This report from software developer, Brave, reveals that people seeking help for addiction, disability, and poverty on council websites are profiled by private companies in the United Kingdom. None of the data collecting companies recorded in this study had received consent from the website visitor to lawfully process data.

Google and Facebook help connect the world and provide crucial services to billions. However, this report argues that their surveillance-based business model is inherently incompatible with the right to privacy and poses a threat to a range of other rights, including freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of thought, and the right to equality and...

This report is based on a review of evidence and interviews with decision-makers and charity employees responsible for fundraising carried out in July 2019. It argues that despite probable good intentions behind major platforms moving into the fundraising space, care should be taken by platforms, government and regulators to ensure those intentions do not lead...

This report focuses on the Australian context against the global backdrop of growing concerns over geoprivacy and the rapid and continuing growth of location intelligence and location marketing industries fed by locative apps and services.

This literature review looks at how scholars have theorised the influence of digital technology on democracy. The report summarises scholarly texts on a few key topics including: political communication theory in a digital age, surveillance and privacy, algorithms and bias, the attention economy and historical thought concerning information environments.