock and a hard place
Government regulation on fake news is unlikely to prevent malicious actors from meddling in our elections or polarising our societies.
Technology
Attribution is what states make of it
It is high-time for the Europeans to wake up from their hopes and dreams to build norms and rules for state behaviour in cyberspace
The UN GGE is dead: Time to fall forward
The top down UN GGE process appears dead in the water. International norms and laws for responding to cyber attacks must now be built from the bottom up.
Countering online radicalisation
Part of the solution is to rely on the internet’s most essential strength – its vast army of ordinary users
The Macron leak that wasn’t
So stark is the absence of interesting information that one could conclude that the Macronleak was a false flag operation designed to point the finger at Russia
Are Pirate Parties relevant to European politics?
In the 2016 parliamentary elections in Iceland, the Pirate Party celebrated its largest ever electoral success, winning 14.5 percent of the popular vote and securing…
The Way Forward: EU Digital Policies and Brexit (Part II)
The curtailment of law enforcement cooperation between the UK and the European Union will be an inevitable consequence of the British exit
The way forward: UK digital policies and Brexit (Part I)
The digital challenges related to Brexit are stark but clear. There is no excuse for any policy misstep from May's government.
The Apple tax bill is not protectionism
International conflicts are inevitable when governments challenge the excesses of multinational corporations
Policy challenges of the digital economy
Europe must embrace the digital world but also stay firm on its beliefs and views