It is 8am,on a wintry Monday. You have your coffee cup in hand as you rush towards the bus stop. It is the middle of winter, so the buses are […]
Data Privacy in a Post-Roe World
In the wake of last week’s leaked Supreme Court opinion draft about the likely overturning of Roe v. Wade, a lot of advice circulated online telling people to delete their […]
Building a Better Tech World
Information and communications technologies have offered so much to the world—including WORT community radio and this very show! But it’s important that we bring a critical lens to the way […]
The Present and Future of Surveillance
“The degree to which we are surveilled, the persistence with which we are surveilled, and the variety of ways in which we are surveilled has exploded in the last decade,” […]
Cell Phone Tracking and The Privacy Project
“Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies—largely unregulated, little scrutinized—are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the […]
Living with Big Tech
The internet is dominated by five companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. And it’s not just online—these giant tech companies are behind a lot of the smart devices collecting […]
