As a UK panel noted how China uses heavy surveillance and AI to monitor minorities, it is more important than ever to address the impacts of...
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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...Sex, Money and Habbo Hotel
Habbo started from an idea in 1999 by the Finnish Sampo karjalainen. Its beta version went online at the end of January 2001. At its peak...
Continue reading...My phone saved my life
In this post, I explore how digitalization is affecting home invasions and home safety. This week I listened to a podcast called Two Hot Takes that...
Continue reading...Forever by Mitch McGlocklin, a review
About a month ago, I attended the Leiden Short Film festival and went to see all the finalists for the student competition. One which really stood...
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...
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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...How the Digital brings us closer to each other, but sometimes a bit too close
The Digital brings us closer to each other, there is no doubt about that. Distances that used to be unbridgeable are now crossed in the blink...
Continue reading...You don’t look at the screen, the screen looks at you: The Internet & Social Media in China
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...Privacy and COVID in South Korea
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...
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