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Are Immunity Passports An Inevitable Solution to Continuous Coronavirus Waves?
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
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How Facebook is Aiding Authoritarian Regimes
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
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A Top Priority for Joe Biden: Stop Information Warfare
Zarina Zabrisky urges the President-elect and his team to counter one of the gravest threats to modern democracy
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‘Unproven, Expensive’ NHS Digital Plans Criticised by MPs
MPs warn that billions of pounds could be wasted by the opaque tech-focused arm of NHS, reports David Hencke
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Farage Gambles with Social Media Rules
Nigel Farage has been promoting his £10,000 bet on the US Presidential Election, but are his posts within the rules?
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Controversial Trump-Linked Data Firm Given £20 Million Government Contract to Monitor UK’s Borders
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
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Flattening the Curve of COVID Conviction
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
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Dark Ironies: The Financial Times and Cambridge Analytica
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
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New Evidence Connects Johnson, Gove and Cummings to Cambridge Analytica
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
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Brexit Spin Masters Jump on Unconvincing Cambridge Analytica Conclusions
Former MP Ian Lucas scrutinises a recent letter from the Information Commissioner addressing the links between Cambridge Analytica and the pro-Brexit campaigns
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‘A Single Source of Truth’: More Government Outsourcing Projects to Controversial Tech Firms Revealed
A new report lays bare details of the Government’s Coronavirus work conducted by Dominic Cummings’ favourite tech companies
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Genocide Denialism Flourishes in the Social Media Age
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
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Amazon Web Services Wins COVID-19 Contact Tracing Deal Despite Data Sharing Concerns
Questions have been raised about whether Amazon could be required to share UK contact trace data with the US Government, reports Stephen Komarnyckyj
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‘Digital prison’: Why It’s Unsafe for Western Companies to do Business with Russia
Kseniya Kirillova speaks to a cybersecurity specialist about how Russia obtains sensitive information from Western companies
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Russian State-linked Figures Promoted Portland ‘Cruise Rally’ and Fake News Site Inciting New American Civil War
Iggy Ostantin reveals Putin’s interference in US politics appears to be even deeper and darker in 2020
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‘They Are Naïve to Potential Abuse’: Centralisation Under Cummings
Insiders reveal a clash between Civil Service impartiality and Cabinet Office concentration of power, reports Sam Bright
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Defunding the BBC Will Lead to a Zombie Democracy
An emaciated BBC would spur partisan ‘news’ riddled with conspiracy theories, argues Sam Bright
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Gove in New Cabinet Office Trade Data Grab
David Hencke reports on how the Cabinet Office Minister is continuing with plans for the centralisation of data within his department
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The Matrix of Violence: Automated Racism in Police Surveillance
After the ‘A’ Level exams fiasco, Zeeshan Ali reveals how a reliance on technology and AI is reinforcing prejudice on the streets Recent weeks have witnessed a growing outcry against the state’s use of algorithms to predict the exam results of students across the country at the detriment of those predominantly from disadvantaged backgrounds. Teenagers…
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The Conservative-Crosby Insider Running Coronavirus Meme Firm Topham Guerin
The digital start-up given £3 million to help run Coronavirus communications has hired a member of Tory party royalty as its managing director, Sam Bright reveals
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IN GOD WE TRUST. ALL OTHERS WE MONITOR: The Mystery of Dominic Cummings’ Lanyard
Sam Bright and Greg Miskiw dig into dystopian lanyard flaunted by Boris Johnson’s chief advisor
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COVID-19 Robo-Government: What Happened When I Was Pursued by the Self-Isolation Police
Stalked by a shadowy, faceless entity, David Clark thought the Government’s attempts to contact him were a hoax
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A New Digital ‘Hostile Environment’ – And Cummings’ 10-Year Plan for Another Referendum
David Hencke reports on the Home Office’s plans to change its immigration status system and fresh insights about the ‘Whitehall Revolution’ being masterminded by the Prime Minister’s chief advisor
