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Published in: digitaLibertiesThe politics of artificial intelligence: an interview with Louise AmooreArtificial intelligence, in settings as diverse as politics, commerce, policing and warfare, amplifies longstanding...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU call it copyright, but it is massive Internet censorship and must be stoppedWe citizens battling for civil rights on the Internet will meet our obligation and fight the good fight. We’ll stop...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs the tide turning on regulating Facebook and Google?Facebook and Google are modern utilities - and natural monopolies - so they need a utility regulator.
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsOur governments share responsibility for the Cambridge Analytica crisis… and here’s how they should fix itGovernment must regulate before privatised military propaganda firms interfere with any more elections
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRussia, the internet and "political technologists" - is this the future of democracy?As more revelations emerge about Russian interference in Western democracies, Nick Inman reviews a BBC broadcast...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesTechlash: why Facebook’s approach to #FakeNews ultimately failsZuckerberg needs to take a step back and allow institutions to flourish. There are only bigger waves looming ahead.
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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...