Press Coverage

30 December 2020, Reuters

From whether governments should use facial recognition for surveillance to what data internet giants should be allowed to collect, 2019 was marked by a heated global debate around privacy and technology.

7 February 2020, The Guardian

There are many reasons to fret about our relationship to technology, not least of which is the way smartphones, and their slot machine-like apps, have hooked us so thoroughly

5 February 2020, New York Times

While stopping short of an outright ban, the social media company plans to label or take down material that appears to have been digitally manipulated.

3 February 2020, Irish Times

Researchers are now challenging the link between social media use and mental health problems among teenagers

3 February 2020, UOL

"O trabalho dignifica, valoriza e enobrece o homem." Na contramão desse ditado, a tecnologia e a automação sempre tiveram propostas mais lenientes: quando os robôs puderem nos dar uma forcinha, finalmente poderemos trabalhar menos.

20 January 2020, BBC News

The BBC's Ivana Davidovic speaks with Ocean Capewell, who used the Sims game to help her deal with tragic loss. Robert Steen discusses the positive impact the community of people playing World of Warcraft had on his son, Mats, who died at the age of 25.

18 January 2020, New York Times

A growing number of academics are challenging assumptions about the negative effects of social media and smartphones on children.

13 January 2020, BBC News

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill has deleted his Facebook account, lambasting the company's political ads policy. In a tweet, the celebrity accused the firm's chief Mark Zuckerberg of having valued profit over truthfulness.

6 January 2020, CityAM

In the final weeks of 2019, Twitter announced an imminent cull of inactive accounts. Desultory users risked losing their Twitter handles and having to start building their social media presence all over again.

4 January 2020, The Times

Our lives are now ruled by algorithms and apps, our smartphones are as addictive as slot machines. That’s the bad news, says industry whizzkid Tristan Harris. The good news is that Big Tech bosses are taking note. Ben Hoyle reports.

3 January 2020, Washington Post

Iran’s cyber troops long have been among the world’s most capable and aggressive, disrupting banking, hacking oil companies, even trying to take control of a dam from afar, while typically stopping short of the most crippling possible actions, say experts

19 December 2019, Financial Times

The UK government will create a technology regulator next year to police companies such as Facebook and Google after Brexit, according to several people who were involved in the process.

18 December 2019, BBC News

The four most downloaded apps of the decade are all owned by Facebook, according to app tracker App Annie.

18 December 2019, The New York Times

The first iPhone was introduced in 2007; just over a decade later, in 2018, a Pew survey found that 95 percent of teenagers had access to a smartphone, and 45 percent said they were online “almost constantly.”

14 December 2019, Al Jazeera

From Kashmir to Iran, governments are turning off the internet to stop dissent. Plus, the murky world of deepfakes.

13 December 2019, BBC News

It was an election in which tens of thousands of targeted adverts from all sorts of organisations reached voters via social media.

13 December 2019, Express and Star

It is perhaps the most surprising development of all during the election campaign that so-called ‘junk news’ is apparently on the decline.

13 December 2019, The Telegraph

Pouya Bakhtiari could barely contain his excitement as he sat in gridlocked traffic on the motorway between Tehran and his home city of Karaj.

12 December 2019, Financial Times

Sandra Wachter says AI uses sensitive personal traits to target or exclude people in ads

10 December 2019, Financial Times

Authorities are ill-equipped to deal with interference under current rules, warn experts.