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Digital Policy Explained: Who Makes the Rules for Technology
A plain-language overview of the lawmakers, regulators, courts, companies and standards bodies that shape the rules for technology, and the tools they use.
Policy and Governance
Digital Policy and Privacy
How rules and norms shape data, platforms and online life.
Consent in the Digital Age: What Clicking Agree Really Means
Why consent notices and agree buttons are used, what valid consent often requires, and the practical limits that make clicking agree a weak form of choice.
Cookies and Online Tracking Explained
How cookies, pixels, fingerprinting and other methods let websites recognize visitors, why they are used, and what the privacy debate around them is about.
Data Breach Notification: What Organizations Are Often Expected to Do
Why many places require organizations to tell regulators and affected people after a data breach, what notices typically contain, and how timing and triggers vary.
Data Sovereignty and Where Information Is Stored
Why the physical and legal location of data can matter, how data residency and localization differ, and the arguments for and against keeping data within borders.
Net Neutrality: The Debate Explained
What net neutrality means, the arguments for and against rules requiring equal treatment of internet traffic, and why the debate keeps returning in policy circles.
Platform Liability: Who Is Responsible for Online Content
How legal systems approach responsibility for user-posted content, the arguments for and against broad platform immunity, and why the balance is still contested.
Right to Be Forgotten: Erasure Requests Explained
What the right to be forgotten and erasure requests mean, when organizations may have to delete personal data, common limits and exceptions, and the debate.
What Is Personal Data and Why Definitions Matter
How laws define personal data, why identifiable, pseudonymous and anonymous information are treated differently, and why the definition decides which rules apply.
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