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Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics.
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BOOK ACTIVITIES
“Unfolding Our Shared Future: Challenge, Possibility and Potential in the 21st Century: A travelling festival addressing issues facing the US & UK in domestic, trans-Atlantic and global contexts,” speaking series hosted by the American Politics Group of the UK (APG), with the support of a special award from the US Embassy in London, University of Glasgow, 14 November 2023
A short guide to technology ethics, Mishcon de Reya, 6 February 2023
Conversation with Dr Erica Thompson, Professor Diane Coyle and Baroness Minoush Shafik on the publication of Escape from Model Land: How mathematical models can lead us astray and what we can do about it, London School of Economics, 24 January 2023
Critical Conversations series, American Library in Paris, 2023
2-day lecture series at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 28-29 November 2022
Interview with Dr Rumman Chowdhury, former head of Machine Learning Ethics at Twitter, Rhodes Trust, 12 November 2022
The Data Lab Summit, Edinburgh, 3-4 November 2022
“Big Brother or Brave New World? Britain’s Relationship with Technology Today”, Morrab Library, Penzance, 12 October 2022
WIRED Smarter conference, London, 11 October 2022
Technology Ethics and PR, London, 29 September 2022
The Data Lab podcast, 22 July 2022
Dartington Ways With Words festival, 16 July 2022
‘Digital Ethics’, The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL)'s annual conference, 7 July 2022
Presentation to the AI All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), House of Lords, 4 July 2022
Presentation to 25 PR companies, London, 23 June 2022
Avenade School of Innovation, London, 21 June 2022
Accelerate Annual Conference, Belfast, 15 June 2022
‘IoT for Good’, Internet of Things Alliance Australia, 9 June 2022
Interview with Philosophy News, 24 May 2022
Citywire, Switzerland, ‘Technology Ethics in Action’, 18 May 2022
Panel discussion on technology ethics, BAE Systems, 12 May 2022
Keynote, ‘Debugging Inequality in Data Science”, all-day workshop with the LSE Data Science Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, 6 May 2022
Book club event with We and AI, 5 May 2022
Keynote and discussion, British Screen Forum, 4 May 2022
In conversation with the Transparency International Professional Supporters (TIPS) Network, 25 April 2022
In conversation with Sifted, 22 April 2022
Interview with Parmy Olson, Bloomberg Opinion, Twitter Spaces, 13 April 2022
Interview with Dave Savage, Harvey Nash Group podcast, 12 April 2022
In conversation with Imane Lahrache (Sky News Arabia) at the World Government Summit in Dubai, 30 March 2022
In conversation with Azeem Azhar (author of Exponential) at Daunt Books on South End Green, 22 March 2022
Interview with Marco Ciappelli for the ITSP Magazine podcast, 11 March 2022
Interview with Mark Littlewood, Business of Software conference, 9 March 2022
Interview with Paddy Stephens for the Ethics for a Changing World podcast, 7 March 2022
Interview with Justin Hendrix for the Tech Policy Press ‘The Sunday Show’ podcast, 27 February 2022
‘Discussion of Technology Is Not Neutral: A short guide to technology ethics by Stephanie Hare’, BBC World Service “Business Matters”, 23 February 2022
‘Discussion of Technology Is Not Neutral: A short guide to technology ethics by Stephanie Hare’, BBC World Service ‘Digital Planet’, 22 February 2022
‘Where (if anywhere) should facial recognition be used?’, The Naked Scientist (listen) (transcript), 13 February 2022
ARTICLES IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS
Also available via Harvard Business Review.
GUEST EDITOR
Exponential View, “Biometric Surveillance, Caring Robots, Objective Science, Near-Death Experience, and Ketamine++ #224”, 30 June 2019
OP-EDS/ANALYSIS
‘Facial recognition endangers us all without a clear legal basis,’ Computer Weekly, 28 March 2024
‘Kate Crawford: Exposing Artificial Intelligence’s True Costs’, Baillie Gifford, October 2023
“Chip War: Why Semiconductors Run the World — interview with Chris Miller, author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (FT Business Book of the Year)”, Baillie Gifford, 5 December 2022
‘Sheryl Sandberg’s Influence Reaches Us All. But It’s a Troubling Legacy”, Observer/Guardian, 5 June 2022
‘Face Up to It — This Surveillance of Kids in School is Creepy’, Observer/Guardian, 9 May 2022
‘Your Face Is Now a Weapon of War’, The National Interest, 26 April 2022
‘The Rise of AI Could Be a British Story. But Let’s Do It the Right Way,” Guardian/Observer, 13 February 2022.
