The concept of surveillance is indispensable for understanding the digital age, even as it requires constant inflection.
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The data broker industry is a mostly unknown, invisible, pervasive and concerning protagonist of surveillance capitalism that deserves much more public scrutiny.
Cypherpunk refers to social movements, individuals, institutions, technologies, and political actions that, with a decentralised approach, defend, support, offer, code, or rely on strong encryption systems in order to re-shape social, political, or economic asymmetries.
Digitally-disadvantaged languages face multiple inequities in the digital sphere, with their speaker communities frequently experiencing the duality of digital neglect and surveillance. These languages suffer from gaps in digital support, and when support does exist, it often makes speaker communities vulnerable to surveillance and gaps in content
Sexism and racism intersect in the most recent debate on police use of DNA technology, building on right-wing populist sentiments.
The UK welfare system relies on gender stereotyping and, increasingly, on surveillance: risking a vicious cycle of categorisation and control
Can public authorities in the EU continue using US cloud services in light of the EU Court’s view of the US surveillance regime? Maybe, but it will require a lot of work.
Cybersecurity describes technical and social measures needed to protect networked information systems. But its evolution has led to concerns of inappropriate militarisation.
Facing fragmentation of digital space in the Snowden aftermath, this article considers regulatory models available to avoid the balkanisation of the internet.
This paper is part of Geopolitics, jurisdiction and surveillance , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Monique Mann and Angela Daly. Introduction Since the Snowden revelations in 2013 (see e.g., Lyon, 2014; Lyon, 2015) an ongoing policy issue has been the legitimate scope of surveillance, and the extent to which individuals
