As Wikileaks reveals yet more details of the astonishing extent of GCHQ mass surveillance, where is the proof that bulk data collection even works?
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A web obsessed with gathering data about our habits becomes less valuable to us, showing us only more and more of the same.
Firms want your data, but if they offer to pay it’s likely they stand to gain more than you do.
Windows 10 is being offered as a free upgrade to most Windows users, but you pay for it in the information you hand over to Microsoft.
Growing up is never easy – especially when your childish status updates are still online.
When hackers take down companies in response to their actions, security chiefs need to know what the CEO is saying in public.
Government could be forced to repeal DRIPA surveillance legislation after court ruling.
Privacy advocate broadsided any deserving criticism, including his employers.
While greater data protection in Europe seems inevitable, the eventual form it takes is still up for grabs.
David Anderson’s report on surveillance isn’t a charter for online privacy but it could create problems for a government set on capturing all our data.
US intelligence agencies can no longer collect and store the telecommunications data of US citizens but other countries are strengthening their efforts.
Technology might make online access to medical records possible, but that doesn’t mean we should.
The UK and other governments seem set on the idea that finding needles can be made easier by radically increasing the size of the haystack.
The Apple Watch represents a significant shift from handheld technology to devices that become an invisible part of our lives.
Freed of the Liberal Democrats’ influence, here are some of the things the Conservative government has in store for us.
Legislation is passed in France that would see state surveillance powers scale towards those in the US and UK.
Ensuring it’s adults that must process their adult emotions - and not children stumbling across them through pornography - is the adult thing to do.
Teenagers need to trust their parents and learn about trusting others. Apps like Teensafe might undermine both.
The Liberal Democrats have been a lone voice among the parties calling for a digital bill of rights governing our growing use of the internet. But is it the right solution for the problem in hand?
Many people are shocked by what children are willing to share about themselves online. Is it that they don’t understand privacy, or just have a different conception of it compared to adults?
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice; Lead, UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative, UNSW
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Senior Lecturer in Technology, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Professor specialising in Internet law, Bond University
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Professor of Global Politics and Cybersecurity, UCL
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Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, Indiana University