Apple Vs. The Home Office: How the Investigatory Powers Act Threatens Global Privacy
Underneath Apple's legal challenge to government are bigger questions about how much surveillance a democracy should tolerate
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Nuclear Family
Plus: AOC Against the Data Centres
Target Practice
Plus: Stop SpaceXas!
The people or Palantir: tech campaigners demand a new deal from Burnham
For too long, Britain has served Big Tech billionaires at the expense of ordinary people. We spoke to leading tech campaigners to set out a blueprint for Burnham.
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Iced Out
Plus: The Worst Person In the World Is Now Its First Trillionaire
The Eye 04: Data centres - a proxy flashpoint for AI resistance
In contrast to America, Britain’s data centre surge is only just starting. So is the resistance.
Pervert Glasses, Anyone?
Plus: The Summer of Ludd
The scandal behind the scandals
George Cottrell, Nigel Farage, Arron Banks and Nathan Gill all point to the same unanswered questions
Locked Into America
As Europe scrambles to reduce its dependence on American tech, the UK accelerates down the same road
Turning Up the Heat
Plus: Surely we are going to get in trouble for this
The Eye 02: When is sovereignty not sovereign?
As we start to reject reliance on US tech monopolies, Palantir and its allies rush to strip the word "sovereignty" of its meaning
Summer Reading List Time
Plus: Go Touch Grass
How the state invited sabotage to our streets
From high-society Tory garden parties to street-level arson attacks, the Kremlin is running a cold war on trust itself. It’s time for a full public inquiry.
The Eye 01: Palantir's bid to run the West
Investigative journalists Max Colbert and Charlie Young launch our new newsletter, The Eye, tracking Big Tech's capture of the state
All About Arson
Plus: AI’s Find Religion
Meme Mania
Plus: Journalism Under Attack
Palantir's capture of Britain's military
How does a foreign tech giant capture UK defence without the public noticing? You bypass competition entirely, and hire the very people writing the rules.
The Water Defenders
Plus: Cap the Crypto Crap!
More than your weekend side piece!
Plus: Unlocking a UK Digital Mystery
Has the Algorithm Already Decided Our Future?
Plus: Fake It Till You Make It
Wes Streeting, Palantir and the corporate capture of the NHS
As Health Secretary, Streeting handed our data to Palantir, deepened privatisation of our NHS and was a close ally of Peter Mandelson. Is this the blueprint for Labour’s future?
Meta is Dead!
Plus: Long Live Meta
Big Tech’s hostile takeover of democracy: Europe at a crossroads
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Data Dump
Plus: Do We Even Know What Safe Means?
Mayday! Mayday!
Plus: We’re all action.
Hyperscale
Plus: Hot on the Data Trail
Let’s All Go to the Movies
Plus: Quitting Time
AI chatbots are fuelling a new era of violence against women
From "sycophantic" chatbots to deepfake sexual abuse, the dehumanisation of women is the calculated cost of untested, unregulated AI.
The AI Slopaganda Proxy War
Plus: What Meta’s Moment Means
$375m
Plus: AI Storms the Ballot Box
Tipping the Scales
Plus: Doomscrolling