Category: Information Technology
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Facial recognition: ten reasons you should be worried about the technology
Facial recognition technology is spreading fast. Dr Birgit Schippers discusses the impact it could have on a political culture based on rights and democracy.
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When your face is your boarding pass you are holidaying with Big Brother
Facial-recognition technology may be presented as a convenient way to move through airport security, but Dr Birgit Schippers argues that it poses a serious threat to our human rights and civil liberties.
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Too Young to Protect their Privacy? Seven Reasons why Children Need a Right of Privacy
In an ever-increasing digital world, Aine Maxwell looks at the importance of a child’s right to privacy when it comes to their online activity.
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Why Artificial Intelligence Needs Democratic Governance
AI poses serious threats to democratic politics and institutions, as well as our capacity and right to engage freely in democratic practices says Dr Birgit Schippers.
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Forget the ‘cloud’, soon we’ll be on the ‘edge’ when it comes to smart tech
Dr Blesson Varghese looks at the role of “edge computing” in helping to reduce delays in processing data normally handled by the cloud.
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Big Data Meets the Attention Economy
In a specially extended article, Dr Peter Doran references the recent Cambridge Analytica fallout and looks at how the battle for our attention is fast becoming the defining problem of our time.
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How identity data is turning toxic for big companies
Dr Robert McCausland and Dr Bhargav Mitra look at the growing costs for companies of holding onto personal data.
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The impact of de-peering on internet provision
Dr Subhadip Chakrabarti looks at the networking agreements that connect internet networks and highlights the impact of de-peering on these agreements.