Timandra Harkness

Timandra Harkness presents the BBC Radio 4 series, FutureProofing and How To Disagree. Her book, Big Data: Does Size Matter? is published by Bloomsbury Sigma.

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Timandra Harkness presents the BBC Radio 4 series, FutureProofing and How To Disagree. Her book, Big Data: Does Size Matter? is published by Bloomsbury Sigma.

The cynical hysteria around AI

BY Timandra Harkness / 5 mins

Coronation surveillance is a step towards a dark future

BY Timandra Harkness / 3 mins

Who watches the robot police dogs?

BY Timandra Harkness / 2 mins

Is the Government spying on you?

BY Timandra Harkness / 4 mins

The trouble with online safetyism

BY Timandra Harkness / 5 mins

The slow death of the NHS

BY Timandra Harkness / 4 mins

Your DNA can now be used against you

BY Timandra Harkness / 3 mins

Apple is cheering on the new normal

BY Timandra Harkness / 2 mins

How Covid stole our privacy

BY Timandra Harkness / 6 mins

The hounding of Kathleen Stock

BY Timandra Harkness / 4 mins

Greenham Women are everywhere

BY Timandra Harkness / 7 mins

Has the Taliban got access to biometric data?

BY Timandra Harkness / 2 mins

Why you’re right to worry about Apple’s new surveillance

BY Timandra Harkness / 2 mins

The Online Safety Bill is a mortal threat to free speech

BY Timandra Harkness / 2 mins

We are hostages to Government fear

BY Timandra Harkness / 6 mins

Why we let Big Brother win

BY Timandra Harkness / 5 mins

Boris needs to take a risk

BY Timandra Harkness / 5 mins

We’ve turned teens into lockdown lab rats

BY Timandra Harkness / 6 mins

Can a computer be moral?

BY Timandra Harkness / 6 mins

The pandemic didn’t shatter society, Zoom did

BY Timandra Harkness / 4 mins

Christmas cancelled? Here’s why you should party like It’s 1656

BY Timandra Harkness / 3 mins

It’s not our job to protect the NHS

BY Timandra Harkness / 5 mins

The Government’s Covid scaremongering

BY Timandra Harkness / 5 mins

Public trust? There’s no app for that

BY Timandra Harkness / 6 mins

Can our leaders cope with freedom?

BY Timandra Harkness / 3 mins

How Ofqual failed the algorithm test

BY Timandra Harkness / 7 mins

We need a digital right to remain silent

BY Timandra Harkness / 2 mins

Who’s afraid of the big, bad robots?

BY Timandra Harkness / 7 mins

Was the two-metre rule one big lie?

BY Timandra Harkness / 5 mins

It’s worth taking a risk over Covid-19

BY Timandra Harkness / 6 mins

Can your smartphone crack Covid?

BY Timandra Harkness / 8 mins

Who are you calling gullible?

BY Timandra Harkness / 5 mins

Don’t blame Big Tech for society’s problems

BY Timandra Harkness / 6 mins

Voters don’t need protecting from political ads

BY Timandra Harkness / 5 mins

Why life should be a risky business

BY Timandra Harkness / 5 mins

The danger of digital strip searches

BY Timandra Harkness / 5 mins

If you want to get ahead, take a risk

BY Timandra Harkness / 4 mins