Dark patterns are design elements that deliberately obscure, mislead, coerce and/or deceive website visitors into making unintended and possibly harmful…
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You try to use your credit card, but it doesn’t work. In fact, no one’s credit card works. You try…
Five years since the Brexit vote and three since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, we’re now familiar with the role that targeted political advertising…
Since the early days of social media, there has been excitement about how data traces left behind by users can be…
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog! These words from Peter Steiner’s famous cartoon could easily be applied to the recent ransomware…
Facebook, together with an internet company called Liquid Intelligent Technologies (you might have known them as Liquid Telecoms, once upon…
Many of us vaguely remember the word “hacktivism” from a decade ago. This was a time before serious ransomware attacks dominated current…
So you’re keen to try out this new NFTs thing, but you don’t have several million dollars for one? Twitter,…
This week my cat placed himself in the proverbial dog box, after he decided to do a bit of tinkering…
When your Netflix stream drops out in the middle of a rainstorm, can you blame the wild weather? Quite possibly.…