Privacy

Healthcare in the future: PTSD & EMDR in 2045

Video

Elena Sofia Silva

07/06/2024

This podcast delves into the futuristic world of "Future Echoes" by Mary Thomson, exploring psychological narratives set in 2045 through the lens of trauma specialist Dr. Jane Washington.

How data activists are working against the current architecture of surveillance capitalism

Paper

Shakaya Janse

22/05/2024

13 minutes to read

Research about how data activism organizations are working against the current structure in the surveillance capitalism.

Edoardo Celeste on digital constitutionalism

Video

The Editors

13/05/2024

Major tech corporations rule their regions of the internet through their codes, and perform as judges over their digital subjects. These corporations, however, are not bound by the same constitutional principles as states, nor are they obliged to take into accounts human rights.

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.