Professor Mattias Desmet is a professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium and a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He also has a Master’s degree in Statistics. He is the author of “The Psychology of Totalitarianism”. He articulated the theory of mass formation as it applies to the Covid-19 pandemic. He is the […]
On the heels of its censorship spree in the UK – that received backlash so great it got the attention of lawmakers – PayPal is rolling […]
Australia’s Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has warned politicians to “watch out”, after […]
Researchers at the University of Washington and Harvard Law School recently published a groundbreaking study analyzing the technical capabilities of 16 electronic monitoring (EM) smartphone apps used as “alternatives” to criminal and civil detention. The study, billed as the “first systematic analysis of the […]
The EU continues to crack down on big tech companies with its full arsenal of antitrust rules. This month, Google lost its appeal against a record fine, now slightly trimmed to €4.13 billion, for abusing its dominant position through the tactics it used to keep […]
Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are high-speed, computer-controlled camera systems that are typically mounted on street poles, streetlights, highway overpasses, mobile trailers, or attached to police squad cars. ALPRs automatically capture all license plate numbers that come into view, along with the location, date, and time. The data, which includes photographs of the […]
“We partnered with Google. For example, if you google climate change, at the top of your search you will get all kinds of UN resources. We started this partnership when we were shocked to see when we googled climate change, we were […]
Meta’s President for Global Affairs said that if the company removes a lot of content from its platforms, it risks becoming “the greatest industrial-scale censor ever in human history.”
Clegg, a former deputy prime minister of […]
“A seven-month investigation […]
