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Resisting Surveillance

October 8, 2019 · Olaf Bruns & Shoshana Zuboff ·

Shoshana Zuboff’s new book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, explores a new step in the history of capitalism, where big tech is making profits with data, extracted from citizens without their consent—with destructive effects on the economy, democracy and individual lives.

Tagged With: democracy, GDPR, surveillance capitalism

Who Needs 5G in Malta? Certainly Not You!

October 3, 2019 · Michele Kipiel ·

Let us no longer focus on health, but rather on three other facets of 5G: who stands to profit from it, how is it going to affect our society and whether a country as small as Malta needs a 5G infrastructure at all.

Tagged With: public internet, surveillance capitalism, technology

FaceHook: A Confession of an Addicted Parent

June 28, 2019 · Anonymous ·

I have a baby and spending so much time on Facebook or checking the phone screen makes me feel like a terrible parent. My daughter is intrigued by the screen too.

Tagged With: addiction, Facebook, social media

Your Spy-Phone Robs You of Privacy. Here Is How We Can Change That Utopia for the Few. Part 2

June 3, 2019 · Michele Kipiel ·

Faced with the might of surveillance capitalism, one’s first reaction might be to despair and declare the battle lost. But we’re not done yet. In fact, there’s a lot we can do to tame the surveillance beast, both at the personal and political levels.

Tagged With: surveillance capitalism, technopolitics

Surveillance Capitalism: the Business Model that Governs Your Life Utopia for the Few. Part 1

April 12, 2019 · Michele Kipiel ·

Tech giants sell predictions about us. Incredibly accurate predictions.

Tagged With: Big Data, neoliberalism, privacy, surveillance capitalism

Link Taxes and Upload Filters Will Not Fix the Internet

January 22, 2019 · Adam Ostolski & Julia Reda ·

Big technology companies are not particularly worried about the link tax. YouTube and Facebook are the only companies in the position to use upload filters and they could start selling them to other smaller European platforms.

Tagged With: commons, democracy, link tax, upload filters

‘Safe City Malta’: Is Privacy the Real Crux of the Matter?

January 16, 2019 · Francois Zammit ·

Apart from privacy, the Safe City Malta project raises a number of issues that must be addressed by the Maltese authorities: Who will be storing the data? What will be done with the data? Who will be monitoring the data?

Tagged With: AI, algorithms, facial recognition, mass surveillance, technology

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