Yesterday the Investigatory Powers Tribunal announced next steps in Apple’s and PI’s challenges to the purported UK order ...

We’ve been warning for a while now about the risks of AI Assistants. Are these assistants designed for us or to exploit us?

Who are the workers behind the training datasets powering the biggest LLMs on the market? In this explainer, we delve into data labeling as part of the AI supply chain, the labourers behind this data ...

Background Kenya’s National Integrated Identity Management Scheme (NIIMS) is a biometric database of the Kenyan population, that will eventually be used to give every person in the country a unique ...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the United Nations-led initiative to define the development agenda. Building on the eight Millennium Development Goals, the SDG’s 17 goals – and the 169 ...

With more and more connected devices around us, the chance that you've been hit by an update notification is high. But what do these software updates do? How do they actually work, and why are they ...

“IPIC” ("Identify and Prioritise Immigration Cases”) is an algorithm utilised by the UK Home Office that automatically identifies and recommends migrants for particular immigration decisions or ...

Our world is undergoing a seismic process of increasing digitisation, which sees the proliferation of new technologies and the growing integration of these technologies into public services, which ...

The NHS is not the only UK authority working with Palantir — the Cabinet Office, the police, the Ministry of Defence, and the Home Office have also had, or currently have, ties with the company The ...

PI, Worker Info Exchange, and App Drivers and Couriers Union have teamed up to challenge the unprecedented surveillance that gig economy workers are facing from their employers.

Over the last 20 years, vast data-intensive systems were deployed in Afghanistan by national and foreign actors. As we highlight some of these systems we present our concerns as to what will happen to ...

The UK government wants to expand their current regime governing extremely intrusive surveillance measures like technical capability or national security notices. The latter can force companies to ...