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What's News? Back to work!
This week we're back to discussing stories that have been in the news over the past few months - in particular the stories that have stayed with us and kept us thinking about them.
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- Expansion of…
Published on 7 hours ago
Rewilding the Internet with Maria Farrell
This week Gus and Caitlin are rewilding the Internet with Maria Farrell. What do you want using the internet or your devices to feel like? What can ecology teach us about unwinding corporate capture …
Published on 1 month ago
Cycles of Control: Reproductive rights and digital risks
This week we're talking to Martha Dimitratou from ReproUncensored, and PI's own Sarah Simms about the international landscape for reproductive rights, and including barriers to access to reproductive…
Published on 2 months ago
Learning about learners: Protecting Children's Data
This week we speak to Jen Persson, Director of Defend Digital Me, about the technologies being deployed in schools in England and Wales.
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Read more from Defend Digital Me: https://defenddigital…Published on 3 months ago
Why is my government undermining my security?: targeted and betrayed
This week we're talking to Gus about his experience being targeted by the Russian government, how it felt at the time, and then how it felt when he found out the government may be trying to undermine…
Published on 4 months ago
What's News?
Join us this week as we discuss stories that have been in the news that we're still wondering about, obsessing about, and are as confused about as you are.Links* 2G phone networks are being shutdown;…
Published on 5 months ago
Crash 8.5 million computers with this one weird trick: A CrowdStrike story
This week we're discussing the 2024 incident in which a malformed update of CrowdStrike Falcon caused 8.5 million computers running Microsoft Windows to crash.
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- Read our in-depth article about …
Published on 6 months ago
Counting every vote: Technology and voter data in Latin American elections
This week we're speaking to Eduardo from Transparencia Electoral about modern elections all over the world that they've observed, and Vladimir from R3D about the 2024 elections in Mexico. We find out…
Published on 7 months ago
Vertical Mergers: Competition, Connectivity, and Starlink
This week we're talking to Peter Bloom from Rhizomatica and Lũa Cruz from IDEC about internet connectivity, what drives social media companies to expand into internet provision, and what an earth is …
Published on 8 months ago
The End of Privacy in Public: Facial Recognition and the UK Parliament
This week we're talking about facial recognition in the UK. Our research shows that members of parliament (MPs) don't know as much as they should about facial recognition use in the UK. So, what is g…
Published on 9 months ago