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This Valentine’s Day will see a heart-warming outpouring of love online from men everywhere, directed towards their female partners. But misogyny will also be very much in evidence tod… Read More
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2023-02-07 07:15
Artificial intelligence (AI) sensation Chat-GPT just became the fastest growing consumer internet app in history with 100 million users in just under two months. AI now joins the metaverse a… Read More
2023-01-31 07:19
The race to develop and monetise artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating at a furious pace with ChatGPT and generative art models DALL-E and MidJourney, bringing the currently dazzling… Read More
2023-01-23 07:15
Feelings run high on the subject of the UK’s draft Online Safety Bill – the proposed new law which aims to increase online safety and protect children and vulnerable individuals… Read More
2023-01-17 07:05
Mental health disorders affect people of all ages, genders, and backgrounds. With a huge demand for mental health resources and a dearth of trained professionals both sides of the Atlantic… Read More
2023-01-10 07:30
Living with artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an increasingly common part of life for teens and young people. From virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa, to self-driving cars and rob… Read More
2022-12-28 10:00
As we enter a new year, it’s a great time to reflect on our relationship with technology and make some changes to enhance our digital wellbeing. Here are eleven new year resolutions I… Read More
2022-12-13 08:15
Crypto’s rollercoaster year, proliferating generative AI, spats in the Twitterverse, it certainly hasn’t been a quiet twelve months in tech. Next year is stacking up to be even b… Read More
2022-12-07 09:04
In 2022 I wrote about artificial intelligence, tech ethics, the metaverse and the challenges of parenting in the digital age. I’ve done a trawl to see which of my articles were the mos… Read More
2022-12-07 09:04
In 2022 I wrote about artificial intelligence, tech ethics, the metaverse and the challenges of parenting in the digital age. I’ve done a trawl to see which of my articles were the mos… Read More
2022-11-21 10:06
Dark patterns are tricks and techniques used in so-called deceptive design where website designers make you do things you didn’t intend to do on their site. This can include; taking ou… Read More
2022-11-07 07:50
The press exploded last month with news of the smashing of another frontier in artificial intelligence (AI); ‘art’ created solely by computer algorithm, aka AI-generated art. Tex… Read More
2022-11-07 07:50
The press exploded last month with news of the smashing of another frontier in artificial intelligence (AI); ‘art’ created solely by computer algorithm, aka AI-generated art. Tex… Read More
2022-11-01 07:48
The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) comes into force today (1st November), aiming to break open the walled gardens of Big Tech. And, just like the EU’s digital privacy law, G… Read More
2022-10-17 11:04
The UK’s annual Digital Youth Index launched this week and painted a revealing, at times worrying, picture of the online experiences of young internet users in the UK. One standout was… Read More
2022-10-07 09:46
Public awareness of deepfakes has been rising steeply in the past year thanks to a few highly-publicised examples such as the Tom Cruise deepfake which went viral on TikTok, or the Obama pub… Read More
2022-08-29 07:00
Children’s exposure to the world of the metaverse is not some futuristic possibility, it is happening now. According to a 2021 report Media Use by Tweens and Teens, 17% of childre… Read More
2022-08-23 07:43
In the UK we are right in the middle of the two week period where 16 and 18 year olds get the results of the public exams that will determine so much of their future prospects. For the past… Read More
2022-08-08 09:32
The recent tragic case of Archie Battersbee in the UK who suffered irreversible brain damage after, his parents believe, taking part in one of TikTok’s deadly challenges has highlighte… Read More
2022-08-02 08:25
We’ve all become used to a few key data points about ourselves determining our credit worthiness; our job, our salary, where we live. But lack of algorithmic transparency in the artifi… Read More
2022-07-25 07:10
More teens than ever are shunning traditional news outlets like the BBC in favour of getting their news from social media platform like TikTok and Instagram, according to new research from O… Read More
2022-07-19 06:58
Technology is radically changing accepted standards for beauty thanks to filters, retouching and apps which make available the kind of image distortion tools formerly reserved only for art e… Read More
2022-07-11 07:40
Hate speech, online harassment and trolling are a big problem for users of social media. 30-40% of people in the UK have witnessed online abuse, and 10-20% of people have been personally tar… Read More
2022-07-04 07:56
TikTok has been recently redoubling its efforts on rebutting concerns that it is a national security risk. Critics of the app have consistently voiced their skepticism that the Chinese gover… Read More
2022-06-27 11:00
The overturning of the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade by the US Supreme Court last Friday comes with a host of digital privacy concerns for US women seeking healthcare.
