TEMU promises billionaire-style shopping with ultra-low prices and endless products. But behind the flashy ads and gamified shopping lies a darker side – worker exploitation, data privacy concerns, and environmental harm. Is the deal too good to be true? Sometimes, less is truly more.
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Smartphone Surveillance and Human Rights
I think we are all aware, that we live in an age where information is currency and every page we visit is gathering data. Rationally we...
Continue reading...What does “the web” look like ? 1/3
A little bit of context : We all know the internet as an intangible entity, a digitized world on its own. However, the internet has a...
Continue reading...Filtered Reality: How Instagram Fuels Body Image Insecurities
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Regulation of social media platform policy and monopolies
In this article, I explain why stricter and more proactive regulating of social media platforms such as the DSA and DMA are essential, and explain what aspects of this regulation are important.
Continue reading...GDPR – EU & Space Law: GDPR – An Introduction
Part 1 of a multimedia project by Lucia, Bianca, Alec and Dennis This blog will serve as the introduction to a multimedia series about Space Law...
Continue reading...Dries Depoorter: privacy piracy?
After reading an interview with Belgian concept artist Dries Depoorter, I am surprised part of his portfolio has not been presented on this website yet, so...
Continue reading...Podcast – Coded Bias: AI in Power
In this podcast, we (Mehak, Isabel, and Lara) talk about the documentary “Coded Bias,” directed by Shalini Kantayya. The documentary discusses how biased the algorithms used...
Continue reading...Should you care about your data privacy?
At this point in the information age, it feels almost impossible to keep up with protecting your privacy. Every time you enter a new website you...
Continue reading...Get steadily ready for the European Digital Identity
This week’s prompt “how do we handle information in the digital age?” reminded me of the handling of private information on the internet by public actors....
Continue reading...The Digital Euro
“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...
Continue reading...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,...
Continue reading...Different Interpretations of the same Law: The GDPR in Norway and The Netherlands
Two weeks before I was moving to the Netherlands to begin my bachelor studies in August 2019, my family and I were joking, with a serious...
Continue reading...Paradise Hills
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...
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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...The new snake oil marketplace
Today I read a news article about Dutch influencer Donny Roelvink who apologized for recommending a cosmetic medical procedure. He had had porcelain plates added to...
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...Behind the scenes: what does a twitch mod see?
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