Tech policy & human rights
Big tech accountability? Read how we got here in The Closing of the Net
Policy matters
Policy does matter. We may think that the Internet is a free digital environment, where no laws apply but there are many cases which contradict this notion.
In this section of Iptegrity.com, I report on EU policy related to the Internet and online content, in particular, where policy intiatives affect access to film, music and television, and I highlight issues for the policy debate in relation to the Internet. For 2008-2009, copyright enforcement has been the hot topic, with net neutrality emerging as well, in 2009. My focus is on the European Union and its member states - for example, I am currently covering Internet policy - specifically copyright enforcement intiatives - in France and the UK.
I am most interested in the citizen's perspective. However, the issues I cover will affect the Internet and telecoms industries, as well as the media and entertainment industries.
Iptegrity.com offers original reporting from the EU, as well as comment and opinion on issues raised in other media, including non-English language media in Europe. Iptegrity.com is the main English-language news source for the Telecoms Package review of EU telecoms law.
Does the Internet belong to corporations or to citizens? Who runs it? Who owns it? Who decides what’s on it? Is it going to turn into a TV with a Facebook extra? All of this is at stake. It’s a vote being forced by the telecoms industry, to spike any chance of Europe getting a net neutrality law after the Euro-elections. If this vote is lost, what can be done to save the Internet?More Articles...
- Confidentially TTIP – but is it private?
- Lex AT&T? EU Commisson’s TTIP proposal to revise telecoms law
- The EU's net neutrality compromise - what does it really mean?
- Net neutrality gets final scrutiny in EU Parliament - should we be alarmed?
- Adult content takedowns need judicial ruling, says former public prosecutor
- Notice of Action! EU Commission to revive take-down directive
- Europarl comes together on music licencing
- Should copyright enforcement be in the IP Bill?
- London police domain seizures under scrutiny after arbitration decision
IPtegrity commentary
- UK bulk intercept surveillance - court ruling calls for tighter safeguards
- Not a blank cheque: European Parliament consents to EU-UK Agreement
- Oversight Board Decision moves Facebook into human rights ambit
- UK border safety alert - mind the capability gap
- What? Will UK government ignore security as it walks away from EU?
- Britain unplugged: the security risk of no-deal
- Betting on a costly space race: MPs probe OneWeb satellite deal
- Disrupting supply chains: how leaving the Single Market means systemic breakdown
- Big tech and anti-trust: an ill-fitting suit?
- Schrems ruling puts a spoke in UK data flows from 2021
- Russia Report: how to balance social media and national security?
- Digital rights - why they matter in a time of coronavirus
- EU upload filter - Germany’s crucial deciding vote
- Copyright Directive upload filter - why EU Council should block it
- Data and Brexit – a mis-calculation?
- EU lawmakers seek to protect free speech in online content rules
- How Brexit rips up business models Part 2: visas for money and music
Published work
- Algorithms Patrolling Content: Where’s the Harm?
- Content responsibility: The looming cloud of uncertainty for Internet intermediaries
- Freedom of Expression, Human Rights Standards and Private Online Censorship
- The Policy Challenge Of Content Restrictions: How Private Actors Engage The Duties Of States
- Internet Policy Review - The Aereo dilemma and copyright in the cloud
My Linked In profileIptegrity in brief
Iptegrity.com is the website of Dr Monica Horten. I’ve been analysing analysing digital policy since 2008. Way back then, I identified how issues around rights can influence Internet policy, and that has been a thread throughout all of my research. I hold a PhD in EU Communications Policy from the University of Westminster (2010), and a Post-graduate diploma in marketing. I’ve served as an independent expert on the Council of Europe Committee on Internet Freedoms, and was involved in a capacity building project in Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine. I am currently (from June 2022) Policy Manager - Freedom of Expression, with the Open Rights Group. For more, see About Iptegrity
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States v the 'Net?
Read The Closing of the Net, by me, Monica Horten.
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In 2012, I presented my PhD research in the European Parliament.