US women may not be a… Read More
2022-06-20 08:24
The hype around cryptocurrency (crypto) and NFTs (non-fungible tokens) reached fever pitch last year, stoked by crypto influencers and celebrity enthusiasts alike. Elon Musk is a vocal… Read More
2022-06-13 07:00
My latest book ‘My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open‘ has now launched in a Greek language edition, following on the heels of the Thai edition earlier on this year.
My Brain Has To… Read More
2022-06-13 06:18
TikTok sensation The Folding Lady (aka Sophie Liard) joins us for the last episode in Series Seven to talk about her meteoric rise to internet stardom in lockdown with folding tips and t… Read More
2022-06-06 11:12
A glossary of acronyms and emojis used by child predators has been produced as a useful online safety tool to help educate parents and carers about the tactics of child sexual predators… Read More
2022-06-06 06:30
Cybersecurity veteran Jack Rhysider, host of the Darknet Diaries podcast, is telling us everything we need to know to keep ourselves safe online. From the threat from SIM swapping attack… Read More
2022-05-30 06:00
In the rush to procure education technology (EdTech) products for online learning in the pandemic, governments did not check that they were safe for children to use, a Human Rights Watch rep… Read More
2022-05-30 05:00
Mother and daughter Michelle and Joan MacDonald are using tech to inspire, motivate and to change lives – and they’re focused on a part of the population that has been rather… Read More
2022-05-23 06:53
If you’re one of the one billion people who spends an average of 50 minutes a day on TikTok every month, you might have wondered why it’s so hard to put down. It’s not beca… Read More
2022-05-23 06:34
Silkie Carlo, director of British civil liberties NGO Big Brother Watch joins to chat about the huge rise of facial recognition tech and what it means for our privacy and human rights. F… Read More
2022-05-16 06:30
Imagine being on a Zoom call and the person the other end is getting real-time messages from an artificial intelligence (AI) that’s analysing your face and indicating when you’re… Read More
2022-05-16 05:23
Tim Spector, Professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College in London and co-founder of the Zoe Covid Symptom Study app – the world’s largest COVID-19 s… Read More
2022-05-09 06:32
Humans can distinguish a computer-generated image of a human face from the real thing less than half of the time. Worse than flipping a coin.
That’s the finding from a study&nb&hell…Read More
2022-05-09 05:46
Join Queen of Boundaries, broadcaster, author and life coach Michelle Elman, as she helps us all set better boundaries online. From dealing with ghosting, managing the 24:7 email culture… Read More
2022-05-02 06:00
Last week Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach posted on Instagram about his phone addiction to his 4 million followers, in a post that garnered over 2,000 comments from those saying they felt exac… Read More
2022-05-02 05:23
Journalist Max Benwell found himself caught up in a catfisher’s games in rather an unusual way. He chats to Tanya about how he tracked the catfisher down, what he learned about cat… Read More
2022-04-25 05:43
Rory Cellan-Jones, ex-BBC Technology Correspondent, launches Series Seven of ‘It’s Complicated’ talking about his book ‘Always On: Hope and Fear in the Social Sma… Read More
2022-04-25 05:31
My tech ethics podcast It’s Complicated returns for its seventh series today (after a bit of a break while I wrote and launched a new book), with inspiring guests to help you untangle… Read More
2022-04-19 06:00
The Second Reading of the UK Online Safety Bill is taking place in Parliament today.
MPs are debating the Bill which requires companies who host content produced by users, or allow users… Read More
2022-04-11 06:10
This week Twitter announced it is working on an ‘edit’ button to enable users to correct typos, re-tag users or further hone their witticisms after they have posted a tweet &ndas&hell…Read More
2022-04-04 06:05
It turns out none of us are very good at spotting misinformation, even though we like to think we are. Research from Ofcom found that 70% of the adults are confident they can spot misinforma… Read More
2022-03-30 09:46
A new paper from Oxford University has found that negative links between social media and mental health may impact the wellbeing of girls and boys at different ages, introducing the idea of… Read More
2022-03-28 06:20
My latest digital wellbeing book ‘My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open‘ has launched in Asia, with the Thai edition out now and the Vietnamese edition following soon in 2022.
