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Published in: digitaLiberties: OpinionSuspicious algorithms: time to tame crime-predicting police technology
Garbage in, miscarriage of justice out – especially if you’re poor or Black
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Published in: Technology and Democracy: OpinionBeyond privacy: there are wider issues at stake over Big Tech in medicine
A focus on privacy can obscure broader questions about how Big Tech will reshape health and medicine – and...
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Published in: Technology and Democracy: OpinionThe EU should refocus the AI Act on workers and people
Proposed EU legislation on AI is driven by a desire for growth, with few provisions for safeguarding the rights of...
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Published in: Technology and Democracy: OpinionA ten-point manifesto for a Digital European Citizenship
How the EU can wrest control of the internet from big tech, and transform the digital sphere into a force for...
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Published in: Technology and Democracy: OpinionRegulating Big Tech is not enough. We need platform socialism
Facebook won't let state oversight trump shareholder interest, so alternatives – based on common ownership and...
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Published in: Technology and Democracy: OpinionWhat do the EU’s ambitious plans for a digital revolution mean for citizens?
The EU’s challenge isn’t just to make Europe fit for the digital age, but to ensure that the digital age fits...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureIsrael’s digital apartheid is silencing Palestinians
We urgently need international standards that would protect people from repressive governments and profit-driven...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: FeatureThe rise of the border and surveillance industry and why you should be concerned
Our world is becoming more walled due to the influence of private profiteers on governments – and increasingly...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionCould artificial intelligence improve decision-making in refugee cases?
Despite the risks that it poses, predictive technology could be a force for good in refugee systems under the right...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionWhy we’re suing over the £23m NHS data deal with Palantir
The UK government is battling ‘vaccine hesitancy’. How does sneaking through a massive deal with a controversial spy...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionSocial Media and the "repentant" of Silicon Valley
The documentary The Social Dilemma presents the issue of social media addiction and the rise of hate speech. The...
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Published in: ourNHS: InvestigationFresh concerns over privacy and profit in NHS COVID data deals
Documents released to openDemocracy suggest tech firms will profit from controversial deals – and that government...
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Published in: ourNHSUnder pressure, UK government releases NHS COVID data deals with big tech
Hours before openDemocracy was due to sue, government releases massive data-sharing contracts with Amazon,...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionWe must be told what Cummings and Palantir are doing with NHS data
Why is a firm backed by the CIA, and founded by a Trump-supporting billionaire, getting access to a massive store of...
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Published in: Migrant FuturesCOVID-19: can technology become a tool of oppression and surveillance?
Technology is not inherently democratic and its human rights impacts are particularly important to consider in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How data-mining companies are set to gain from the COVID-19 pandemic
Their business model, challenged by numerous activists and analysts, is likely to gain further public acceptance, to...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesOnline adverts know you too well
Behavioural Advertising 101: A brief introduction to the types of ads we encounter online — and what they know about us
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Published in: PodcastsourVoices Episode 1: Whose data? Our data!
In the first episode of ourVoices we explore the rise of big tech, and imagine a future where our data is used to...
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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: openDemocracyUKFully Automated Luxury Communism: book review
If capitalism is failing us, what comes after? Oli Mould finds much optimism – though a few gaps – in Aaron...