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Content type: Long Read

Your future AI Assistant still needs to earn your trust

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Content type: Examples

Personalised online ads enables invisible - and illegal - discrimination

DE Story
Content type: Examples

Databases of facial images proliferate

DE Story
Content type: Examples

Lawsuit alleges that Bose headphones spy on users

Case Study: Super-Apps and the Exploitative Potential of Mobile Applications
Content type: Case Study

Case Study: Super-Apps and the Exploitative Potential of Mobile Applications

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Content type: Long Read

The companies in control of our secret identities

Content type: Examples

"The Unsuspected Power of Big Data"

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Content type: Frequently Asked Questions

Q&A on UK regulator's action on data brokers

Content type: Examples

Australian contact tracing app fails on iPhones

Content type: Examples

Researchers scrape social media for masked faces to train AI models

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Content type: Video

New technologies and electoral processes: online campaigning in social media platforms

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Content type: News & Analysis

Pass Notes on the proposed Google / Fitbit merger

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Content type: Video

Public opinion about data-driven election campaigning in the UK

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Content type: Long Read

Country case-study: sexual and reproductive rights in Argentina

Art on contraception
Content type: Long Read

Country case-study: sexual and reproductive rights in Indonesia

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Content type: Long Read

Covid Contact tracing apps are a complicated mess: what you need to know

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Content type: Long Read

Country case-study: sexual and reproductive rights in Peru

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Content type: Long Read

Rage Against Data Dominance: A New Hope

How to minimise targeted ads on social media: Uber
Content type: Explainer

How to minimise targeted ads on social media: Uber

Ads that think they know you
Content type: Examples

Ads that think they know you - including your politics

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Content type: Guide step

Cómo instalar un bloqueador de anuncios en Chrome (y derivados) - uBlock Origin

Block Ads Chrome
Content type: Guide step

Block Ads on Chrome (and derivatives)

Content type: Examples

US intelligence chiefs warn of new data manipulation cyber threat

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Content type: Examples

Uber's dynamic pricing revelations shows firm analysing battery levels

Content type: Examples

StatSocial analyses 1.3 billion social accounts 

Video: What is Data Exploitation?
Content type: Video

Video: What is Data Exploitation?

big data meets Big Brother
Content type: Video

Video: What Is Big Data?

Big Data
Content type: Explainer

Big Data

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Content type: News & Analysis

Do early steps into agentic AI respect our needs for privacy and security?

Content type: Call to Action

Ask advertisers why they have your data!