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“Hey Google, is buying your smart home speaker actually that smart?”

Paper
Isobel Huisman
08/01/2024
12 minutes to read

Smart home devices have made our lives easier, but at what cost? This paper aims to explore what privacy issues voice interactions with the Google Nest speaker raise for its users and why we choose to continue to use these speakers. 

Twitter users' comments on the VVD quitting TikTok
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Digital privacy or geopolitics: perspectives on the VVD leaving TikTok

Article
Femke van Bree
15/01/2024
12 minutes to read

On April 13th, 2023, the VVD announced their retreat from TikTok. How did Twitter users respond to this announcement, and which perspectives regarding TikTok and digital privacy arise? This article intends to find answers to these questions. 

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Self-Tracking Data and its Commercial Uses

Article
Marieke Hendriks
07/11/2019
14 minutes to read

The commercialization of self-tracking data introduces new privacy risks as a consequence of the 'biovalue' that health and medical information have in the digital data economy.