Privacy

The DevOps trends and tools putting a renewed focus on maintenance and care in tech

This post is sponsored by 10KMedia. After 12 months of uncertainty and crisis, resilience and stability have become more urgent…

February 10, 2021 4:14 pm

Science and intimacy: The troubling relationship between data surveillance and care

At the end of November, The Daily Mail published details of an investigation into how UK councils are working with…

December 15, 2020 11:57 am

Could big tech platforms improve democracy rather than undermine it? Possibly, says Common Wealth

The digital platforms that make up 'big tech' as we know it today have done very little for democracy. Ideas…

December 9, 2020 2:24 pm

The AWS outage exposes the fragility of our data-hungry digital economy

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, reported by The Verge, took down a huge number of applications and websites yesterday…

November 26, 2020 6:10 pm

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey face “partisan posturing” from senators

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey yesterday faced questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee. Unfortunately - but perhaps unsurprisingly - the…

November 18, 2020 2:36 pm

Explained: Surveillance capitalism (and what Shoshana Zuboff’s definition gets wrong)

The concept of surveillance capitalism is an important one in helping us to better understand our relationship with big technology…

November 17, 2020 3:06 pm

The U.S. military is buying your location data

A Motherboard investigation has found that the U.S. military is purchasing location data from a number of different apps. Although…

November 17, 2020 11:39 am

Apple macOS 11 – Big Sur – sparks privacy concerns

Apple has released MacOS 11.0: Big Sur. While it has been greeted with the usual fanfare that greets just about…

November 13, 2020 3:02 pm

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