Oxford Internet Institute

23 April 2018, Hindustan Times

Internet activity lives on long after a person dies and firms such as Facebook and experimental start-ups have sought to monetise this content by allowing people to socialise with the dead online.

19 April 2018, BBC News

"The major pitfalls include increasingly recognising that children have rights of consent. Who owns a child's identity?

18 April 2018, Futurism

No one is quite sure how to navigate the little-charted territory of the digital afterlife.

18 April 2018, New Scientist

A huge swathe of web pages blocked by four countries has been discovered.

18 April 2018, The Telegraph

Our internet activity will live on long after we die, yet these intimate digital details are granted little protection from companies hoping to cash in on the cyber afterlife.

18 April 2018, The Verge

Khamenei made the announcement on his Telegram channel

18 April 2018, Wired

Everything you ever wanted to know about screen time, likes, and pull-to-refresh.

18 April 2018, Technology Networks

From live-streaming funerals to online memorial pages and even chat-bots that use people’s social media footprints’ to act as online ghosts, the digital afterlife industry (DAI) has become big business.

13 April 2018, BBC News

A researcher who created a fake video of President Obama has defended his invention at the latest TED talks.

13 April 2018, The Guardian: Chips with Everything podcast

To discuss the implications of an algorithm-free YouTube platform, Jordan Erica Webber is joined by Dr Vicki Nash, of the Oxford Internet Institute.

12 April 2018, New Statesman

They effectively turned a social utility into little more than a marketing and media company with a messaging service, while framing it as a community.

10 April 2018, Wired

Once mocked, Europe’s new data protection has become a source of transatlantic envy

6 April 2018, Daily News

Embattled Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says that his platform will now have two faces, one for Europeans whose data is legally protected and one for Americans whose data is not.

5 April 2018, Wired

People spreading fake news in Malaysia could be sentenced to six years in jail under a new law. India, the UK, and France are among other countries planning laws for misinformation.

2 April 2018, Financial Times

A ‘data tax’ on Google, Facebook and Amazon would stimulate real competition

25 March 2018, BBC Radio 4

Do we need to "do something" about the effects of smartphones on teenage children? The backlash against the omnipresent devices has begun.

24 March 2018, The Hindu

The scandal over the way Cambridge Analytica obtained personal information to try to manipulate U.S. voters “is the most important moment that Facebook has faced since it went public (in 2012)”, according to Professor Andrew Przybylski.

24 March 2018, Phys.org

The scandal over the way Cambridge Analytica obtained personal information to try to manipulate US voters "is the most important moment that Facebook has faced since it went public (in 2012)," according to Professor Andrew Przybylski.

22 March 2018, Globe and Mail

Samantha Bradshaw is a senior fellow at the Canadian International Council. She is also a D.Phil. candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a researcher on the Computational Propaganda Project at Oxford University.

22 March 2018, WikiTribune

WikiTribune spoke to experts to better understand how Cambridge Analytica may have used the personal data of tens of millions of private citizens and to discuss the ethics of “Big Data”.