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Should we be getting a share of the money our personal data earns?
Facebook collects and sells our data – and yet we seem to care comparatively little that we don’t get a…
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Facebook collects and sells our data – and yet we seem to care comparatively little that we don’t get a…
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ByWhy should my opinions, or those of other comment journalists, be worth more than those of anyone else, especially now…
ByThe default assumption when it comes to sex workers on Facebook is that their lives are an open book.
ByWhat began as an addictive game soon became more than that – and it was the friendships, not the quests, that…
ByWe've had long enough to get used to living our lives online – how do we really feel about social media?…
ByThe social network admits manipulating its users’ emotions through the content it put in their newsfeeds. Think that’s creepy? A…
ByManufactured “outreach groups” may have misled the public over connections to Vote Leave, lobbying groups and the Tory party.
ByFrom the Romans to Twitter, the hash sign – or octothorpe – has had a rich history, and now this…
ByThe move has been acclaimed as a big step forward, but it was a deliberate and recent policy decision by…
ByDaisy Coleman is the latest in a series of girls to report that they were sexually assaulted and cyberbullied on…
ByPolice officers told Caroline Criado-Perez that they would collate the necessary information on threatening tweets sent to her. But earlier…
By"The problem is global and endemic. Nobody has clean hands."
ByInstead of throwing around words like "mansplaining", we should try to understand each other's experiences - which are as unique…
By...just like it did to Facebook.
ByWho wants to search for "single women who live nearby and who are interested in men and like Getting Drunk"?
BySay hello to a world where you can just do stuff, without talking about the stuff you're doing!
ByWhy there are grounds for optimism.
By"There’s a pressure to have an opinion on every incremental development on everything," he says.
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