Shane chats with former NSA spy and whistleblower Edward Snowden on the rise of authoritarianism during the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s all of this data being collected, how are the government so when in in South Korea, I get a text saying oh you met Joe Blow, he might be infected you should, you know sequester …
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Surely, if offered a choice between suffering financial hardship and a temporary invasion of privacy and civil liberties, many people would opt for the latter. While some fiercely object to any threat to our privacy, the unremitting popularity of Facebook — even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal — suggests that most people are happy to …
Our everything-digital era has made it easier to preserve every last scrap of information about our lives, but eventually, many of us will have to face the question of who really controls our photo albums, letters, diaries, and other personal mementoes stored in the cloud or on password-protected hard drives. As it is, tech companies …
It’s painful having to navigate the privacy consent forms for online services, and that’s before being able to find what you’re looking for from the endless permutations on offer. For the cash rich – time poor have long employed personal assistants to relieve them of this chore. But what about the rest of us? In …
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A 2-part blog series for anyone interested in the protections that exist for customers who chose to access their financial data through third-party providers. We hope readers will come away with a clearer view of the different roles of businesses involved in open banking. Part I is about the ‘data retrievers’ — account information services …
“The story of Digitalism explains the future as a struggle for data among companies and (certain) governments trying to collect as much data as possible and citizens trying to protect their data and privacy. Digitalism envisions a world where data is the most important resource in society. It thrives on capitalism and depending on the …
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“Michele Loi is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. He argues that proponents of privacy should not put privacy above health – else risk sliding into irrelevance. [..] The second risk for privacy is paradoxical: it follows from having “too much respect” for privacy itself. If our concern with privacy prevents urgent political action …
“The Italian Court goes beyond the assumption that personal data as the expression of personality rights, subject to specific and not renounceable forms of protection cannot be treated at the same time as an economic asset when they are collected and processed by an organization to extract economic value. In such a context, if the …
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In recent years both governments and corporations have been using ever more sophisticated technologies to track, monitor and manipulate people. Yet if we are not careful, the epidemic might nevertheless mark an important watershed in the history of surveillance. Not only because it might normalise the deployment of mass surveillance tools in countries that have …
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