‘Give pause before you raise a glass to the prospect of a vaccine passport’, Guardian/Observer, 27 March 2021
‘Rethinking Resilience’, WIRED World in 2021
“When there’s an app that can save lives, there will be no need to download it out of a sense of duty”, Guardian/Observer, 31 May 2020
“Will London Become the Next Orwellian Surveillance City? We’re About to Find Out”, The Washington Post, 29 January 2020
“It’s Time for AI Ethics to Grow Up”, WIRED World in 2020, 8 January 2020
“These new rules were supposed to protect our privacy. They don’t work”, Guardian/Observer, 10 November 2019
“Facial Recognition Is Now Rampant. The Implications for Our Freedoms Are Chilling”, Guardian/Observer, 18 August 2019
“What Is It Like When Police Go Rogue in a Liberal Democracy? Look to Britain”, The Washington Post, 14 August 2019
“Scotland should lead, not lag, on UK biometrics”, The Herald, 20 September 2018
"We must face up to the threat posed by biometrics", Financial Times, 8 August 2018
"Our Bodies or Ourselves: How the unchecked use of biometrics is changing the relationship between citizens and the state", co-authored with Anne-Marie Slaughter, Project Syndicate, 23 July 2018
WORKING PAPERS
TV SPECIAL REPORTS
“COVID digital vaccine passports, the UK is funding two pilot schemes using face verification and finger vein mapping technology”, BBC Click, 17 April 2021
RADIO SPECIAL REPORTS
“Vermeer and the Business of Blockbuster Art Shows”, BBC World Service, “Business Matters”, forthcoming
“Parliament’s failure to update biometrics regulation risks unlawful use and allows inequality of rights for people — especially children — across the United Kingdom”, BBC World Service ‘Tech Tent’, 21 September 2018
BBC World Service, "Tech Tent", 'Could the pioneering female code-breakers of World War 2 inspire a new generation of women and girls into cyber-security work?', 4 May 2018
KEYNOTES
Urborteum, Centres and Peripheries, Reconfiguring Post-Covid-19 Urban Landscapes, British Embassy in Paris, “Smart Cities, Surveillance Cities?”, February 2021
KPMG,’Ethics in the Age of AI’, January 2021
SOLACE, “Technology Ethics for Local Government”, October 2020
Rethinking Resilience’, US and Latin America audience, Citywire, September 2020
‘Rethinking Resilience’, UK audience, Citywire, September 2020
“AI&I”vTalk, “After the Pandemic: A Look into the Future”, Vodaphone Institute, June 2020
‘Technology Ethics’, Teiss, February 2020
‘We Are the Architect of Our Own Demise’, Oxford Union, February 2020
‘Technology Ethics and Wealth’, Fairstone, January 2020Keynote, ‘Facing Up to Facial Recognition’, Oxted, November 2019
BBC ‘Emerging Technologies’ conference, London, October 2019
‘The UK Biometrics Strategy One Year On: Problems and Solutions’, RESET 2019, June 2019
“Biometrics: Facial Technology on Trial”, CogX 2019, June 2019
Facing Up to Biometrics, Human Entities (a series of public talks focused on the ways culture and technology shape and influence each other), for the art group CADA and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon, April 2019
Why We Must Regulate the Use of Biometrics, DataFest19, Edinburgh, March 2019
ONLINE/PRINT INTERVIEWS
Financial Times, “Big Tech Signs Up to Indonesia’s Strict Content Law,” 21 July 2022
BBC, “Facebook owner Meta updates its privacy policy,” 26 May 2022
Guardian, “‘Conditioning an Entire Society’: The Rise of Biometric Data Technology"“, 26 October 2021
Bloomberg, ‘Amazon’s Ring Camera Has an Eavesdropping Problem’, 15 October 2021
Bloomberg, “Amazon’s New Robot Astro Is A Privacy Minefield"“, 30 September 2021
Computer Weekly, “Europe’s Proposed AI Regulation Falls Short on Protecting Rights”, 14 June 2021
The Washington Post, “PimEyes: This facial recognition website can turn anyone into a cop — or a stalker”, 14 May 2021
National Geographic, “The daunting challenges surrounding vaccine passports”, 13 April 2021
BBC, “Gmail ‘safer than parliament’s email system’ says Tory MP”, 13 April 2021
BBC, ‘Silencing Trump: How ‘Big Tech’ Is Taking Trumpism Offline’, 12 January 2020
BBC, “Facebook Pours Fuel on Apple Privacy Row”, 16 December 2020
BBC, “Apple Forces Apps to Display What They Do with Data”, 15 December 2020
BBC, ‘Facebook: Biden aide Bill Russo attacks post-election role’, 10 November 2020
BBC, ‘Popular App T&Cs Longer than Harry Potter’, 6 November 2020
New Scientist, “Is Police Use of Facial Recognition Now Illegal in the UK?”, 11 August 2020
CNBC, ‘Why coronavirus contact tracing apps haven’t been a 'gamechanger'’, 3 July 2020
CNN, ‘Amazon and Microsoft Stopped Working with Police on Facial Recognition. For Others, It’s Big Business’, 3 July 2020
Vodaphone Institute for Society and Communications, “Shaping a New Era: How Artificial Intelligence Will Impact the Next Decade”,15 June 2020
BBC, “Coronavirus contact tracing: my new skill”, 23 May 2020
WIRED, ‘Facebook plans to install portals in thousands of UK care homes’, 6 April 2020
BBC News, ‘EU Plans New Rules for AI but Experts Seek More Detail’, 19 February 2020
CBC, ‘Canada’s 5G/Huawei Dilemma’, 7 February 2020
BBC One, ‘London Metropolitan Police Announces Roll-Out of Live Facial Recognition Technology despite calls for a Moratorium’, 24 January 2020
NBC News, ‘Under Pressure from US and China, UK Faces Dilemma on Huawei’, 18 January 2020
New Scientist, ‘Big Tech Data Abuse Capped Off Silicon Valley’s Decade-Long Fall’, 18 December 2019
Financial Times, “Facial Recognition: How China Cornered the Surveillance Market”, 6 December 2019
The Economist, Schumpeter column, “The Redmond Doctrine: Lessons from Microsoft’s Corporate Foreign Policy”, 10 September 2019
BBC Online, “Met Police Gave Images for King’s Cross Facial Recognition Scans”, 4 September 2019
New York Post, “Amazon Tests Whole Foods Payment System that Uses Hands as ID”, 3 September 2019
BBC Online, “King’s Cross: Facial Recognition Last Used in 2018”, 2 September 2019
CNBC, “Tech Giants Want Rules on Facial Recognition, but Critics Warn that Won’t Be Enough”, 30 August 2019
BBC Online, ‘Facial Recognition in King’s Cross Prompts Call for New Laws’, 13 August 2019
BBC Online, ‘King’s Cross Developer Defends Use of Facial Recognition’, 12 August 2019
Financial Times, ‘London’s King’s Cross Using Facial Recognition in Security Cameras’,12 August 2019