My B… Read More
2022-03-21 07:05
Our enthusiastic adoption of Big Tech’s social media platforms created a trove of unique personal data which has been used to market to and manipulate us. But, increasingly a new type… Read More
2022-03-14 07:20
The pandemic has changed a lot about our working habits. The global working from home (#wfh) movement shifted our desks from the office to the kitchen, work-life balance came into sharp focu… Read More
2022-03-07 07:15
The disinformation war between Russia and the West accelerated this week when Russia blocked access to Facebook and Twitter to all its citizens, in response to Facebook and Instagram removin… Read More
2022-02-28 07:15
As Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine on February 24th it appeared to be the beginning of the conflict. But a war waged by cyber weapons has been raging between the two countries for some tim… Read More
2022-02-21 07:00
A new study has found that robots (rather, AI) are even better at composing those strangely seductive emails promising a no-strings-attached transfer from a Nigerian bank account than humans… Read More
2022-02-14 07:00
A new study has revealed which countries have the heaviest rates of smartphone addiction in the world and found that China ranks the highest, followed by Saudi Arabia and Malaysia, with neit… Read More
2022-02-07 07:00
Safer Internet Day 2022, celebrated this year on 8th February, is a global day to promote the safe use of the digital world for children and young people. Safer Internet Day is celebrated in… Read More
2022-01-31 07:00
I’ve written a lot about the big data problems that beset the digital environment; about the lack of transparency in the way our data is collected and how it is used (and how Big Tech… Read More
2022-01-24 07:00
The UK’s senior scientific academy, The Royal Society, set the cat amongst the media pigeons this week with the release of their report on online misinformation, in which they say the… Read More
2022-01-17 07:00
When I ask the audiences in my corporate talks to identify likely suspects for sharing misinformation, there are always the same suggestions: conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, that di… Read More
2022-01-10 07:00
Just before Christmas I found myself glued to this year’s BBC Reith Lectures on living with artificial intelligence, delivered by Stuart Russell. I’ve worked with AI for all of m… Read More
2022-01-03 06:00
In 2021 we didn’t just endure the second year of the pandemic. We also experienced a boom in cybercrime, revelations about social media and mental health, proliferating misinformation… Read More
2021-12-27 00:42
In 2021 I wrote about the attention economy, persuasive tech, AI, online safety and all the most important news stories in the digital world. As an unashamed geek, I spend hours knee-deep in… Read More
2021-12-20 07:00
The report on the UK’s draft Online Safety Bill was published on 14th December and contains four key recommendations to further strengthen this long-awaited piece of legislation. The O… Read More
2021-12-13 07:00
If you’ve applied for a job recently you’ve almost certainly encountered some kind of online screening test or tool which means your application was reviewed by piece of softwar… Read More
2021-12-06 10:41
Parenting hasn’t got any easier over the last eighteen months. And where smartphones and the digital world are concerned, it’s been a real challenge. I’ve been delivering a… Read More
2021-12-01 08:00
It’s been a busy, disruptive, year in tech – due in part to a global pandemic which left us all staring at our screens with little else to do. In 2022 the innovations will keep c… Read More
2021-11-22 11:11
The news on social media has been unremittingly bad all year. From the bombshell Facebook leaks to outrage over WhatsApp’s data and privacy policy, it’s clear that our continued… Read More
2021-11-15 06:00
In Japan, roughly half a million people live as modern hermits, hikikomori, who withdraw into their bedrooms for months or years at a time, not leaving their homes for any social contact and… Read More
2021-11-08 06:00
If you’ve ever wondered what impact your use of the digital world has on the environment, I can share one nugget: every one of Facebook’s 2.85 million users produces 12 grams of… Read More
2021-11-01 11:46
If you hadn’t heard of the Metaverse before last week, Mark Zuckberg is going to make sure you’re about to hear a lot more about it.
What is the ‘metaverse’?
