Optus Hack just tip of the iceberg. FinTechs harvest bank details and passwords, can sell them too
FinTech companies collect your bank details and your password. They can access your bank accounts, keep your data, ...
Manal al-Sharif
Manal al-Sharif is an author, speaker, human rights activitist and a regular contributor to international media. She has written for the Time, the NY Times and Washington Post. Her Amazon bestseller memoir, Daring to Drive: a Saudi Woman's Awakening, is an intimate story of her life growing up in one of the most masculine societies in the world.
Manal is a cybersecurity expert and host of the tech4evil.com podcast that discusses the intersection of technology and human rights.
Telling us what we want to hear – Big Tech’s privacy lies
Every time an advertiser pays Big Tech for an ad in your social media feed, your data is the selling point. The ...
Who controls your data online? Hint: it’s not you!
Big tech wants us to think we control our own data, but we don't. Our relationship with technology begins with ...
Australia’s creeping surveillance state: Big Brother is on the march
If you still don’t care about your privacy, you should care about the collective harm that such practices inflict ...
Bouncer, get your virtual hands off me
On a night out, Manal al-Sharif was made to feel like a criminal by facial recognition. She walked away, wary of ...
When governments defy the people: the authoritarian blueprint for oppression
Inspired by the Arab Spring, Manal al-Sharif used social media to start and lead movements. In the second of two ...
Social media: time to turn around the weapons
For all the benefits wrought by the information revolution, social media has become a tool of dictators. Its ...
Planned obsolescence – how Big Tech manipulates consumers to spend again and again
"Your smartphone has a built-in frailty that will force it to fail in approximately 2-3 years." Manal al-Sharif ...
Manal Al-Sharif: Australia’s new surveillance laws remind me of home
"I left Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s most oppressive regimes. But the Australian Government’s recent draconian ...
Captive Mood: how Big Tech manipulates your emotions to serve advertisers
The digital advertising platforms don’t just want our data. They also want us to spend our lives online, an ...
Digital Slaves: how Big Tech tracks us for profit
Use of AI is increasing the power of Big Tech players like Google and Facebook and their control over our lives. ...
State of Surveillance: if Pegasus can hack Jeff Bezos’ phone, is there anywhere to hide?
Israeli firm NSO Group has created spyware which can hack a smartphone, beat encryption and access every bit of ...
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