Financial Times, ‘How London Became a Test Case for Using Facial Recognition in Democracies’, 1 August 2019
Johns Hopkins SAIS (Bologna), “What Can We Do to Reduce Our Exposure to Technology Risks?”. 24 May 2019
BBC, “5G is here — so what?”, 30 May 2019
TIME magazine, “Inside the Controversial Company Helping China Control the Internet”, 23 May 2019
Podcast with Brian Hill of The Data Lab, “Biometrics: use and legislation (or lack thereof) in the United Kingdom”, 23 May 2019
DIGIT, “Sacrificing Freedom in the Name of Safety: The Biometrics Paradox”, 29 April 2019
University of Oxford, ‘If privacy is a fundamental human right, and therefore a legal requirement, should people have to pay for it?’, 30 October 2018
BBC Online, 'Facebook data and Cambridge Analytica - as scandalous as MPs' expenses?' by Rory Cellan-Jones, 19 March 2018
TV INTERVIEWS
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence: Decoded”, 24 October 2024
BBC Television, Artificial Intelligence: Decoded, 10 October 2024
BBC Television, Artificial Intelligence: Decoded, 19 September 2024
BBC Television, “Reaction to Karen Hao’s article ‘Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on AI’, 16 September 2024
BBC Television, Artificial Intelligence: Decoded, 5 September 2024
BBC Breakfast, Fallout from the CrowdStrike Global IT Outage, 20 July 2024
BBC Television, CrowdStrike Software Update Causes Global IT Outage, 19 July 2024
BBC Television, Artificial Intelligence: Decoded, 18 July 2024
BBC Television, The Context, The King’s Speech: No AI, lots on Smart Data, 17 July 2024
BBC Television, ‘Artificial Intelligence: Decoded’, 27 June 2024
BBC Television, ‘Artificial Intelligence: Decoded’, 13 June 2024
BBC Television, ‘Artificial Intelligence: Decoded’, 6 June 2024
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence: Decoded”, 23 May 2024
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence: Decoded”, 2 May 2024
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence: Decoded”, 18 April 2024
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence: Decoded”, 4 April 2024
BBC Television, ‘Ahead of the sentencing for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, convicted of fraud and money laundering,” 28 March 2024
BBC Television, “The Context”, 20 March 2024
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence: Decoded”, 14 March 2024
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence: Decoded”, 29 February 2024
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence: Decoded”, 15 February 2024
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence: Decoded”, 1 February 2024
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence: Decoded”, 11 January 2024
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence: Decoded”, 4 January 2024
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence: Decoded”, 14 December 2023
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence: Decoded”, 7 December 2023
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence Decoded”, 30 November 2023
BBC Television, ‘World Business Report: What Next for AI after Sam Altman is fired by OpenAI and hired by Microsoft (but will he join?)”, 20 November 2023
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence Decoded”, 16 November 2023
BBC Television, “Artificial Intelligence Decoded: Analysis of the UK AI Safety Summit and Outlook for AI Regulation", 2 November 2023
BBC Television, “UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Announces AI Policy Direction ahead of the AI Safety Summit”, 26 October 2023
BBC Television, “UK National Cyber Security Centres Warns Business about the Risks of Large Language Models”, 30 August 2023
BBC Television, “EU Digital Services Act comes into force for Very Large Online Platforms”, 25 August 2023
BBC World Television and BBC News Channel, “Some AI Experts Warn that AI Risks Should be on par with Pandemics and Nuclear War”, 30 May 2023
Channel 4, “Some AI Experts Warn that AI Risks Should be on par with Pandemics and Nuclear War”, 30 May 2023
BBC World Television, “UK Competition and Markets Authority Launches Review into AI Market”, 4 May 2023
BBC World Television, “UK data regulator (ICO) fines TikTok for Unlawfully Taking Children’s Data”, 4 April 2023
BBC World Television, “TikTok CEO Testifies to US Congress ahead of Possible Ban”, 23 March 2023
BBC News Channel, “UK legal action against YouTube for alleged illegal harvesting of children’s data”, 1 March 2023
BBC World Television, “Disappearance of Bao Fan Raises Questions about Renewed China Tech/Finance Crackdown”, 17 February 2023
BBC World Television, ‘Talking Business’, “Is the party over for the technology sector?”, 26 November 2022
BBC World Television, “Twitter Layoffs: Just an Elon Musk Thing vs the Tech Downturn More Generally?”, 4 November 2022
BBC News, “Outlook for Twitter Following Elon Musk’s Acquisition,” 28 October 2022
BBC World Television, “Cyberspace Administration of China Says It Wants an ‘Affectionate’ Relationship between the Government and Tech Companies", 19 August 2022
Voice of America, “Scanning the Corpse’s Face: Ukrainians Using Facial Recognition Technology to Identify Russian Soldiers”, 20 May 2022
BBC World Television, “Meta Aims to Monetise WhatsApp with Custom Dashboards Hosted on the Cloud for All-Size Businesses”, 20 May 2022
Good Morning Britain, “Elon Musk Has Bought Twitter: Now What?”, 26 April 2022
BBC News Channel, “Elon Musk Has Bought Twitter: Now What?”, 25 April 2022
BBC News Outside Source with Ros Atkins, “Elon Musk Has Bought Twitter: Now What?”, 25 April 2022
BBC World Television, “How Serious Is Elon Musk’s Bid for Twitter?”, 25 April 2022
BBC World Television, “Facebook and Spotify Results Disappoint — But Maybe Just for the Short Term”, 3 February 2022
BBC World Television, “Facebook Pledges to Delete over 1 Billion Face Scans but Leaves the Door Open for Further Facial Recognition Technology”, 3 November 2021
BBC World Television, “Amid the global shortage of semiconductor chips, Apple and Alibaba plot a path towards self-sufficiency and supply chain resilience,” 19 October 2021.
BBC World Television, “Facebook Whistleblower’s Revelations Will Only Matter if SEC Finds Evidence of Lawbreaking”, 4 October 2021.
