Tech, Data and Algorithms

Matthew Gwyther reports on the continued march of the unaccountable digital monopolies and their ambition to reengineer everything – including us

Digital passes that confirm people are Coronavirus-free could be adopted as a tool to get societies back to normal – by governments and beyond, says Steve Shaw

The biggest danger of the social media giant’s stranglehold on social media is not to its competitors but to those living under authoritarian leaders, reports Steve Shaw

Zarina Zabrisky urges the President-elect and his team to counter one of the gravest threats to modern democracy

MPs warn that billions of pounds could be wasted by the opaque tech-focused arm of NHS, reports David Hencke

Nigel Farage has been promoting his £10,000 bet on the US Presidential Election, but are his posts within the rules?

Palantir, a tech giant that holds US Government contracts worth more than $1.5 billion, is extending its tentacles across the Atlantic, reports Stephen Delahunty

Byline Times’ Secret Scientist finds that science is being abused as much in the second wave of COVID-19 as it was in the first

Dr Emma Briant reports on the contract between the famous media company and the now-defunct data operation set up by Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer

Former MP and member of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee Ian Lucas explains fresh revelations about the now defunct data firm’s links to AIQ – which was paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to deploy Facebook adverts for the Vote Leave group during the 2016 Referendum

Former MP Ian Lucas scrutinises a recent letter from the Information Commissioner addressing the links between Cambridge Analytica and the pro-Brexit campaigns

A new report lays bare details of the Government’s Coronavirus work conducted by Dominic Cummings’ favourite tech companies

CJ Werleman looks at the proliferation of genocide denial, from the Shoah to Bosnia, and how this enables continued killing and repression in Syria and China

Questions have been raised about whether Amazon could be required to share UK contact trace data with the US Government, reports Stephen Komarnyckyj

Kseniya Kirillova speaks to a cybersecurity specialist about how Russia obtains sensitive information from Western companies