Reviewed in short: New books by Ben Mezrich, Eve Livingston, Billie Jean King and Maggie Nelson
The Antisocial Network by Mezrich, Make Bosses Pay by Livingston, All In by Jean King and On Freedom by Nelson.
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Oscar Williams
Oscar Williams is a senior technology journalist at The New Statesman.
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Has Apple changed its mind on privacy?
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NYU’s researchers are the latest victims of Big Tech’s war on scrutiny
Facebook has blocked critical academics from its platform under the guise of protecting privacy.
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“It’s the poorest in society who are being surveilled”: the rise of citizen-scoring algorithms
A new report reveals that millions of people across the UK are being profiled by welfare-focused algorithms without their knowledge.
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Helle Thorning-Schmidt: “Social media has benefited the global conversation”
The former Danish prime minister and co-chair of the Facebook Oversight Board on whether she can hold the social media…
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Why Lina Khan could be Big Tech’s new worst enemy
Newly appointed as chair of the FTC, the 32-year-old competition lawyer has become the face of America's “hipster antitrust”…
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Fastly internet outage: what caused gov.uk, Amazon and many other websites to go offline?
The cloud service provider Fastly suffered a technical problem that took down the websites of the UK government, the BBC and…
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How worried should we be about Priti Patel’s plans for biometric border checks?
The Home Secretary has announced plans to monitor the number of people travelling in and out of the UK.
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“They will be back”: why attacks like the Colonial Pipeline hack keep happening
Hacking gangs say they're paring back their operations following the attack, but companies and infrastructure remain vulnerable to cyber…
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