BBC World Television and News Channel,”Facebook Accused of Discrimination in Job Advertising”, 7 September 2021
BBC World Television, “Will El Salvador’s Bet on Bitcoin Pay Off?”, 7 September 2021
BBC World Television, ‘T-Mobile’s customer data gets stolen — again. What needs to change for companies to protect customer data?’ 18 August 2021
BBC World Television, ‘What Disney’s blowout third quarter results tell us about trends in the pandemic and live-streaming’, 13 August 2021
BBC Click, “The Future Is Now: image recognition”, 24 July 2021
BBC World Television, “Beijing’s Crackdown on Chinese Technology Firm Signals Loss of Control”, 5 July 2021
BBC World Television, “Ransomware attack on JSB is more than a cybersecurity story: its a global resilience story”, 2 June 2021
BBC World Television, “Ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline Threatens US Energy Supplies”,10 May 2021
BBC World Television, “EU Files Anti-Trust Charges against Apple”, 30 April 2021
BBC World Television, “Facebook Refriends Australia, Agrees to Pay for Content and Avoid Forced Arbitration”, 23 February 2021
Sky News, “Facebook Removes News Content in and from Australia, While Google Pays Up”, 18 February 2021
Deutsche Welle, ‘Google Threatens to Leave Australia over New Law, While Cutting a Deal with France to Pay Publishers’, 22 January 2021
BBC World Television, ‘US Technology Companies Under Fire for Their Role in Trump Supporters’ Insurrection — Now What?”, 11 January 2020
BBC World Television, “SolarWinds Is Looking Like the Worst Hack in History — Now What?”, 18 December 2020
BBC World Television, “US Treasury and Commerce Hacked, SolarWinds”, 14 December 2020
BBC World Television, “US government sues Facebook for anti-trust, calls for breakup", 10 December 2020
BBC World Television, “FireEye Hack Raises Cybersecurity Concerns”, 9 December 2020
BBC World Television, “Why Is the UK a Hotbed of Technology Investment despite Brexit?”, 8 December 2020
BBC World Television, “Will today’s US Senate hearings with CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google Lead to Section 230 Reform?” 28 October 2020
BBC World Television, “China’s new Export Control Law Signals a Shift in the US-China Tech War”, 16 October 2020
BBC World Television, “US Democrats Recommend Antitrust Action against Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google but Republicans Aren’t So Sure”, 7 October 2020
Sky News, ‘Assessing the new NHS COVID-19 app for England and Wales, which came out today”, 24 September 2020
BBC World, ‘India’s Informal Ban of Huawei Will Slow 5G Rollout’, 25 August 2020
BBC World, ‘Microsoft May Buy TikTok after Trump Threatens to Ban It, 3 August 2020
BBC World, ‘US May Ban China’s TikTok, Citing Security Concerns — to Facebook’s Gain’, 20 July 2020
BBC World, ‘UK Faces Decision Time over Huawei as US Sanctions Raise Pressure’, 6 July 2020
BBC World, “Trump vs Twitter and the President’s Threat to Abolish Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (1996)”, 29 May 2020
ITV, “Good Morning Britain”, “Assessment of the UK’s Contact Tracing App v.01”, 8 May 2020
BBC World, “Assessment of the UK’s Contact Tracing App v.01”, 5 May 2020
BBC World, ‘Google Tracking Our Location in the Coronavirus Pandemic: Pros, Cons and Questions’, 3 April 2020
BBC News, ‘United Kingdom Ignores United States and Australia, Will Allow China’s Huawei to Help Build 5G’, 28 January 2020
BBC World, ‘United Kingdom Ignores United States and Australia, Will Allow China’s Huawei to Help Build 5G’, 28 January 2020
BBC World, ‘US-UK differences on Huawei risk approach decision point’, 14 January 2020
BBC World, ‘Travelex ransomware’, 9 January 2020
BBC World, ‘France’s digital tax is a sign of things to come: more countries will likely follow suit, defying US retaliation"‘, 6 January 2020
BBC World, ‘France’s Constitutional Court allows government to proceed with 3-year trial of AI to scan social media for evidence of tax evasion and fraud’, 28 December 2019
BBC Click, ‘Can China Overtake Silicon Valley?’, 14 December 2019
BBC 2, ‘Victoria Derbyshire’, ‘Should Social Media Platforms Allow Backdoors to Encryption to Keep Kids Safe?’, 4 December 2019
BBC World, “New China law requires facial recognition to use the internet”, 30 November 2019
BBC News, ‘Uber loses London licence and confirms plans to start using facial recognition technology’, 25 November 2019
BBC World, ‘Sir Tim Berners-Lee unveils a Contract for the Web to halt the misuse of the World Wide Web and ensure it benefits humanity’, 25 November 2019
BBC World, ‘Google Changes Tack on Political Advertising, But Will It Be Enough to Help Protect Elections?”, 21 November 2019
BBC World, ‘Digital Content for Kids: Pivot from Video to Audio?’, 6 November 2019
Deutsche Welle, ‘UK’s Upcoming Decision on Facial Recognition Technology Will Guide Democracies Everywhere’, 10 October 2019
BBC One, ‘Breakfast’, ‘Facial Recognition in the United Kingdom vs the United States: why we need a democratic debate for surveillance technologies”, 14 September 2019
BBC World Television, “Trump Talks Tough on Huawei While Extending Temporary Licence for Another 90 Days”, 19 August 2019
BBC News Channel, “Trump Talks Tough on Huawei While Extending Temporary Licence for Another 90 Days”, 19 August 2019
BBC One, ‘Facial recognition technology in London — is this legal? What are our rights?’, 12 August 2019
BBC World, The Briefing, 13 August 2019
BBC World Television, ‘WhatsApp Flaws Allow Messenges and Identities to be Altered, and Facebook Can’t Fix It (and Has Known for a Year)’, 8 August 2019
BBC World Television, ‘Cloudflare Dumps 8Chan: What Role (If Any) Do Technology Companies Have in Preventing Gun Massacres?’ 5 August 2019
Al-Jazeera, “All Hail the Algorithm: Is Biometric Technology Protecting or Seriously Compromising Our Privacy?”, 23 July 2019
BBC World Television, ‘US tech companies go to the White House to discuss “economic restrictions” likely related to Huawei’, 22 July 2019
BBC World Television, ‘Why does US Senator Chuck Schumer want the FBI and the FTC to investigate FaceApp?’, 17 July 2019
