Cars can collect data via cameras, microphones, sensors, and connected phones and apps. Our privacy laws need urgent reform if these data are to be kept safe.
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The laws about cookies are fairly clear in EU and UK, but many big companies are breaking them anyway.
Children are at the heart of the battle between usefulness and security. Can we trust Big Tech to find solutions to making computers, and life online, safer for them?
How did we become so submissive to a condition of constant surveillance that – except in spy movies or paranoid delusions – would have been considered preposterous a few decades ago?
Paradoxically, it is only when I disappear into the digital crowd that my personal data becomes interesting for digital merchants.
Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to heavily restrict Facebook’s APIs turns an opaque social network into an unaccountable black box.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has finally brought privacy concerns about personal online data to the masses – and action is urgently needed.
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook users seek answers on how their data is scraped and targeted.
Sooner or later, China will recognise the value of digital assets. This adds to the urgency of citizens ensuring they control the data trails that tell the world what they think and do.
Our whole system of political campaigning needs a reboot.
Welcome to the new Wild West.
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