Long Reads
This series produced in collaboration with Corporate Watch profiles ten companies and their products aiming to demonstrate how technologies developed for the battlefield are now shaping civilian life.
We are living through a moment of profound transformation as military imperatives and corporate interests are no longer separate threads in the fabric of technological innovation. Instead they are inseparably interwoven. “Innovation” is increasingly framed not as a response to a concrete human need
Check out our Tech, Data and Elections Card Game, which explores important topics like:
- ♥ Hearts: Why data protection matters during the election cycle
- ♦ Diamonds: What tech is being used in the administration of elections
- ♠ Spades: What regulations apply to political parties and other political actors
- ♣ Clubs: The role of the internet and social media in elections and political campaigns
Following the publication of our Technology, Data and Elections Checklist, we have created a deck of Tech, Data and Elections Playing Cards. Both the checklist and the deck of cards aim to give electoral observers and civil society the necessary tools to understand and question the role of
In England’s schools, children are tracked from birth through a vast, opaque network of digital systems that turn education into a lifelong exercise in data collection and surveillance.
In England’s schools, children are not only pupils but also data subjects. From the moment they are born, a digital record begins to take shape — one that will follow them through nursery, primary school, secondary education, and in many cases well into adulthood. What was once a matter of paper
Digital Health Technology Assessment is needed to make sure that tools developed by the private sector and relied on by public healthcare providers do not harm people and their rights.
Across the world, public healthcare providers are going digital in efforts to improve and modernise the services they offer. Whether it's apps that track symptoms, remote video consultations or cutting edge AI diagnostics, digital tools that support healthcare are often produced and supplied by
This article summarises Privacy International's view on why a rights based approach to digital health is needed for privacy.
Introduction Healthcare needs privacy. Sometimes this is obvious: patient-doctor confidentiality means that our conversations with healthcare providers must remain private. But there are deeper, more complex, and at times more contested, questions too. For example, over who should have access to
Desde la selva del Amazonas hasta el África subsahariana, las empresas de tecnología buscan ampliar su dominio invirtiendo en infraestructura de conectividad. Si bien es cierto que esto ha traído algunos beneficios, también genera preocupación, pues los gigantes tecnológicos están incursionando en nuevos territorios.
INTRODUCCIÓN Desde hace algunos años, los modelos de negocio de las grandes plataformas tecnológicas han evolucionado a gran velocidad. A pesar de su posición dominante en varios mercados, los gigantes tecnológicos como Google y Meta están incursionando en nuevos territorios con el fin de ampliar
Big Tech is now in the business of enabling government surveillance. It was just a matter of time before they became tools of war and abuse.
In their gold rush to build cloud and AI tools, Big Tech is also enabling unprecedented government surveillance. Thanks to reporting from The Guardian, +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Intercept, we have insights into the murky deals between the Israeli Government and Big Tech firms. Designed to
There is an urgent need for the regulation of facial recognition technologies in the UK to protect people from the grave risk it poses to human rights. In light of this, we conducted research to see how other states and jurisdictions are regulating biometric technologies.
Across the world facial recognition technologies (FRT) are increasingly being deployed in public and private spaces without adequate laws or regulation to protect individuals from the grave risks they pose to human rights. States rely more and more on this technology for public mass surveillance
Model Context Protocol (MCP) can extend the capabilities of AI chatbots into your life, but what are the consequences for our privacy and security?
To justify the obscene amounts of money they have raised, AI firms are trying to convince people that their chatbots can do a lot more for you than just write emails and generate studio Ghibli images of your cat. So far, a lot of these promises have either fallen flat or simply never materialised
Essential protections are lacking as governments and industry rush to militarise our tech, data and societies.
Governments are increasingly relying on data-intensive systems, both to wage wars and to administer public services. These systems, increasingly provided by the same firms using similar tools, will come to affect our day-to-day lives whether we are in war zones or town squares. This is the era of