This editorial introduces ten research articles, which form part of this special issue, exploring the governance of “European values” inside data flows.
Research Articles
This paper is part of Governing “European values” inside data flows , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Kristina Irion, Mira Burri, Ans Kolk, Stefania Milan. Introduction Governments’ interest in the “datafied society” (Hintz et al., 2018) as an object of policy and regulation is nothing new, with a long-held recognition
By analysing data governance models and inherent properties of data, we point towards public data commons as the model securing European values and increasing sharing.
News and Opinion Pieces
Germany: A change of (dis)course in digital policy
F5, a new German civil society coalition is calling for a change of perspective: digital policy must finally centre on promoting the common good.
This op-ed looks at Australia and asks whether Europeans need to worry about social media blocking access to news content.
Political advertising exposed: tracking Facebook ads in the 2021 Dutch elections
How can we monitor political ads circulating on social media in the run-up to an election? This essay learns from the project "Analysis of Political Ads in Digital Campaigns”, combining scraping methods and public opinion research to investigate how online advertising shape political preferences in the Dutch general elections (15-17 March 2021).
In this article, I propose a distinction between individual harm, collective harm and societal harm caused by artificial intelligence (AI), and focus particularly on the latter. By listing examples and identifying concerns, I provide a conceptualisation of AI’s societal harm so as to better enable its identification and mitigation. Drawing on an
This paper is part of Governing “European values” inside data flows , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Kristina Irion, Mira Burri, Ans Kolk, Stefania Milan. Introduction The entrenchment and establishment of particular rights has from the outset been part of the advancement of the European project and how the European
This paper investigates challenges arising for Value Sensitive Design due to the distribution of power in socio-technical ecosystems.
This article assesses the bidirectional interaction between meso- and macro-level data governance frameworks.
The extraterritorial application of GDPR does not promote European values. Rather, it evokes wrong expectations about the universality of individual rights.
By analysing data governance models and inherent properties of data, we point towards public data commons as the model securing European values and increasing sharing.
This paper process-traces how European policymakers have delegated regulatory responsibilities to private certification and monitoring bodies acting as regulatory intermediaries. It explores how regulators can constrain or incentivise self-regulation that exists in their shadow via intermediaries, instead of using direct modes of regulation.
Standards impact technology leadership, more so where they precede market launch. European values are therefore important for European technology in ICT markets.

