The concept of surveillance is indispensable for understanding the digital age, even as it requires constant inflection.
Research articles on Privacy & Security
A “non-user,” as the name suggests, refers to an individual who does not use a given product or system. Critical work on non-use elaborates a range of applications for the term we consider here. The variations of non-use under discussion encompass both voluntary and involuntary cases of non-use.
PIMS typically employ technical, legal and organisational measures for enabling users to manage and control their data.
This systematic review explored 23 studies to establish whether the YouTube recommender system facilitates pathways to problematic content.
This glossary entry explores traceability which is an increasingly prominent research topic in decentralised technosocial systems in fields as diverse as health, sustainability, finance, and supply chain management and relates to the ability to trace something or someone.
The social appropriation of new technologies refers to technological and social processes of mediation in the interaction between social actors and technological devices.
The planned sharing of UK patients’ data is controversial. What lessons can be learned for ethical and legal governance of health data?
Has the GDPR changed privacy in apps? We study how third-party tracking—a common privacy threat—has changed since the GDPR was introduced.
Virtual reality—a central technology to Facebook’s metaverse ambitions—is a powerful digital sensor. But whose interests does it serve?
Feminist theories have extensively debated consent in sexual and political contexts. But what does it mean to consent when we are talking about our data bodies feeding artificial intelligence (AI) systems?
