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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...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesThe cure for what ails Silicon Valley? An online advertising taxThere’s been a massive transfer of wealth from media that produce journalism to those that don’t. The answer may...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOnce we searched Google, now Google searches usMark Kernan reviews Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesWho’s afraid of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?Confusing the persona – “Assange” – with the impact of Wikileaks, masks the chilling effect that his extradition...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesIndustry standards won't give artificial intelligence a conscienceMarc Böhlen is part of the team developing universal benchmarks for ethical artificial intelligence. He tells us why...