Knowledge is power. The knowledge that online platforms have about you – the user – can be monetised by allowing third-parties to target advertisements, influence opinions and even swing democratic elections. As technology companies become bigger and smarter, the scales tip further in their favour and users become more vulnerable…

In recent years, as we have all entrusted more and more of our digitised data to the cloud, conversations about data privacy have become more prominent. People are now more aware of their data privacy rights and their digital footprints than ever before, and a certain distrust of tech organisations…

Deepfake — a portmanteau of “deep learning” and “fake” — refers to synthesized media (commonly video) that is ostensibly authentic, but that has been created by a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). In the age of disinformation and “fake news”, deepfakes pose a threat to online discourse — particularly political discourse…

The advent of computer vision and facial recognition technology can be largely credited to the advances in machine learning, more broadly — artificial intelligence (AI), and its associated technologies. Training datasets that feed machine learning algorithms have gotten larger, processing power has improved and become cheaper via cloud computing, social…