The surveillance disclosures triggered by Snowden have fueled the public re-negotiation of privacy. To follow resulting … two oscillating governance modes at work in the privacy arena; their interplay results in an obstruction. Based on this …

Data privacy rights is one of the most urgent issues in contemporary digital policy. In the face of insurgent citizen … stringently regulate social media companies when it comes to data privacy; and the government-mandated creation of a Consumer Data … up, or connected by any common goal of really understanding, or acting on, citizen concerns to do with data privacy …

This contribution provides a short introduction into the conceptual and socio-technical development of privacy. It … identifies central issues that inform and structure current debates as well as transformations of privacy spurred by digital … technology. In particular, it highlights central ambivalences of privacy between protection and de-politicization and the …