#Technology Matters
Who Needs 5G in Malta? Certainly Not You!
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.
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FaceHook: A Confession of an Addicted Parent
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.
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Your Spy-Phone Robs You of Privacy. Here Is How We Can Change That
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.
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Surveillance Capitalism: the Business Model that Governs Your Life
Tech giants sell predictions about us. Incredibly accurate predictions.
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Link Taxes and Upload Filters Will Not Fix the Internet
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. [Read more…] about Link Taxes and Upload Filters Will Not Fix the Internet
‘Safe City Malta’: Is Privacy the Real Crux of the Matter?
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?
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Malta & Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Ways Forward
The duty of the state is to ensure that wellbeing of people and the environment are always prioritised before the profits of a handful—and the AI industry should be no exception.
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Let the Machine Do It
There is an urgent need for resource-conserving, smart, emission-neutral production processes. But as the supply of steady employment weakens, a highly competitive labour market and a restricted welfare state would dismantle democratic achievements and enhance authoritarian trends.
The Malta Blockchain Island: Can We Handle It?
It is not the first time that Malta has swiftly turned around legislation to grant a measure of order and clarity to emerging industries, creating what could be referred as a “legal certainty market”. However, this is far from risk-free.
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