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Military tech is seeping into our daily lives, raising urgent questions about who controls our civic life and shapes our future.

Find the answers to all the questions you have regarding the UK's secret Technical Capability Notice (TCN) powers, Apple, and our fight against them.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) can extend the capabilities of AI chatbots into your life, but what are the consequences for our privacy and security?

Essential protections are lacking as governments and industry rush to militarise our tech, data and societies.

The entanglement of civilian and military data ecosystems blurs legal boundaries, creating critical gaps in privacy and accountability protections.

The next wave of Militarisation of Tech is here and it comes in many shapes and forms.

The data revolution is coming to warzones and back to our town squares.

We think federated social media represents a better vision for the internet. Here's an exploration of what it is, and why we like it. 

The next generation of AI Assistants may seek extensive access to our personal data, accounts and devices features. Can we trust their developers to protect our privacy and security?

The CrowdStrike incident earlier this year had major implications for governments and businesses across the world. Here, we look at what it tells us about the security and robustness of the modern internet. 

The concept of privacy is essential for Indigenous peoples to exercise their right to autonomy and self-determination, enabling them to better protect their cultural heritage and prevent external control, exploitation, and surveillance of their lands and identities.

Private companies, including Big Tech, are responsible for a large number of digital health tools. While there may be benefits to health, there are also potential threats to your privacy from these initiatives.

In this piece, we outline some of these tools and give some examples of Big Tech involvement in digital health and consider what sort of future a Big Tech dominated vision of digital health might hold for your rights, your autonomy and our society

This piece highlights concerns over the increasing use of data-intensive technologies in educational spaces (EdTech) and examines - among other things - how their unchecked implementation can jeopardize students' rights and education through potential privacy violations, discrimination, and the lack of student input in the adoption of these technologies.

Surveillance databases are on the rise all around us and with them comes a wider array of issues. Here we begin to unpack these concerns and discuss some of the prominent global drivers of this trend.