Phoebe Braithwaite writes for WIRED UK. She was formerly a submissions editor at openDemocracy. She tweets at @phoebraithwaite.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesOur data doubles: how biometric surveillance ushers in new orders of controlThe use of biometric data brings the border within the body: algorithms' apparent objectivity and efficiency obscure...
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Published in: 50.50How UK anti-abortion activists use American tactics to shock and shame women50 years after the 1967 Abortion Act, the anti-abortion movement is consolidating – with transatlantic support.
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Published in: Shine A LightRefuse, retract, resist: boycott the schools censusAs the British state tries to make a register of foreign-born children, parents should question a liberal trust in...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesSmiling into the abyss: what is Facebook doing to our mental health?Lazy and unconcerned, or buckling under the strains of late capitalism? A manifesto for the selfie generation asks...
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Published in: HomeCan platforms be repurposed for progressive ends?The dream, for platform cooperators, is to supersede these Silicon giants with cooperatively-owned-and-run labour...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesWaking up to the UK’s Investigatory Powers ActThe myth that ‘this is a liberal democracy, these things don’t happen here’ is shattered. And now we have created an...