From to , the ResisTIC Criticism and circumvention of digital borders in Russia project team has endeavored to analyze how different actors of the Russian Internet RuNet resist and adapt to the recent wave of authoritarian and centralizing regulations by the Russian state, with a particular focus on online resistance that reveals so far lesser-known social practices and techniques for circumventing online constraints.
The empirical core of the chapter will provide an overview of a number of studies undertaken by the ResisTIC project team in the past few years. While the presentation of the case studies will by necessity be relatively brief, presenting them together will allow to draw some general conclusions about the state of infrastructure-based digital sovereignization in Russia. Article 40 of the European Digital Services Regulation DSA created a new legal framework that enables vetted researchers to access data from very large online platforms and search engines, in order to conduct research on these platforms and thereby increase the transparency and accountability of these platforms.
In October , the European Commission published a draft Delegated Regulation , specifying how researchers can take advantage of this legal framework, and launched a public consultation. We proposed certain amendments to the text of the draft Delegated Regulation, with the aim of reflecting common research practices and ensuring consistency with the intention of Article 40 of the Digital Services Act.
Our contribution is accessible online. The controversies surrounding the right to privacy of individuals in a hyperconnected world are longstanding debates, where particular emphasis is placed on encryption technologies, which encode information by converting its original representations into alternative forms that computers cannot decipher, thus ensuring the security of communications.
These technologies are at the heart of a public controversy, in which privacy advocates a clash with claims that encryption is a threat to general security as an enabler of subversive action. Recent developments in the armed conflict in Ukraine open up or renew questions such as: in times of war, what is the role of encryption and privacy technologies?
