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Tag: Privacy

What’s up with WhatsApp: update sparks privacy concerns

15th February 202114th February 2021Shiv Mandal

Image description: a graffiti painting of a laughing Mark Zuckerberg, accompanied by the caption “You’ve been Zucked” When WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook in February 2014, it led to a small exodus – rival messenger app Telegram claimed to see an increase of 8 million users. Ever since, Facebook has regularly inspired fear and concern […]

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Why we need a balanced approach to Chinese technology

3rd February 201915th November 2020Vivian Leong

Recently, the University of Oxford suspended new donations and research grants from the telecoms giant Huawei. In these past tumultuous months, Huawei has been at the epicentre of a series of controversies, stemming from accusations that its technology could be used to conduct espionage. On 28th January, the US Justice Department filed 13 charges against […]

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The cost of the Information Age is too great

19th May 2017Verity Winn

Millennials today occupy a unique position of power. We straddle the social media revolution, and many of technology’s most rapid advances are within our living memory. We have witnessed the rise and fall of the mighty Bebo, hold fond nostalgia for MSN, and recall life before and after Facebook took up residence in our joint […]

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“Sneaky picture” of Emma Watson at LMH causes controversy

27th February 2016Megan Izzo

A sighting of actress Emma Watson at Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) stirred up controversy on the weekend of 19 February. Watson, who is best known for her film role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter franchise, was spotted on a tour of the Lady Margaret Hall library with the LMH Principal, Alan Rusbridger. She […]

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#Privacy: the personal, the public and the culture of oversharing

14th August 201315th November 2020Anya Metzer

  The threshold between being open and oversharing is one we spend our whole lives navigating. In nursery toilet training boasts might get you a sticker, but by Reception no one wants to hear it. Your Grandma loved hearing about your university offers, but don’t believe the Facebook likes – everyone else wishes you’d kept […]

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Looking to the future, escaping the past

9th November 201115th November 2020Rebecca Sloan

Rebecca Sloan speaks to Max Mosley, 71-year-old former Formula One boss turned media watchdog, about moving on from scandal

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