Analog Virus, Digital Disease »

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28 April 2020 | By Rhoda Crocket

The global pandemic has shown some extremes of rights and regulations protections. Amid the lockdowns we’ve seen privacy under sharpest attack, copyright abused, and questionable overreaches in civil ... »

Hospital Pass – Is Insurance a Bump in the Road for Self-Driving Cars? »

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31 March 2020 | Peter Warren

In the minds of many, autonomous vehicles are the future dream, promising cheap, accident free driving where the old get around for longer and the young can get into cars earlier. For if cars drive t... »

Abstract Intelligence – How to Put Human Values into AI »

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27 March 2020 | by Ralf Grötker

Book Review: Human-Compatible – Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (Viking 2019) by Stuart Russell AI has severe limitations. Still we have reasons to worry – both because of these ... »

Wikipedia, Trolls and Copyright »

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18 December 2019 | Pete Warren

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia has lashed out at the EU Copyright directive calling it an attack on the way that people use the internet. Speaking in an exclusive interview during, a now annual ... »

A Global Moral for the Tech Companies? »

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27 November 2019 | Per Strömbäck, Editor

Netopia attended the annual Internetdagarna (“Internet Days”) conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Tuesday’s highlight was a panel on the tech companies’ moral obligations. On stage were the public pol... »

Catching the Flame – Television Everywhere or Tailored Content? »

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29 September 2019 | By Jane Whyatt and Renata Rat

Europe’s public service media risk becoming irrelevant if they cannot attract younger audiences to justify their licence fees. So innovative ideas for grabbing the attention of “digital natives” packe... »

GDPR – Springtime for Spammers »

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11 July 2019 | Rhoda Crocket, contributor

The much lauded GDPR has failed to achieve its hyped expectations. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has led to loopholes, and interpretations moulded to suit the business practice. ... »

Fighting Fake News with Bots and Buns »

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8 July 2019 | Jane Whyatt

Bots have a bad name in online news. They breed false stories, distort elections and spread hate speech. Avaaz reports that the 2019 European Parliament elections produced three million examples of th... »

Fake News Kills – 29 Deaths from Measles in Europe Last Year »

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2 July 2019 | Jane Whyatt

Measles is back in Europe. More than 8,000 cases were reported in 2018. Twenty-nine people died after catching the disease, which until recently was all but eradicated through childhood immunisation. ... »

Human Dignity vs Oppressive Force of Internet »

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17 March 2019 | Netopia

Three Questions to Douglas Rushkoff Netopia asks three questions to media theorist and writer, Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Present Shock et al. His ... »