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The Information Commissioner opens a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes
Originally published on Information Commissioner’s blog on May 17th, 2017 In March we announced we were conducting an assessment of the data…
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The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
Originally published on faz.net Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new…
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Surrender to Surveillance – Virtual Futures Salon
Virtual Futures presents a discussion on technologies of surveillance, the infringements on privacy by the state, restrictions of individual freedom and the…
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Policy questions for 2022 – Net.wars by Wendy Grossman
For last weekend’s OpenTech I had recklessly suggested imagining the Daily Mail headlines of the future. Come to actually plan the talk,…
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Google’s You Tube rating illusion – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelican crossing.net on the net.wars column Before there was the internet there were commercial information services and conferencing systems.…
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Google vs book authors as Fair Use bites – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on the Net.Wars column on pelicancrossing.com This week, the veteran screenwriter Ken Levine started a thread on outdated terms in common use…
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Nu Web – what is to be done? Tim Berners-Lee on Internet regulatory ‘blind spots’ and political advertising scams
Originally published on March 12, 2017 Today is the world wide web’s 28th birthday. Here’s a message from our founder and web…
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What is next for tech journalism? – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.com on the Net.Wars column Yesterday in Cambridge, the veteran journalist Charles Arthur held an eventat the Centre for Research in the Arts,…
Read More » Facts are scarred – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net The late Simon Hoggart once wrote that the reason to take the trouble to debunk apparently harmless paranormal…
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The illusion of sovereignty – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
In the mid 1990s, John Perry Barlow, who later (1996) fleshed out his thinking in A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, used…
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