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Category: Ethics
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Why Your Online Privacy Needs You to Try the Tor Browser (Even Occasionally)
Every click, search, and piece of data is tracked online. Tor lets you step outside surveillance, protect your privacy, and experience a glimpse of the internet without monitoring—even if only for a short session.
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The Antitrust Fine Paradox
Who Benefits When Big Tech Gets Fined? When the European Union imposed a €2.95 billion fine on Google for abusing its advertising dominance on September 5, 2025, many observers described the decision as a significant win for competition (European Commission, 2025). Yet a central question remains: who actually benefits when governments fine corporations for anticompetitive…
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The Coming Reality of Mandatory Digital ID
As a lifelong fan of science fiction, I always hoped humanity would draw wisdom from its darkest stories. Instead, I find myself watching the bleakest visions of Orwell, Dick, and Black Mirror being sketched into reality. Mandatory digital ID systems—once the stuff of dystopian imagination—are now being piloted and promoted by governments, corporations, and international…
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Billionaires, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy
It’s become almost routine: news stories about billionaires growing their fortunes while wages stagnate, public services erode, and democracies falter. While it’s easy to point fingers at individuals, Elon Musk’s antics, Jeff Bezos’s warehouse policies, the political donations of Charles Koch, or the global health campaigns of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, the real…
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The Global Rise of Workplace Surveillance: How Much Is Too Much?
In the digital age, workplace surveillance has become a widespread and often controversial feature of modern employment. From keystroke trackers to facial recognition, companies are increasingly monitoring employees to boost productivity, ensure compliance, and manage remote teams. But how common is this practice, and how is it regulated across different parts of the world? Recent…
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The Currency of the Information Age Is Currency — But Not the Kind You Think
In the digital age, it’s easy to believe we’re getting something for nothing. We scroll through social media, send messages, store files, and search the web — all “for free.” But most services aren’t powered by goodwill. They’re funded by a new kind of currency: information. When we say “data is the new oil,” we…