It… Read More
2021-10-26 10:15
It’s a big week for Big Tech both sides of the Atlantic. While whistleblower Frances Haugen gives evidence in UK Parliament to the Joint Committee on the draft Online Safety Bill, stor… Read More
2021-10-19 21:08
Facebook has plastered itself all over the news this year – and not for any good reasons. Whistleblower Frances Haugen has accused Facebook of putting profits before safety and her lea… Read More
2021-10-11 10:04
A Facebook whistleblower, whose revelations were published in the Wall Street Journal in September, has revealed her identity. Frances Haugen is a 37-year-old data expert from Iowa, has a de… Read More
2021-10-05 05:00
COVID-19 disrupted every aspect of our lives – yet, with much back to normal, it’s the university students who seem to be paying the price. With online classes replacing on campu… Read More
2021-09-30 09:04
The relentless barrage of media stories criticising Facebook; from those exposing their internal research on the mental health harm associated with Instagram, to analysis of the misinformati… Read More
2021-09-25 12:53
The UK’s ‘Children’s Code’ is, globally, the first statutory code of practice for the data protection of young people online. The Age Appropriate Design Code, as it&r&hell…Read More
2021-09-21 08:00
My third book ‘My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open‘ launches today in the UK, with a launch in North America following on 9th November and further international editions coming in 20… Read More
2021-09-20 08:09
A leak of internal documents from parent company company Facebook, exposed by the Wall Street Journal, has revealed that the company has known for some years that Instagram is taking a serio… Read More
2021-09-06 13:01
More than half of all women have experienced sexual harassment from a stranger online, according to a study by Toronto University. The study details harassment encompassing threats of sexual… Read More
2021-08-24 07:40
As technology advances, so do our habits – and reading is no different. With devices like the Kindle, and apps such as Apple Books, more and more of us are reading from our screens. Un… Read More
2021-08-16 23:17
The Facebook Oversight Board, a group of twenty lawyers, journalists, politicians and human rights experts, has faced non-stop criticism ever since its formation. The launch in October 2… Read More
2021-08-09 09:00
Coinciding as it does with heightened time indoors due to a global pandemic, the findings of Ofcom’s annual report on screen time habits Online Nation hold few surprises. But one… Read More
2021-06-07 08:56
In a bid to address the rising tide of complaints over social media and mental health pressures, Instagram have announced they are offering users the option of hiding ‘likes’ on… Read More
2021-05-19 10:32
It’s easy to dismiss misinformation as something created and disseminated just by so-called cyber troops working for foreign powers, or dedicated conspiracy theorists. But, much of the… Read More
2021-04-30 15:55
The Premier League, Sky Sports and the English Football League are joining a host of other sports bodies in a complete 81-hour boycott of social media, to protest about the failure of platfo… Read More
2021-04-22 13:21
Conversations about the impacts of our relationship with technology have so far missed out one very important group – Big Tech’s own employees. A growing movement of workers at t… Read More
2021-04-12 08:00
Vex King returns as It’s Complicated’s first ever returning guest; to talk about how healing ourselves from pain and trauma – developing better self-awareness as a resu… Read More
2021-04-05 09:34
Lawyer and activist Cori Crider, Co-Founder of non-profit Foxglove, is holding Big Tech to account: for their treatment of their own workers – social media and the digital world&rs… Read More
2021-03-29 08:00
Journalist Marisa Bate gave up Instagram five years ago after she started to question what she was getting out of it. The experience has been entirely positive, even though she works in… Read More
2021-03-22 08:00
Founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, US billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, talks about his early days founding the website that has become part of the cultural fabric of the i… Read More
2021-03-19 08:39
Writing on paper helps our brains remember information better than on tablet or smartphone new research from Japan has found. The study adds to a wealth of previous research which has found… Read More
2021-03-15 08:00
In a podcast episode focusing on faith, both on and off screens, the vicar of St Pater’s Notting Hill in London chats with Tanya about how his cycling services brought a hymn and a… Read More
2021-03-08 08:00
In a special podcast episode for International Women’s Day, British activist and campaigner Amika joins Tanya to chat about harnessing the power of social media for good to allevia… Read More
2021-03-05 09:06
Google this week announced plans to stop selling targeted advertising based on users’ browser history, in a move it claims is a direct response to user privacy concerns. The search eng… Read More
2021-03-02 11:28
We all knew, didn’t we, that all those video calls were hard work? Research out this week from Stanford University proves what we’ve been thinking all the way through the pandemi… Read More
2021-03-01 08:00
Economist, broadcaster and author Tim joins Tanya to show us how to make the world add up by reading numbers more clearly, learning how to calm down, check our biases, and identify those… Read More
2021-02-26 09:00
Another tragic death this week in a gender reveal stunt-gone-wrong, highlights the growing number of people who are literally dying for likes on social media.
Christopher Pekny, 28-year-o… Read More
2021-02-23 12:39
Finland was recently ranked Europe’s most resistant information to ‘fake news’. What can we learn from how the country approaches the problem, in teaching our own children… Read More
2021-02-19 10:30
Facebook is facing a global backlash after it abruptly removed its news sharing facility from Australian users this week, preempting being forced to comply with a new regulatory code from th… Read More
2021-02-16 19:45
The digital detox podcast which I host, launched by Time To Log Off, returns for its sixth series with a brilliant line-up of guests discussing every aspect of our relationship with technolo… Read More
2021-02-12 18:06
Mark Zuckerberg is very unhappy. Turning his focus away for a moment from complaining bitterly about how Facebook has been treated in the Netflix hit documentary The Social Dilemma, he&rsquo&hell…Read More
2021-02-09 09:00
A new report out today, for Safer Internet Day, finds that 48% of 8-17 years olds see untrue or misleading content at least once a day online, with more than one in ten young people saying t… Read More
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