Digital identity, meaning the conversion of human identities into digital data, is often hailed as a route to benefits from the public and private sectors. At the same time, a different reality confronts this orthodoxy: vast empirical evidence exists on t

The recent OlympicGamesand European Football Championship have highlighted once again the importance, and controversiality, of technologies associated with referee decisions. A Video Assistant Referee, or VAR, is tasked with assisting the referee concer

The ongoing war on Gaza, one of the deadliest military assaults in history, has been accompanied by extremeapplications of digital technologies to warfare. This feeds into the many layers of cybercontrol to which Palestine, a land under military and sett

The foundational elements of EU migration policies and security technologies started to take a turn in the wake of Russias annexation of Crimea in 2014, accelerating the research and use of traditional military and war technologies such as drones in civi

Health data governance should ensure protection for individuals' healthdata against violations, while enabling the smooth functioning of healthcare systems. Doing so involves a complex set of stakeholders, opening multiple questionswhichdirectly af

The narrative of digital deception pervades the discourse on generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), opening important questions on the validity and verifiability of the information we come across daily. In this landscape, generative AI is now being exte

Humanitarian aid has undergone significant transformations in recent years, driven in part by the increasing integration of technology and the growing influence of private partners. Such a development not just changes who the actors are also, the mindset

The notion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for social good is being actively pushed as a route to involve private tech vendors in the pursuit of targets ascribing to theSustainable Development Goals. With our guest Gianluca Iazzolino, we discuss the impl

At a time when machines undertake practices previously delegated to human expertise, questions of skill erosion become prominent. Our guestsEsko PenttinenandJoona Ruissaloilluminate the intersections of automation and skill erosion, which denotes a

Data reuse is crucial to making existing datasets accessible across users, systems and organisations. As we discuss today with Elena Parmiggiani, many questions surround data reuse: how can data be managed, curated and prepared to achieve cross-contextual