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Facebook Withholding Evidence of Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide
Steve Shaw reports on how the social media platform was used to fuel violence against the country’s Muslim minority in 2017
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Exams Watchdog Boss Flouted Concerns on Algorithm Bias Raised in his Own Report
The chair of Ofqual didn’t follow his own advice on how algorithms can reinforce discrimination because of “biases in underlying datasets”
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Infamous: A Bonnie and Clyde Tale in the Instagram Era
Chris Sullivan reviews Infamous, a new dramatisation of the insatiable lust for fame
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Data Danger: Cabinet Office Admits Holes in its Cyber Security
Amid its attempts to centralise Government data, Michael Gove’s department is exposed to cyber security incidents, Sam Bright reports
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Hacked Encrypted Private Messaging Leads to Biggest Organised Crime Bust in Years
Duncan Campbell reports on the haul of guns, drugs, and money by Operation Venetic, but also potential legal problems over the hacked data
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Cabinet Office Launches New Contract System for ‘AI’ Procurement – Reducing Public Transparency
David Hencke reports on the extension of a new contract system by Michael Gove’s office which avoids publication of early bids from tech companies
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Poachers to Gamekeepers? Vote Leave Data Firm Now Promoted by Government as Anti-Disinformation Expert
Faculty AI, an artificial intelligence company employed by Dominic Cummings during the Brexit campaign, is being marketed to foreign countries as an antidote to fake news
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Babylon Health and the Health Data Goldrush
John Lubbock looks beyond the hype at Dominic Cummings and Matt Hancock’s enthusiasm for health services based on artificial intelligence
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Johnson & Cummings Are Waging War on the British State
James Wallbank explores how Systems Thinking can help the public to understand the methods of the Prime Minister and his chief advisor –and why they must not be mistaken for buffoons
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Gove’s Data Control Coup Emerges from the Shadows
David Hencke explores the implications of one of the most extraordinary Government power grabs he has seen as a political reporter
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All the Data in the World: The Dangers of Trump’s Favourite Firm Going Global in a Crisis
Sam Bright tracks the global expansion of data mining company Palantir during the Coronavirus pandemic
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Boris Johnson’s Great Spaffometer
Stephen Colegrave tries to estimate how many billions the Prime Minister and his Government have wasted in their first year in power
Advertising and Marketing, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Business, Conservative Party, Coronavirus, Corruption, Dominic Cummings, Economics, Finance and Money, Economy, Health, Michael Gove, Newspapers, Populism, PR, Public Health, Social Media, The European Union, UK Politics, Whitehall and the Civil Service
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How Two Right-Wing Meme Merchants Scored a £3 Million Government Coronavirus Contract
Sam Bright tracks the rise of Topham Guerin, the New Zealand ‘propaganda pair’ in charge of the UK Government’s online Coronavirus communications
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The Mythical Nationalism of Trump and Modi Has Failed, So Now they’re Waging War on their Own Citizens
India and America are suffering parallel slides towards authoritarianism, reports CJ Werleman
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Firm with Links to Huawei Given £3 Million Foreign Office Contract
A French-owned company is in bed with both Huawei and the Foreign Office, reports Sam Bright
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Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Obliterate the Last Frontier in Privacy – Our Biological Selves?
COVID-19 is accelerating the attempts of big tech companies to harvest our data, writes Tanya O’Carroll.
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Right-Wing Propaganda Pair Paid £3 Million to Run Coronavirus Communications
Sam Bright reports on how two 20-something New Zealanders, allies of Lynton Crosby, were awarded a massive Government COVID-19 campaign contract
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Facebook is Still Being Used to Rig Democracy
Caolan Robertson draws on his first-hand experience of stirring up right-wing political outrage for likes
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The Government’s Ten Biggest Coronavirus Lies Unmasked
With mounting scandals and inconsistencies over the Government’s handling of COVID-19, Stephen Colegrave and Peter Jukes have compiled a list of its biggest falsehoods so far
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SAGEGATE – Part Three: Cummings and Johnson Defied Scientific Advisors by Lifting Restrictions Without Robust Track and Trace
The third part of Nafeez Ahmed’s investigation shows how public health was sacrificed to ideology as the lockdown was eased
