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November 2018
As the Government prepares to publish its Internet Safety Strategy White Paper early next year, there is no shortage of advice in development to help Ministers decide on their way forward. Parliamentary inquiries on the impact of technology on our lives, being undertaken by the […]
November 2018
Here’s an opinion — the Digital by Default agenda is contributing to a loneliness crisis in the UK and Digital Inclusion is not the remedy for loneliness that I would love it to be. It’s clear from new research by the BBC[i] that the age group we might consider […]
November 2018
Universities have become a hunting ground for the unscrupulous hackers. Recently the Cobalt Dickins hacking group, which is linked to the Iranian government, was revealed to be behind an attempt to breach the systems of 76 universities in 14 countries. This included a number in […]
January 2018
It’s not just technology that will determine our digital future – the ethical, social and political decisions taken now will have an impact on all of us. Our increasingly digitised, disruptive and globalised world is transforming the way we live, work and play in exciting […]
December 2017
Many people perceive software as being free from bias, but it’s not. In a TEDx Talk, Joy Buolamwini, a researcher at the MIT Research Lab and an African-American, discusses how she dons a white mask because her face is often not detected by generic facial-recognition software […]
November 2017
Following the old saying that “knowledge is power”, companies are seeking to infer increasingly intimate properties about their customers as a way to gain an edge over their competitors. The growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI), algorithms that use machine learning to analyse large multifaceted data sets, provides […]
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