The debate around 5G is being framed as if picking Huawei instead of an European vendor would upset the control telecommunication providers have over their networks. The reality is more grim: we’ve long crossed that bridge, and most providers already do not have a full understanding of their own infrastructure: In a modern telecommunications service […]

Evgeny Morozov: On matters of digital infrastructure, domestic policy is also foreign policy. So, we want to catch all the terrorists before they are born? Fine, Big Data are here to help. But, lest we forget, they would also help the governments of China and Iran to predict and catch future dissidents. We can’t be […]