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Published in: Pandemic Borders: FeatureThe rise of the border and surveillance industry and why you should be concernedOur world is becoming more walled due to the influence of private profiteers on governments – and increasingly...
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Published in: Pandemic Borders: 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 PalantirThe 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 ValleyThe 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 dealsDocuments 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 techHours 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 dataWhy 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: Pandemic BordersCOVID-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 pandemicTheir business model, challenged by numerous activists and analysts, is likely to gain further public acceptance, 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 reviewIf capitalism is failing us, what comes after? Oli Mould finds much optimism – though a few gaps – in Aaron...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia#Tech4Worse: The problem with digital labour initiatives for the Middle EastContrary to their marketing, digital labor schemes don’t work in spite of predicaments like the occupation or the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaPushing together solutions to polarization and manipulation in social mediaAlong with digital exclusion, polarization and manipulation are the main problems of digital democracy. Español
