DUE TO THE CURRENT SITUATION, THIS SALON WILL BE ONLINE – THIS POST WILL BE UPDATED ON THE DAY WITH THE LINK TO ATTEND Hoaxes are always spreading but we are seeing a huge amount at the moment relating to Coronvirus. Also there is a…
DUE TO THE CURRENT SITUATION, THIS SALON WILL BE ONLINE – Hoaxes are always spreading but we are seeing a huge amount at the moment relating to Coronvirus. Also there is a lot of malware being spread through content around the virus. In this Salon…
The Internet as we know it has been created predominantly by people that are often described as “Brogrammers” – straight, white middle class males who tend to share similar interests and world view. But what is it like to use the Internet when you do…
RTL came to the latest Privacy Salon and filmed this report which you can see at https://www.rtl.lu/tele/de-magazin/v/3196095.html
On Safer Internet Day, February 11th, myself and Raphael Vinot were the speakers at the Representation of the European Commission in Luxembourg: Internet access is essential to study, to work and to be informed. However, 90% of Europeans are worried about the threat to democracies…
More people now meet a partner through online dating than any other way and hooking up this way has gone from a source of embarrassment to an accepted norm. Far from the AI apocalypse, it is these everyday uses of algorithms that are quietly taking…
(image by Katharina Blum https://twitter.com/btlgngsmdrtrn/status/1218113105324126209) On January 16th I gave 2 workshops at the “Youth work in digital era” conference organised by the Service National de la Jeunesse of Luxembourg. Workshop description: Browsing and evaluating information Young people are subjected to a huge flow of…
The unstoppable rise of the smartphone has given birth to a generation of DIY filmmakers & editors, AKA young people who have taken advantage of the tools in their pockets to unleash their creativity. But are they just pawns of the platforms, data-mined for surveillance…
On January 30th I will be on the panel for this event by Legal Hackers: #DataPrivacyDay2020 Communicating with our family, friends, and other relevant people of our lives in a private manner is the foundation of our democratic societies. Yet, how can communication be private,…
In November I was in Brussels with Barbara Buchegger facilitating the BIK Youth Panel participation at the Safer Internet Forum. This report is from the Better Internet For Kids site: On Wednesday, 21 and Thursday, 21 November 2019, 26 youth panellists from 20 European countries…