Digital policy and human rights
Big tech accountability? Read how we got here in The Closing of the Net
Customer Experience Management
Commitment at the top impacts the bottom line
by Dawn Bushaus
Will net neutrality help or hinder the drive for improved customer experience?
"Although the European Parliament did not set out to address the issue of net neutrality directly in the law, a compromise deal struck by lawmakers essentially opens the door for network operators to manipulate Internet traffic, explains Monica Horten, a veteran telecom journalist and PhD candidate researching copyright protection."
Published in Perspectives 2010: The Official TM Forum Yearbook
IP politics - news & views
- 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
Speaking engagements
- Political Studies Association Anti-politics Group February 2020
- European Parliament Micro-targetting & Profiling Event November 2019
- Council of Europe Workshop on Internet Intermediaries, Tbilisi December 2018
- Post Brexit International Trade - Maidenhead Chamber of Commerce Feb 2018
- GDPR & Brexit Presentation BCS - EuroCIO Event April 2018
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
States v the 'Net?
Read The Closing of the Net, by me, Monica Horten.
"original and valuable" Times higher Education
" essential read for anyone interested in understanding the forces at play behind the web." ITSecurity.co.uk
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