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Community Health: Young people in Ghana and Vietnam
This is the third and final edition of our series on young peoples’ digital health and human rights.Today we’re talking to Alberta Nadutey - a research officer for working on the Digital Health and…
Community Health: Colombia dating app dilemma
This week we're talking to Natalia Andrade and Laura Grisales Silva from Fundación Karisma about dating app data, the commodification of intimacy, and talking to Colombian young people about their…
Community Health: Kenya Data Debt Spiral
This week we're talking to Joan Musenya about life in Kenya as a young person - from mobile money, to data protection, to government surveillance. Joan is a member of the Kenyan Community Advisory…
War Machines feat Stop Killer Robots and PAX
This week we're joined by Professor Peter Asaro from Stop Killer Robots, and Frank Slijper, Arms trade project lead at PAX to discuss military uses of AI, including Anthropic's stand-off with the US…
Why governments struggle with ID
This week we're speaking to Professor Edgar Whitley - an expert on the design and implementation of ID systems. Links- More about Edgar: https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/edgar-whitley- More about the…
Ghosts in the SheLLM: Chatbot ethics with James Muldoon
This week we're discussing what happens when AI is trained on a dead person's data to bring them back as a chatbot. Find out more from Gus and Caitlin, and their guest James Muldoon, Reader in…
Sand in Trump's Gears: Lessons from America
This week we're talking to Ben Wizner from the American Civil Liberties Union about what the ACLU have been doing in the first year of Trump's second term, what the difference is between this time…
Moving Stories: Border Violence and Surveillance
Join us as we discuss Border Externalisation - what is it, and why does it drive violence at the border? We're joined by two fantastic guests - Dan from the Border Violence Monitoring Network to…
End of Life: Time to X goodbye to Windows 10
This week we're discussing the end of support (kind of) for Windows 10 - find out more from Chris and Tom about what you should worry about and what you can do now Windows 10 is officially (mostly)…
Militarisation of Tech: Redefining the Battlefield
This week we talk to Ilia and Serhat about the creeping militarisation of technology, and with it our societies.LinksAll of our militarisation work:…
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.Links- Expansion of…
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…
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…
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. Links: Read more from Defend Digital Me:…
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…
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;…
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. Links- Read our in-depth article about…
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…
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…
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…
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