Digital Rights, Privacy and Data Protection

People

Kate Coyer

Digital media has created new opportunities for new kinds of communication, but also placed constraints on our ability to live private lives.  We research contemporary privacy norms, technology use trends, and data protection issues.

News

October 9, 2018
Coyer Speaks at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Conference on Radicalization and De-radicalization
September 21, 2018
What the New Copyright Directive Will Mean For Press Publishers and Journalists
August 18, 2018
Verhulst Among World’s 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government
June 13, 2018
Who's Influencing the Media In Slovakia
April 25, 2018
Ranking Digital Rights Launches the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index

Projects

Media Influence Matrix
Researcher: Marius Dragomir, Eva Bognar, Tom Popper, Dean Starkman, Dumitrita Holdis, Philip M. Napoli, Amy Brouillette, Susan Abbott, Minna Aslama, Kate Coyer, Francesca Fanucci, Attila Batorfy , Jessie Labov
Virtual Center of Excellence for Research in Violent Online Political Extremism (VOX-POL)
Researcher: Kate Coyer, Eva Bognar
Ranking Digital Rights
Researcher: Amy Brouillette, Kate Coyer, Elisabetta Ferrari, Rian Wanstreet
European Privacy and Human Rights
Researcher: Kristina Irion

Publications

November 23, 2015
New Report by CMDS Fellows Lina Dencik and Arne Hintz
November 3, 2015
Kristina Irion's op-ed on Cloud Services after Snowden
October 28, 2015
Lina Dencik and Oliver Leistert: Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest
April 20, 2015
Shawn M. Powers and Michael Jablonski: The Real Cyber War
February 2, 2015
Best practices for securing digital communications

Blog

December 19, 2014
On the Protection of Journalistic Sources
December 19, 2014
Best Practices and Tips for Using Confidential Sources

Events

June 20, 2018
Media Power and Fake Democracies: An Activist Response
March 8, 2018
Is Public Reason Still Possible? Populism, Media, and New Transformations of the Public Sphere
March 23, 2017
The Launch of the Ranking Digital Rights 2017 Corporate Accountability Index
March 14, 2017
Networked Authoritarianism and the Geopolitics of Information: Understanding Russian Internet Policy
November 24, 2016
Trade and Privacy: Complicated Bedfellows? How to Achieve Data Protection-Proof Free Trade Agreements