BBC World Television, ‘Facebook’s plan to launch a cryptocurrency could disrupt banking — and so faces regulatory scrutiny’, 16 July 2019
BBC World Television, “Impact Minds debate: How Is AI Changing the World?”, 11 July 2019
BBC World Television, “Huawei quantifies damage from US pressure”, 17 June 2019
BBC World Television, “US President Donald Trump Will Deliver His Message on Wanting Huawei Out of US Allies’ Networks. Will the UK Agree?”, 3 June 2019
BBC World Television, ‘GMT’, “Huawei's Chief Legal Officer Dr Song Liupin’s press conference updating on the company’s legal action against the US government”, 29 May 2019
BBC News Channel, “Huawei's Chief Legal Officer Dr Song Liupin’s press conference updating on the company’s legal action against the US government”, 29 May 2019
BBC World Television, ‘Talking Business’, “US Senate Considers Support for Telecoms to Rip Out Huawei”, 28 May 2019
BBC World Television, Impact, ‘Huawei fallout’, 23 May 2019
BBC World Television, Global Business, “Does US action against Huawei signal a new tech Cold War?”, 21 May 2019
BBC World Television, ‘GMT’, ‘US Gives Huawei and Its Suppliers and Customers a 90-day Reprieve. Now what?’, 21 May 2019
BBC Click, ‘Questions from the Public about Facial Recognition Technology in the UK’, 19 May 2019
BBC News, ‘Politics Live’, ‘Should the UK use facial recognition technology? If so, with what safeguards?’ 17 May 2019
BBC One, News at 10, ‘US actions targeting Huawei increase pressure on the UK government over 5G’, 16 May 2019
BBC Click,’5G Whizz’, 6 May 2019
BBC World Television, ‘Talking Business’, “What does the US ban of Huawei anywhere in the 5G network future for the Special Relationship and the Five Eyes?”, 30 April 2019
BBC World Television, The Briefing, ‘Amazon’s Q12019 results: what they mean’, 25 April 2019
BBC One, Politics Live, ‘The UK government reportedly decided to allow China’s Huawei to build Britain’s 5G network. What does this mean?’ 24 April 2019
BBC World, The Briefing, "‘Samsung’s Folding Phones Sent Back to the Drawing Board’, 23 April 2019
BBC World, ‘Talking Business’, “China gives a masterclass in the Streisand effect: Leica, Huawei, Saatchi ad and the Tianamen Square massacre”, 19 April 2019
BBC One, Panorama, ‘Can We Trust Huawei?’, 8 April 2019
BBC World Television, ‘Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Requests Internet Regulation‘, 1 April 2019
BBC World Television, ‘EU fines Google for the third time in three years on anti-competitive charges’, 20 March 2019
BBC World Television, “New Zealand Massacre Raises Questions about Social Media Companies’ Live Streaming Tool’, 18 March 2019
BBC World Television, “Outlook for Facebook as More Executives Leave” 15 March 2019
BBC One, “News at One: New Zealand Massacre: The Technical Challenges of Removing Videos from Social Media”, 15 March 2019
BBC News Channel, ‘What’s Behind Facebook’s Outage?’, 14 March 2019
BBC World Television, “UK Parliament Wants to Regulate Facebook to prevent tech companies from acting like ‘digital gangsters’”, 18 February 2019
BBC World Television, ‘China’s Huawei is a flashpoint for the global battle to dominate 5G’, 17 January 2019
BBC World Television, “Facebook’s year in review — and what challenges it faces in 2019”, 24 December 2018
BBC World Television, “Global”, ‘Implications of Canada Arresting Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer, Will Extradite to the US on Allegations of Violating Iran Sanctions’, 6 December 2018
BBC World Television, “The Briefing”, ‘Canada Arrests Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer, Will Extradite to the US on Allegations of Violating Iran Sanctions’, 6 December 2018
BBC World Television, ‘How Britain Outsmarted Facebook to Get Damning Data in Time For a House of Commons Testimony’, 26 November 2018
BBC World Television, The Briefing, ‘Biometrics in China and the United Kingdom’, 14 November 2018
BBC World Television, ‘GMT’ and ‘Talking Business’, “Reflecting on the legacy of Paul Allen: Microsoft co-founder, investor, philanthropist”, 15 October 2018
BBC World Television, ‘Bloomberg Businessweek reports that China has hacked 30 American companies and branches of the US government; Apple and Amazon deny it; US officials are saying nothing on record’, (Interview 2 of 2), 5 October 2018
BBC World Television, ‘Bloomberg Businessweek reports that China has hacked 30 American companies and branches of the US government; Apple and Amazon deny it; US officials are saying nothing on record’, (Interview 1 of 2), 5 October 2018
BBC World Television, ‘Facebook breach affecting 50-90 million users may be a GDPR test case’, 1 October 2018
BBC News Channel, 'British Airways data theft: what happens now and how should those affected protect themselves?', 7 September 2018
BBC World Television, 'As Bitcoin falls yet again, what is the outlook for cryptocurrencies?', 7 September 2018
BBC World Television, 'Your voice is biometric data, and that presents opportunities and risks for technology -- and a need for technology ethics and regulation at core', 21 August 2018
BBC World Television, "Talking Business", 'Tencent hit where it hurts by China's regulator amid concerns over online game addiction', 15 August 2018
BBC World Television, "The Briefing", 'Will Elon Musk take Tesla private?', 8 August 2018
BBC World Television, "The Briefing", 'After reaching a $1tr valuation, what's next for Apple? (strategy)', 3 August 2018
BBC World Television, "The Briefing", 'After reaching a $1tr valuation, what's next for Apple? (political risk)', 3 August 2018
BBC Business Live, "US President Donald Trump's strategy to vet foreign investment amid growing concerns that China is buying up sensitive technology", 28 June 2018
BBC World Television, 'Facebook's easy ride before the European Parliament, French President Emmanuel Macron wants France to replace the United Kingdom as Europe's tech hub', 23 May 2018
BBC News Channel, 'Facebook's Response to the Cambridge Analytica Data Sharing Scandal Do Not Go Far Enough', 23 March 2018
BBC One, News at 6/News at 10, "Facebook Data Sharing to Cambridge Analytica...and Beyond", 20 March 2018
