Privacy

Privacy, Periods Risks and a Digital Dystopia in a post-fall Roe v. Wade US

Paper

Prajakta Athlekar

12/02/2024

12 minutes to read

This paper examines the potential privacy risks associated with data collection and sharing by period tracking apps in a post-fall Roe v. Wade world.

“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.

MeWe: Mark Weinstein’s technological utopia

Paper

Nikki Bergmans

12/06/2023

15 minutes to read

This article unravels how Mark Weinstein questions the surveillance capitalist hegemony of Silicon Valley and discursively constructs a technological utopia by translating his beliefs into social media platform MeWe.

Surveillance & Geopolitics: Why the European Union Banned TikTok for Government Officials

Article

Iva Konstantinova

01/11/2023

13 minutes to read

This article analyzes the privacy policy of TikTok in comparison to that of Meta’s Instagram and Facebook because of their greater popularity and similarity in video streaming methods on the premise of the surveillance-industrial complex.

Twitter users' comments on the VVD quitting TikTok

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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BeReal: How Authenticity Turns into Violation of Privacy

Article

Anna Skorodihina

22/09/2023

13 minutes to read

This article looks at how the new social media platform BeReal structures its app to enforce what is called an expository society through behaviour modification and how it plays into societies of control, compromising user privacy.

A person using a tablet and stylus to draw

DeviantArt and AI: The showdown between manual playbour and automated playbour

Paper

Pak Wing Ng

27/11/2023

15 minutes to read

By looking at DeviantArt and its no-AI alternative Side 7, the article explores an issue of the security of users' artwork with the rise of AI art generators, as well as the way the platforms deal with artwork protection.

Apple's surveillance system in contemporary society

Paper

Gergana Mihaylova

29/05/2023

12 minutes to read

This article discusses how Apple surveils its users and influences their behavior through their multiple devices, violates their privacy, and exploits their data.