Layla looks at her calendar on her phone. She’s in charge of planning her book club’s monthly meeting. After thinking for a ...

If you’ve ever used TikTok, Instagram, or X/Twitter, you will already be familiar with centralised social media. Centralised social media means big company owns the app, controls the software, and ...

This week we're talking to Gus about his experience being targeted by the Russian government, how it felt at the time, and then how it felt when he found out the government may be trying to undermine ...

Sara Fratti is a Guatemalan lawyer specializing in technology and human rights, with 10+ years of experience in Internet governance, digital rights, international law, intellectual property, and AI ...

Vera has 25 years of experience at the intersection of digital technology, social justice and philanthropy. She is an independent philanthropic advisor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL ...

Martin Scheinin is Guest Professor of international human rights law at Lund University (Sweden) and part-time professor at the European University Institute (Italy). He has served as member of the UN ...

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 ...

What is an IMSI catcher? An IMSI catcher is an intrusive piece of technology that can be used to locate and track all mobile phones that are switched on in a certain area. An IMSI catcher does this by ...

Before our analysis, we note the technical limitations (and the scope of our research) meant we did not test certain features mentioned, such as Google Fit integrations offered by some apps. We also ...

Period Tracker by GP Apps is another popularly downloaded app we previously looked at in 2019. In our original research, we determined that this app did not appear to share any user input data with ...

Wocute is a Singapore-based period tracking app with over 5 million global downloads. To get started on the app, a user first needs to complete a short onboarding questionnaire about their goal for ...

Governments around the world are increasingly making registration in national digital ID systems mandatory for populations, justifying its need on a range of issues from facilitating access to ...