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.
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[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:
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[Tech Weekly] Behind the Tech City Talks
Monday October 03, 2011 @ 05:45 PM (UTC)Tech Weekly producer Scott Cawley and I have been very busy over the last few months developing the Tech Weekly Tech City Talks series, four evenings of debates on Mondays in October at Imperial College London between front benchers and the people at the coalface about the realities that lie behind the UK government’s Tech City initiative.
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[Tech Weekly] WikiLeaks, Anonymous and cyber war (14 December 2010)
Tuesday December 14, 2010 @ 06:42 AM (UTC)The Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast,
Are the attacks directed at MasterCard, Visa and others the signs of the first cyber war? And how did a Tom Cruise video help spawn online activists Anonymous? -
[Tech Weekly] Joi Ito on Creative Commons, game-ify your commute with Chromaroma (7 December 2010)
Tuesday December 07, 2010 @ 04:48 AM (UTC)The Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast
Joi Ito on Creative Commons, game-ify your commute with Chromaroma: Creative Commons chief Joi Ito on how the organisation wants to release the internet from copyright problems, and Chromaroma’s Toby Barnes on how his game turns your commute into fun
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