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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThreat to our digital rights revealed in US-UK trade talks leakLeaked records of US-UK trade negotiations suggest the US is targeting our digital rights – and the UK seems...
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Published in: Human Rights and the InternetPrivate equity firm procures .org from the Internet Society, or: How the public interest got sold-out (again)ISOC has sold off something that was not theirs to sell off in the first place; a domain run by a not-for-profit...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesDemand data transparency everywhereIntroducing yourData: An openDemocracy project to show your data to you when it is used
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionAnother brick in the wall – can we save child rights from school surveillance?30 years ago the Berlin Wall fell, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was born. But British children’s...
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Published in: hriBRICS countries to build digital sovereigntyThe push towards digital sovereignty is frequently criticized as a Trojan horse for authoritarian measures. It's...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesBig Brother says ‘No’: surveillance and income management of asylum seekers through the UK ASPEN CardThe imposition of the ASPEN Card on those who are marginalised and unable to resist is no accident. It enables the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Welfare surveillance on trial in the NetherlandsCourts held hearings on a lawsuit by a number of groups concerned at the draconian Dutch system in late October,...
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Published in: ourEconomyDigital public assets should be democratised, not given away for private profit'Open’ government data has been captured by private interests. The only way to democratise the use of digital public...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesWe don’t need no education? – informing the misinformedTo know that information is false, you need to dedicate time and effort to verify things. Would you have the time,...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionHow facial recognition technology is bringing surveillance capitalism to our streetsFacial recognition cameras are bringing the datafication of the internet to the real world, threatening our right to...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesPrivacy is the new wilderness we must protectA new conception of privacy as an ambient, public good is necessary if we are to save our rights as individuals.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesHelp us create a more transparent webMedia organisations should lead on ethical web design. Help us do it.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesGranting Julian Assange political asylum was "the right thing" to do"We knew he was in real danger, as will be confirmed now; and that’s why we granted him political asylum. Right then...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAre China’s facial recognition trials really the example the Met police want to follow?“Each face is algorithmically cast over with suspicion, checked against the authority’s blacklist”.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesOur website: Laboratory of thought and code
To affect the flow of data and power, media organisations need to design the digital landscapes that we depend on....
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Published in: ourNHSEngland's NHS is embracing 'big data'. But who’s really benefiting?As the new NHS app launches this week, huge questions remain about what happens to our private health data - now a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?We need to look in a different direction to solve the current crisis of liberalismCan liberalism be saved from obsolescence and does this really matter? Did the recent European elections spare us...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesTowards an anti-fascist AIWe already know the destructive consequences on the individual and collective psyche of poverty, racism and systemic...
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Published in: HomeFacebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations, say insidersOn the eve of European elections, the tech giants stand accused of sabotaging the European Union’s fight against...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesDaniel Ellsberg: ‘‘Trump is challenging the First Amendment on Assange’s case’’“In my case… by the end of the same year I was indicted on twelve charges with a possible sentence of 115 years. I...