“Blink with two eyes, and pay the price” Imagine this: you’re driving your car to France for a holiday and you stop for gas. Remarkably, your...
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Living in the 21st century means reconceptualizing privacy
The Greek society of Aristotle was the first to know two different spheres. Aristotle made the distinction between oikos and polis. The first meant the household,...
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Paradise Hills is a film by director Alice Waddington and premiered 26 January 2019 at the Sundance Film Festival. When I watched this film back in...
Continue reading...My digital journey
Where did I come from and where will I go? It wasn’t until I went to high school that I got my first smartphone and I...
Continue reading...Have you ever heard of the “Nth room incident”? How dark it was!?!
The sexual exploitation incident happened in South Korea in 2019. It revealed the criminal groups were between the ages of 24 and 25. They used fraudulent...
Continue reading...Has live streaming gone too far?
I was today years old when I found out that there was a 24/7 livestream going on of famous pop-art artist Andy Warhol’s gravestone. Now you...
Continue reading...UNSEE US: NO MASS SURVEILLANCE ON LEIDEN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
Imagine a building you’re obligated to enter every week, where cameras are faced on every entrance and exit. These cameras are owned by a company which...
Continue reading...Does your phone listen in on you?
Did you ever have the feeling your phone is eavesdropping on you? For example when you just had a converstation about a product with someone offline...
Continue reading...fanfic appreciation post
I think everybody has heard of fanfiction, but people have many different ideas about and opinions of what it is. In Media and Social studies there...
Continue reading...Is the whole world spying on us?
Privacy is becoming a more pressing issue by the day. At the time of writing this, the whole world has its eyes on China and its...
Continue reading...Unpopular Opinion: Texting Sucks
It is a non negligible fact that text messaging is one of the best tools to improve our lives. We can reach out to whoever we...
Continue reading...Are we opening a Pandora’s box with at-home DNA tests?
This podcast aims to discuss how the information gained after inheritance tests shape our presence and the future. The guest of this podcast is my wonderful...
Continue reading...With great freedom comes great inconveniences…
In this podcast, Aleksa and I discuss how we, as a society, live in a panopticon where governments are struggling to gain knowledge on its citizens, while global...
Continue reading...Japanese Government Enacted a Law against Cyberbullying: how to put this to an end?
September 21, 2020 The virus takes lives away, and so does the cyberbullying. In the year of 2020, while the face-to-face contact is lessened, the online...
Continue reading...A Marriage from Hell
Written by: Akif Aliyev Its 9am on a March morning when I wake up and instinctively roll to my side, pick up my phone and begin...
Continue reading...Podcast: #DigitalOptimists with Stefan Buijsman (Privacy Issues Episode)
I am having a conversation with my friend Stefan Buijsman who is the youngest Ph.D. of the Netherlands and Sweden (obtained it at the age of...
Continue reading...Eye-Tracking: Identifying Criminals to Sexual Orientation
I wanted to end my blog posts with a nice overview of what I have been up to, what my focuses were in the past blogs and...
Continue reading...Writing history in the age of Big Data
Our age is truly the age of Big Data. Every day we tweet, write posts and upload photos to Facebook and Instagram and send messages through...
Continue reading...PODCAST – Dystopian Future: Face Masks, WeChat & Social Credit Score
Podcast by Froy & Leon We meant to do a casual podcast that discusses ‘dystopian like’ developments in technology. Watch in full screen if you want...
Continue reading...All Is Fair In Love & Cookies
The story of our lifetimes is how intentionally, by design, a number of institutions – both governmental and corporate – realized it was in their mutual...
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