We have a responsibility to protect our privacy in the digital age. Now, I’m not excusing the role of institutions in this human rights issue, but while they navigate the rocky landscape thrown up by the digital world, we need to get real about how to live responsibly with our data.
guardian
-
Power of Privacy: Taking Control
Monday October 19, 2015 @ 10:36 PM (UTC)Tomorrow’s episode of The Guardian’s investigation of privacy in the digital age sees me trying to take back control after information is released into the wild – without prior consent or knowledge.
-
The Biggest Story In the World
Friday March 13, 2015 @ 01:00 PM (UTC)Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has only a few months left in his post, and for his swan song at the end of what has been an extraordinary time at the helm, he’s decided to tackle The Biggest Story In the World: Climate Change.
-
[Tech Weekly] The consequence of a Web that never forgets
Tuesday July 23, 2013 @ 11:12 AM (UTC)A technological solution is not the answer to our privacy woes. This is the juicy core of my argument in this essay I recorded for the 16th July 2013 edition of The Guardian’s Tech Weekly, not long after Glen Greenwald reported on the US government’s extensive cyber-surveillance.
-
[Tech Weekly] The man behind the curtain
Thursday July 04, 2013 @ 10:52 AM (UTC)In which I explore why we want to believe in magic.
Here’s the transcript from this week’s Email from Abroad for The Guardian’s Tech Weekly:
-
[Tech Weekly] A Visit to the Cyber-Addiction Clinic
Tuesday June 25, 2013 @ 12:29 PM (UTC)I was on the bus home to Venice, CA in February via Culver City and passed the Cyber Addiction Recovery Center. It was too good to be true. So I visited Chris Mullligan, its chief therapist, for The Guardian’s Tech Weekly.
-
[Tech Weekly] Dear Yahoo!: A letter from a person who wishes to remain anonymous
Wednesday June 12, 2013 @ 10:57 AM (UTC)In May 2013, Yahoo! announced that it had bought the immensely popular blogging service Tumblr for 1.1bn USD. I’m an avid Tumblr-er (and another and another) and I couldn’t resist writing a letter to the search/content/web dinosaur explaining why it was important that they let it be.
-
[Tech Weekly] CB Radio: the Facebook of the 1970s
Friday June 07, 2013 @ 06:58 AM (UTC)The Guardian’s Tech Weekly took on a different flavour when I went on the road for the first half of 2013. The physical distance meant I couldn’t host the show as usual, and so, working with producer Jason Phipps, we developed a series of “Emails from America” in the style of the BBC’s From Our Own Correspondent.
Displaying posts 1 - 8 of 8
Recent comments