BBC World Television, "Talking Business", "Privacy by Default, Possible Greater Regulatory Powers, and the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Aftermath", 20 March 2018
BBC World Television, "Talking Business", "Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Exposes Facebook Data Sharing: 50 million users", 19 March 2018
BBC World Television, GMT, "Kylie Jenner's $1.3 billion dollar tweet on Snap's redesign", 23 February 2018
BBC World News, "Talking Business", "Facebook's Messenger for Kids: does it solve a data protection problem or create a new one?", 5 December 2017
BBC World News, "Uber paid $100,000 to conceal hack of 57 million customers", 22 November 2017
BBC World News, "Talking Business", "Who owns our data? What is knowable about us? What control do we have over our data and how it is gathered, used and stored? How are these questions being addressed across the world, and how will companies and people navigate digital fragmentation?",1 November 2017
RADIO INTERVIEWS/PODCASTS/ONLINE EVENTS
BBC World Service, Business Matters, 11 October 2024
BBC World Service, Business Matters, 20 August 2024
BBC World Service, Business Matters, 23 July 2024
BBC Radio Five Live, CrowdStrike Software Update Causes Global IT Outage, 19 July 2024
BBC World Service, World Business Report, 19 July 2024
BBC World Service, Business Matters, 5 July 2024
BBC World Service, Business Matters, 23 May 2024
BBC World Service, Business Matters, 16 April 2024
BBC World Service, Business Matters, 5 March 2024
BBC World Service, Business Matters, 24 February 2024
BBC World Service, “Business Matters”, 2 December 2023
BBC World Service, Newsday, “Update on the OpenAI/Microsoft/Sam Altman Firing Saga”, 21 November 2023
BBC World Service, “Business Matters”, “Insurance: the Cost of Destruction + US-China chips war”, 1 September 2023
BBC Radio Ulster, “Michael Schumacher’s Family to Sue over AI-Generated ‘Interview’, 21 April 2023
BBC World Service, “Business Matters”, “Ethics of Generative AI Technologies, US-China Decoupling, Biden Climate Ambitions”, 21 April 2023
BBC World Service, Newshour, “The Many Things We Did Not Learn from the BBC’s Interview with Elon Musk”, 12 April 2023
BBC World Service, World Business Report, 8 April 2023
World Service, World Business Report, “Outlook for the semiconductor industry as Samsung cuts production”, 7 April 2023
BBC Radio 5 Live, “UK national emergency alert will be tested on an estimated 90% of phones this month”, 6 April 2023
BBC Radio Scotland, “UK data regulator (ICO) fines TikTok for Unlawfully Taking Children’s Data”, 4 April 2023
BBC World Service, Business Matters, “TikTok Under Firet, Again, as a Possible National Security Risk”, 16 March 2023
BBC World Service, Digital Planet, “Digital Identity: Where Are We Now?”, 7 March 2023
BBC Radio Ulster, Sunday Sequence, “Surveillance: Are We Getting Closer to George Orwell’s 1984?”, 19 February 2023
BBC World Service, Business Matters, “EU Digital Services Act, Manchester United Sale, Munich Security Conference, Mobile Gaming in Finland,” 18 February 2023
BBC World Service, Business Matters, “US Speaker of the House drama; Glencore under pressure over ESG; Bolivia turmoil; WhatsApp proxy servers”, 6 January 2023
BBC World Business Report, “Google Receives Largest Fine in US History for Wrongful and Misleading Location Tracking of Users,” 14 November 2022
BBC Radio 5 Live, “Outlook for Twitter Following Elon Musk’s Acquisition,” 28 October 2022
BBC World Business Report, Tech companies’ declining advertising revenues, 26 October 2022
BBC World Service, Business Matters, (Rishi Sunak becomes new UK prime minister, China’s slowing growth, leadership amidst uncertainty), 25 October 2022
BBC World Service, Business Matters (Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones fined $1bn for defamation; leadership qualities; US inflation), 13 October 2022
BBC World Service, Business Matters (Hurricane Ian, UK financial crisis, Porsche IPO, Brazil election, World Cup, Australia data breach), 30 September 2022
BBC World Service, Business Matters (Twitter whistleblower testimony, US inflation, death of Jean-Luc Godard and the future of French cinema), 14 September 2022
BBC World Service, Business Matters (new UK prime minister Liz Truss, Instagram fined, China taking Tibetans’ DNA), 6 September 2022
The Data Lab podcast, A Panopticon of Our Own Making, 16 August 2022
The Data Lab podcast, Technology Ethics, 3 August 2022
Oversharing podcast, ‘The Wicked Problem of Technology Ethics,” 12 June 2022
BBC World Service, Business Matters, 4 June 2022
BBC World Service, Tech Tent, “Clearview AI, sexual assault in the metaverse, period trackers, home robots”, 27 May 2022
BBC World Service, “The Advertising Trap”, 21 May 2022
BBC Radio 5 Live, “Elon Musk Puts Twitter Acquisition Temporarily On Hold, Signalling Possible Price Renegotiation”, 13 May 2022
Interview with Marco Ciappelli for the ITSP Magazine podcast, 11 March 2022
Interview with Mark Littlewood, Business of Software conference, 9 March 2022
Interview with Paddy Stephens for the Ethics for a Changing World podcast, 7 March 2022
Interview with Justin Hendrix for the Tech Policy Press ‘The Sunday Show’ podcast, 27 February 2022
‘Discussion of Technology Is Not Neutral: A short guide to technology ethics by Stephanie Hare’, BBC World Service “Business Matters”, 23 February 2022
‘Discussion of Technology Is Not Neutral: A short guide to technology ethics by Stephanie Hare’, BBC World Service ‘Digital Planet’, 22 February 2022
‘Where (if anywhere) should facial recognition be used?’, The Naked Scientist (listen) (transcript), 13 February 2022
BBC Radio Belfast, “5G Showdown between US Airlines and US Telecoms”, 19 January 2022
BBC World Service, ‘Business Matters’, “How the World Is Responding to the Omicron Variant",” 21 December 2021
BBC Radio 4, ‘Business Daily’, ‘Amazon Agrees to Allow only 5-Star Reviews for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Book’, 21 December 2021
BBC World Service, “Business Matters’, “New Omicron Variant Causes Concern and What Makes a Thanksgiving Meal?”, 26 November 2021
BBC World Service, ‘Business Weekly’, “Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Has Spoken. Now What?”, 9 October 2021.
