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Character with VR goggles

What is the metaverse – and will it help us or harm us?

27 Jul 2023

An interconnected world of extended reality is coming that will reshape how we work, play and communicate – and expose us to new levels of risk. What...

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UK police fail to meet 'legal and ethical standards' in use of facial recognition

27 Oct 2022

Researchers devise an audit tool to test whether police use of facial recognition poses a threat to fundamental human rights, and analyse three...

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‘Digital mask’ could protect patients’ privacy in medical records

15 Sep 2022

Scientists have created a ‘digital mask’ that will allow facial images to be stored in medical records while preventing potentially sensitive...

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Smart speaker

The Internet of Stings: research will probe privacy and legal concerns of smart devices

22 Oct 2021

What happens to all the sensitive personal information our smart devices collect from us? Where does the data picked up by our smart watches...

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In tech we trust?

23 Feb 2018

Fairness, trust and transparency are qualities we usually associate with organisations or individuals. Today, these attributes might also apply to...

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Protecting our data and identity: how should the law respond?

28 Oct 2016

Many of us see our privacy as a basic right. But in the digital world of app-addiction, geolocation tracking and social oversharing, some may have...

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World travel and communications recorded on Twitter

Talkin' 'bout a revolution: how to make the digital world work for us

03 Oct 2016

The digital revolution is one of the great social transformations of our time. How can we make the most of it, and also minimise and manage its risks...

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English actor John Liston as the title character in John Poole's 1825 farce, "Paul Pry"

Opinion: How a comic character sparked our very modern privacy fears – 200 years ago

25 Feb 2016

David Vincent (CRASSH) discusses the nineteenth century theatrical sensation that inspired public debate about privacy.

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Eye

I always feel like somebody’s watching me…

25 Jun 2015

What power can individuals have over their data when their every move online is being tracked? Researchers at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory are...

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Opinion: How much is riding on having ‘nothing to hide’?

18 Mar 2015

We live in an age of near-total surveillance. In a talk given earlier this week, Professor Jon Crowcroft argued that total surveillance of society is...

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Privacy

How can we protect our information in the era of cloud computing?

26 Jan 2015

Private information would be much more secure if individuals moved away from cloud-based storage towards peer-to-peer systems, where data is stored...

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Will one be forgotten? Internet Freedom and Data Protection After Google Spain

19 Jun 2014

David Erdos discusses C-131/12 Google Spain, Google v Agencia Espanola de Protection de Datos (2014), the Court of Justice of the European Union’s...

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