Grooming is social, not technological. And because it is decidedly low-tech, anybody looking for a high-tech fix for it is going in the wrong direction. No algorithm, no matter how good, is going to ...

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So much for the party of change. Keir Starmer used his first Labour Party Conference in power last month to make clear that ...

Tech and the internet continue to facilitate harm in my life.

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The Civil Service is already overstaffed and hiring people to monitor and record all gifts and favours given to senior ...

Exploitation and abuse long predate the internet, as do bullying, harassment and doxxing. But the internet and, increasingly, ...

As I walk through the streets of Rafah today, all I see is fear. The fear of life and the fear of death. We are living in ...

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A Labour peer embroiled in the party’s ongoing donations row did not declare that he is a director at a company based in a tax haven. An investigation by openDemocracy found that Waheed Alli ...