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Immunity passports and Covid-19: an explainer

Content Type: News & Analysis

Most cities are already ‘smart’ – just, not for the people who live in them

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Content Type: News & Analysis

Mental health site sharing your personal data? We're going after them

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GPS tracking and COVID-19: A tech primer

NHS
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UK government Covid tracking app: what we found

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International Health Day during a pandemic: an opportunity to reflect

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Researchers scraped videos of transgender vloggers off YouTube without their knowledge to train facial recognition software

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Facebook expands advertising transparency

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Future Scenario: Data Rights

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Future Scenario: National Data Funds

Data as labour
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Future Scenario: Data Labour

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Privacy protests lead Mattel to cancel child-focused AI smart hub

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Your Tesla is watching you—whether or not you’re watching the road

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Bricks-and-mortar retailers adapt online tracking techniques for the physical world

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Big data intelligence company builds advertising audiences from mobile tracking at Iowa caucuses

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Researchers test using smart card travel ticket data to find pickpockets

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Singapore enhances smart city programme with pervasive data collection

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Royal Parks covertly tracks visitors via mobile phone data

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New police technologies assign individual "threat scores"

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Affective computing provides new frontier in user manipulation

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Nest cameras continue monitoring surroundings even when switched "off"

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Banks turn to smartphone metadata to assess lending risk

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The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’

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Social media sites push back against police

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Governments adopt social media as tool for surveillance and propaganda

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TomTom sells location data to police

DS
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Uber's dynamic pricing revelations shows firm analysing battery levels

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MIT device uses wireless signals to identify emotions

DS
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Baidu aggregates map search data to predict crowd formation

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Fighting data-exploitative business models