Something good could come from the Cambridge Analytica scandal if we used the same data to fix society, rather than profit from it.
- Professor of Contemporary Philosophy and Literature, Brunel University of London
When politics and political institutions are trolled by the internet, the outlook is grim.
The UK government’s move to electronically track criminals on parole shows how wearable technology can become a virtual prison.
When drug companies refused to ship chemicals to the US for use in lethal injections it led to several botched executions, reopening the debate over the death penalty.
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