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Layla looks at her calendar on her phone. She’s in charge of planning her book club’s monthly meeting. After thinking for a ...
The Free to Protest Guide (Türkiye) has been created by adapting Privacy International's (PI) Free to Protest Guide UK according to the laws and policies of Türkiye ...
If you’ve ever used TikTok, Instagram, or X/Twitter, you will already be familiar with centralised social media. Centralised social media means big company owns the app, controls the software, and ...
Before our analysis, we note the technical limitations (and the scope of our research) meant we did not test certain features mentioned, such as Google Fit integrations offered by some apps. We also ...
Wocute is a Singapore-based period tracking app with over 5 million global downloads. To get started on the app, a user first needs to complete a short onboarding questionnaire about their goal for ...
Period Tracker by GP Apps is another popularly downloaded app we previously looked at in 2019. In our original research, we determined that this app did not appear to share any user input data with ...
We looked at the top period tracking apps downloaded in the Google Play Store, some of which we had examined in our original research, and some of which are newly emerging apps that have since grown ...
Recent activity demonstrates the need to protect people against the worst excesses of Big Tech dominance over how we interact and relate online. The fight over our data and our autonomy online ...
Educational spaces are increasingly being subjected to intrusive monitoring, and the education technologies (EdTech) being deployed is being used as a form of surveillance that undermines students’ ...
In this piece, we unpack the responses received from UK Members of Parliament between November 2023 and June 2024 following the initial launch of our campaign “The ...
Expanding beyond GPS ankle tags, the Home Office has since Autumn 2022 been issuing so-called non-fitted devices (NFDs) to migrants who are on immigration bail and who are subject to electronic ...