"We kill people based on metadata" - this statement by the former head of the American National Security Agency (NSA) Michael Hayden captures the potentially severe impacts of communications metadata surveillance. Such data, i.e., information on who communicates with whom, for how long, where,...

Globale Regulierungsprobleme im Internet-Bereich, wie sie etwa durch die Flut an Spam-Mails verursacht werden, verdeutlichen anschaulich die Grenzen traditioneller staatlicher Regulierung. In Reaktion auf diese staatliche Steuerungskrise vollzieht sich ein Politikwandel von traditionellem...

In recent decades, major regulatory reforms have changed the role of the state in the liberalised and convergent communications sectors of developed economies worldwide. The central characteristics of this transformed statehood in communications are, inter alia, a rising importance of...

This paper addresses the controversial subject of convergence in the communications sector and analyzes its regulatory implications for European competition policy with special emphasis on market power control. We start with a brief description of the changed societal communications system of...

Online services of public-service broadcasters in Europe are disputed because they directly compete with online activities of private media. Discussions are similar, but regulatory responses differ. In Switzerland a charter clarifies the conditions for online activities of the public broadcaster...

In recent decades, major regulatory reforms have changed the role of the state in the liberalised and convergent communications sectors of developed economies worldwide. The central characteristics of this transformed statehood in communications are, inter alia, a rising importance of...

Internet-based services that build on automated algorithmic selection processes, for example search engines, computational advertising, and recommender systems, are booming and platform companies that provide such services are among the most valuable corporations worldwide. Algorithms on and...

Algorithms have come to shape our daily lives and realities. They change the perception of the world, affect our behavior by influencing our choices, and are an important source of social order. Algorithms on the Internet have significant economic implications in newly emerging markets and for...