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Published in: digitaLibertiesDo you agree?: What #MeToo can teach us about digital consentThe conversation around sexual consent could radically change the way we think of consent online.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesFacebook and journalism. Part twoFacebook has fundamentally changed the news ecosystem and has, in fact, jeopardised press freedom and plurality –...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesIn the era of artificial intelligence: safeguarding human rightsToday, it is all too easy for governments to permanently watch you and restrict the right to privacy, freedom of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU is killing our democratic spaces using copyright as a Trojan horseDiEM25’s position on Copyright Reform: democratize technology instead of allowing it to be used as a giant...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesCIA whistleblower: ''No regrets. I would do it all again''Whistleblower John Kiriakou explains why he and fellow-whistlebower Thomas Drake are committed to alerting their...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAs Cambridge Analytica and SCL Elections shut down, SCL Group's defence work needs real scrutinyWe can’t understand the significance of Cambridge Analytica without looking at the network it sits in, and how...
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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: digitaLibertiesDoing anti-surveillance activism differentlyRecent campaigns waged in two Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries provide some interesting...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesMicrosoft’s Tech Accord – what it tells us about the cyber state of playIn the current climate, the impact of the Cybersecurity Tech Accord which, without explicitly saying it, gestures...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesIn this age of populism, it’s not ‘Cyber’ that’s being Balkanised – it’s peopleThe Balkans, already facing charges of bringing the world the First World War and the term ‘ethnic cleansing’, are...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesThe Cam-Book gate scandal will not restore our privacy, will it?For us to care about the practices of corporations, reclaim our privacy and contest mass-surveillance we should not...
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Published in: HomeDreadful symmetry: kill boxes, racism and US sovereign power in the digital ageNearly all of the killings and excuses for killings carry this mark of the “pre-insurgent”. All the time we hear,...
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Published in: HomeManifesto on algorithmic humanitarianismThe nature of machine learning operations mean they will actually deepen some humanitarian problematics and...
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Published in: HomeSnowden to Cambridge Analytica – making the case for the social value of privacy
Constitutionally inculcated rights and morality are slowly being undone “by the use of automated processes to assess...
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Published in: HomeCambridge Analytica: the outrage is the real storyThe bitter pill many refuse to swallow shows the difference between the world we think we’re in, and the one we...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsCambridge Analytica is what happens when you privatise military propagandaYou can't understand the Cambridge Analytica scandal until you understand what its parent company does.
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Published in: digitaLiberties‘Cambridge Analytica’: surveillance is the DNA of the Platform EconomyThe current social mobilization against Facebook resembles the actions of activists who, in opposition to neoliberal...
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Published in: HomeFrom Obama to Cambridge Analytica: how did we get here? (Podcast)Where did the controversial 'influence campaigns' come from? Two Obama volunteers look back at the revolution they...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesThe Cambridge Analytica scandal is a drop of water trickling down the visible top of an iceberg. Focus on decentralizing powerWe need open and robust debates. We cannot afford anything less than this. Too much is at stake. Part Three.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe problem isn’t just Cambridge Analytica or Facebook – it’s “surveillance capitalism”We’ve ended up with an internet built not for us – but for corporations, political parties, and the state’s...