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The Infotagion Podcast with Damian Collins MP

Jul 30, 2020

Damian Collins MP is joined by John Borthwick, Chair of the COVID-19 Technology Taskforce and CEO of Betaworks, who were early investors in Twitter and Tumblr. They discuss the tech companies' response to COVID-19 and compare track and trace technologies around the word.


Jul 20, 2020

How does the newly elected Fianna Fáil government in Ireland plan to tackle misinformation and tech regulation? James Lawless, the party’s science and technology spokesperson, discusses with Damian Collins MP. They are joined by BBC’s disinformation reporter, Marianna Spring who reveals what it’s like engaging...


Jul 10, 2020

The NHSX COVID-19 tracker app in the UK still isn’t fully operational. Did the UK Government choose the wrong tech, or do the tech companies have too much control over the data that’s gathered by their systems? Matt Burgess, Deputy Digital Editor at Wired UK and Michael Veale, Lecturer in Digital Rights and...


Jul 10, 2020

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web, it was intended for everyone. Now it is dominated by a few tech companies who have accumulated huge amounts of data on its users. So Tim decided to make a change. He launched Solid, an open source platform, built to decentralise the web and give citizens more power over their...


Jul 10, 2020

Following the terrorist attacks in Christchurch in March 2019 which were live-streamed to Facebook, Australia passed world-leading legislation that imposed tougher financial and criminal consequences for social media companies if they failed to expedite the removal of violent or extreme content. Damian Collins discusses...