BBC Radio Foyle, Ulster and Stephen Nolan, “Facebook Outage Underscores Importance of Resilience”, 5 October 2021.
BBC World Service, ‘Business Matters’, “President Joe Biden Convenes CEOs to Prioritise Cybersecurity”, 26 August 2021
BBC Radio Wales, “Will the NHS Covid-19 notification app still ‘work’ after July 19?”, 13 July 2021
BBC Radio 5 Live, “Will the NHS Covid-19 notification app still ‘work’ after July 19?”, 13 July 2021
BBC World Service, ‘Business Matters’, “China’s cyber regulator starts to rein in Big (Chinese) Tech”, 5 July 2021
BBC World Service, ‘Digital Planet’, “PimEyes: when does a tool/technology become a weapon?’, 19 May 2021
BBC World Service, ‘Digital Planet’, “Analysis of the European Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation for Artificial Intelligence”, 27 April 2021
BBC World Service, ‘Tech Tent’, “Facebook vs Australia: who won? And will other countries follow suit?”, 26 February 2021
BBC World Service, ‘Newsday’, “Amazon and Alphabet post blow-out results and Jeff Bezos Steps Down’, 3 February 2021
BBC World Service, “The Climate Question”, ‘Can the Internet Ever Be Green?’, 8 February 2021
BBC World Service, “Business Matters”, ‘Google Threatens to Leave Australia over New Law, While Cutting a Deal with France to Pay Publishers’, 22 January 2021
BBC Radio 5 Live, ‘US Technology Companies Under Fire for Their Role in Trump Supporters’ Insurrection — Now What?”, 12 January 2020
BBC Radio 4/World Service, ‘Business Matters’, ‘US Technology Companies Under Fire for Their Role in Trump Supporters’ Insurrection — Now What?”, 11 January 2020
BBC Northern Ireland, ‘US Technology Companies Under Fire for Their Role in Trump Supporters’ Insurrection — Now What?”, 11 January 2020
BBC World Service, ‘Newshour’, “US government sues Facebook for anti-trust, calls for breakup", 10 December 2020
BBC World Service, “Digital Planet”, 8 December 2020
BBC World Service, “Business Matters”, 26 November 2020
BBC World Service, ”World Business Report, “Will today’s US Senate hearings with CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google Lead to Section 230 Reform?” 28 October 2020
BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire, “Frequently Asked Questions about the new NHS COVID-19 App”, 29 September 2020
BBC Radio 5 Live, “Assessment of the NHS COVID-19 app for England Wales, released today”, 24 September 2020
BBC World Service, World Business Report, “What the sale of ARM means for competition in the superconducting industry and the US-China tech war”, 14 September 2020
Big Brother Watch podcast with Silkie Carlo and Evan Sellinger, ‘Covid-19 and the Rise of Biosurveillance’, 21 July 2020
BBC World Service, World Business Report, “What next for EU-US data sharing now that the ECJ has ruled that Privacy Shield is invalid?”, 16 July 2020
BBC World Service, “Digital Planet”, ‘Is This the End of Facial Recognition?’,16 June 2020
BBC World Service, “Tech Tent”, ‘IBM, Amazon and Microsoft Will No Longer Sell Facial Recognition Technology to US Police Departments (But Read the Fine Print)’, 12 June 2020
BBC Radio 4, Inside Science, “Testing and Tracing the Coronavirus, and the Traces Our Movements Leave Behind”, 28 May 2020
BBC Three Counties, “UK contact tracing launches (without app)”, 28 May 2020
BBC World Service, Tech Tent, South Korea’s Use of Surveillance Technology Is Helping to Contain Coronavirus. Could It Work Elsewhere?, 15 May 2020
BBC Radio 5 Live, “Assessment of the UK Government’s Contact Tracing App”, 5 May 2020
BBC Radio Three Counties, “Assessment of the UK Government’s Contact Tracing App”, 5 May 2020
TalkRadio London, ‘Assessment of Digital Contact Tracing Apps: Why I Won’t Be Downloading the UK Version (as it currently stands)”, 29 April 2020
European Council on Foreign Relations, ‘App-solutely necessary:? Technology as a way out of the coronavirus’, 17 April 2020
TalkRadio London, ‘Surveillance in a Pandemic…and Afterwards’, 14 April 2020
BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire, ‘Overview of Meditation Apps and How They Can Help Look after Your Health’, 14 April 2020
BBC World Service/Radio 4 Business Daily, ‘Coronavirus and Surveillance’, 9 April 2020
BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire, ‘Pros and Cons of Different Platforms to Use to Stay Connected during Coronavirus’, 24 March 2020
BBC Radio 4, ‘World at One’, ‘GCHQ warns about insecure baby cameras and other IoT devices’, 3 March 2020
BBC World Service, ‘US Claims Huawei Is Exploiting Backdoors to Access Mobile Networks’, 12 February 2020
CBC, ‘Canada’s 5G/Huawei Dilemma’, 7 February 2020
BBC Radio Kent, ‘London Metropolitan Police Is Rolling Out Live Facial Recognition Technology’, 28 January 2020
BBC Radio 5 Live, London Metropolitan Police Announces Roll-Out of Live Facial Recognition Technology despite calls for a Moratorium’, 24 January 2020
BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester, London Metropolitan Police Announces Roll-Out of Live Facial Recognition Technology despite calls for a Moratorium’, 24 January 2020
BBC Radio London, London Metropolitan Police Announces Roll-Out of Live Facial Recognition Technology despite calls for a Moratorium’, 24 January 2020
BBC Radio 4, ‘Today programme’, Travelex ransomware, 8 January 2020
BBC Radio 3, ‘Free Thinking’, “Speaking the Right Language”, 12 December 2019
BBC World Service, ‘Digital Planet’, “Facial Recognition in China versus in liberal democracies”, 10 December 2019
BBC World Service, ‘Tech Tent’, 6 December 2019
BBC Radio 4, ‘Today programme’, “New China law requires facial recognition to use the internet”, 30 November 2019
BBC Radio Surrey, ‘Facial recognition technology: what are the risks and opportunities and how does the UK compare to the rest of the world?”, 28 November 2018
BBC Radio 4, “Pandora’s Ballot Box”, 16 November 2019
BBC Radio 4, “Today programme”, ‘Google launch of ‘smart’ current accounts raises regulatory concerns as Big Tech moves into financial services’, 14 November 2019
BBC World Service, Digital Planet, “CrimeTech”, 5 November 2019
BBC Radio 4, PM, ‘Companies Are Increasingly Using AI for Recruiting — Is It Better or Worse at the Job?’, 25 October 2019
BBC Radio 4, “Beyond Today”, ‘Who Controls Our AI Future?’, 11 October 2019
BBC World Service, “World Business Report”, 21 September 2019
BBC World Service, “Tech Tent”, 20 September 2019
BBC World Service, ‘World Business Report’, “The Biometric Future of Shopping”, 10 September 2019
BBC World Service, "Tech Tent”, 5 September 2019
BBC World Service, ‘Business Matters’, 31 August 2019
BBC Radio Scotland, ‘Big Brother Watch Reveals Britain’s Facial Recognition Epidemic’, 16 August 2019
BBC Radio Foyle, ‘Big Brother Watch Reveals Britain’s Facial Recognition Epidemic’, 16 August 2019
BBC World Service, “Tech Tent”, 26 July 2019
BBC World Service, “Tech Tent”, 5 July 2019
BBC Radio 4, “PM”, “Facial recognition technology in the United Kingdom: why we need a moratorium and a biometrics strategy that protects our civil liberties”, 20 June 2019
BBC Radio 4, ‘Today’, “Facebook plans to launch cryptocurrency — will it succeed and if so, what will it mean?”, 24 May 2019
BBC Radio 4, ‘Inside Science’, ‘Facial recognition technology: problems and opportunities’, 23 May 2019
BBC World Service, 'Digital Planet’, 21 May 2019
BBC Radio Kent, ‘Liberty’s legal action against South Wales Police over facial recognition technology’, 21 May 2019
BBC World Service, ‘World Business Report’, “What will Apple look like in 10 years?”, 30 April 2019
BBC World Service, ‘Tech Tent: Huawei and 5G global lines are being drawn’, 26 April 2019
BBC World Service, ‘Tech Tent’, 15 February 2019
BBC World Service, ‘Click’, “Our changing relationship with technology: trends for 2019”, 1 January 2019
LBC, “London Metropolitan police trial facial recognition technology in central London”, 17 December 2018
BBC World Service, ‘Newsday’, “Canada Arrests Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer, Will Extradite to the US on Allegations of Violating Iran Sanctions”, 6 December 2018
BBC World Service, ‘Newsday’, “The British Parliament Seized Data Relating to Facebook Ahead of a Parliamentary Enquiry on November 27”, 27 November 2018
BBC World Service, "World Business Report", 'Google workers protesting against building a censorship-facilitating search engine for China', 17 August 2018
BBC World Service, 'Newsday', analysis of Alphabet/Google Q2 earnings, 24 July 2018
BBC Radio 4, "Today programme", analysis of Alphabet/Google Q2 earnings/Trump vs the EU, 24 July 2018
BBC World Service, 'Tech Tent', "Battle Over Copyright Uploads", 6 July 2018
BBC World Service, 'World Business Report', "Special one-hour episode on Money, Power and Tech", 29 June 2018
Martha Debacle on W (Mexico), 'Facebook data sharing, Cambridge Analytica, privacy implications', 20 March 2018
BBC Radio Surrey, "Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Exposes Facebook Data Sharing: 50 million users", 20 March 2018
BBC Radio Sussex, "Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Exposes Facebook Data Sharing: 50 million users", 20 March 2018
BBC Radio Foyle, "Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Exposes Facebook Data Sharing: 50 million users", 20 March 2018
BBC Radio Ulster, "Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Exposes Facebook Data Sharing: 50 million users", 20 March 2018
BBC World Service, "Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Exposes Facebook Data Sharing: 50 million users", 20 March 2018
BBC Ulster, "Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Exposes Facebook Data Sharing: 50 million users", 20 March 2018
BBC World Service, "Business Briefing", analysis of Twitter earnings, 8 February 2018
BBC World Service, "World Business Report", analysis of Twitter earnings, 8 February 2018
BBC World Service, "Newsday", analysis of Snap earnings, 7 February 2018
BBC World Service, "World Business Report" analysis of Amazon, Alphabet and Apple earnings, 2 February 2018
BBC Radio 4, "Today programme", analysis of Amazon, Alphabet and Apple earnings, 2 February 2018
BBC World Service, Tech Tent, “Diversity Row Hits Google”, 11 August 2017
BBC Radio 4, "Today programme", "What Brexit means for data protection", 22 March 2017
BBC World Service, Tech Tent, "The Promise and Perils of Data", 25 November 2016