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Matt is a campaigner at We Own It.

Articles by Matthew Bramall

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Michael Edwards is editor of Transformation.

Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

The backfire effect, bad objects, and changing our minds online
David Beer
"Surveillance is the business model of the internet"
Agne Pix and Bruce Schneier
Pushing together solutions to polarization and manipulation in social media
Ricardo Poppi
Internet equality is about to get Trumped – let’s build a wall to defend it
Matthew Linares
Why BigData is running roughshod over the NHS - and what to do about it
Phil Booth
Shielding data from the "five eyes": we need to stand up for encryption
Rebecca Vincent
Child safeguarding cloaks state surveillance and data exploitation
Jen Persson
Theresa May’s counter-extremism plan will create an incompetent police state
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Why ban local authorities from running bus services?

Matthew Bramall 15 July 2016

Britain's House of Lords is debating a bill which will ban local authorites from running bus services, despite council-run buses being very successful.

'Overground will be run by TfL' – oh really?

Matthew Bramall 27 January 2016

The big announcement that south London rail services will be brought under Transport for London fails to mention one thing – the service will actually be operated by foreign firms, for profit.