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Tech Assisted Abuse: How smart devices can facilitate abuse
This month we speak to Dr Leonie Tanczer about her work looking at tech abuse: the use of “everyday” digital systems (computers, smartphones, apps) to coerce, control, and harm a person or groups of …
Published on 2 years ago
10 years since Snowden: Legacy, Law, and Litigation
In this episode we chat with Ben Wizner - Edward Snowden's lawyer, and the director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project - and Caroline Wilson Palow - PI's Legal Director about what …
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
GPS tracking migrants in the UK: Who profits?
This week we're discussing the UK Home Office's practice of forcing migrants to wear GPS ankle tags or carry GPS fingerprint scanners. Find out more about the policy, its impact on people, how the tr…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Election Observation: Data, Elections and a trip to Kenya
This week we’re joined by Lucy and Laura to discuss the use of technology in elections, and their time monitoring the Kenyan Presidential Election in 2022.
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Human rights abuses including unlaw…Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Protecting the protectors: a case from Colombia
This week we're speaking to Claudia Duque an Human Rights Defender and journalist for over 25 years, reported on crimes occurred during armed conflict and Emi, a Colombian lawyer defending press free…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
MI5 Lied...for years: a win for privacy
In January 2023, the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal handed down a landmark judgment. The Tribunal held that there were “very serious failings” at the highest levels of MI5 - the UK's domestic int…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Producing Real Change: Our 2022
This week we're having our own little christmas party, discussing things we've achieved throughout 2022.
Read more about the things we've achieved throughout the year, and donate to PI as much or as…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
How to Investigate Digital Forensics: Speaking to the UK's Former Forensics Regulator
This week we speak to Gillian Tully, the UK’s former forensic regulator about the importance and challenges that come with trying to ensure that forensic evidence submitted in court is of a high q…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Corporate Power with Cory Doctorow
This week we're talking to Cory Doctorow about his new book Chokepoint Capitalism - coauthored with Rebecca Giblin, his as yet unpublished next book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Comput…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
EdTech needs Schooling
This week we're talking about Education Technology: what is it? Why are schools using it? Is it safe? How can we make sure that children aren't being asked to sacrifice their right to privacy in or…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago