Technology Pill

Tech companies, governments, and international agencies have all announced measures to help contain the spread of the COVID-19, otherwise known as the Coronavirus. Unprecedented levels of surveillance, data exploitation, and misinformation are being tested across the world. Many of those measures are based on extraordinary powers, only to be used temporarily in emergencies. Others use exemptions i...

This week: it's a weird one - rather than our normal look at technology, we've got recommendations for movies and games you might enjoy while you're locked down.  Music by Simon Mathewson, you can find more from him here: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Simon_Mathewson   Recommendations include: Sorry to Bother You Legally Blonde S-Club Seeing Double Snowpiercer  Broforce Ultimat...

Recorded 12th March.  We can’t believe we’re having to say this, but the hours after giving  birth are private. If you’re a parent, you may have heard of Bounty, a  sales and marketing company allowed access to hospital maternity wards and approach women who have just given birth. This doesn’t happen on any other hospital ward. Can you imagine coming round from major surgery to find...

You’re a witness or a victim or a suspect of a crime; or even just travelling going on holiday. Officials demand your phone, then disappear with it. What happened to your phone? What happened to your data? What will happen to you? We all generate vast amounts of data using our mobile phones - more than most of us are aware of - and that data has become increasingly attractive to law enforcement ag...

Find out why 53 organisations from all over the world  are telling Google it's time they take action on pre-installed apps  (bloatware). Sign the petition: pvcy.org/soundcloudpet Music by Glass Boy, find more of their work here: glassboy.bandcamp.com/album/enjoy ( creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ )