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A shot in the arm, not a shot in the dark
7 steps for Government to clarify whether vaccine passports should have a place in society

Is the goal of antitrust enforcement a competitive digital economy or a different digital ecosystem?
Antitrust ferment and opportunity in digital markets

Governments must offer clarity on vaccine passports
Why it's essential to explore the evidence, risks and benefits of vaccine passports and COVID status apps before any potential roll out

Crowd Clouds
A meditation on people, technology, place and space

Post-Brexit Britain’s dance-off with EU privacy standards in the context of EU-US relations
When privacy protections are aligning at a global level, how will the UK reconcile data protection and digital protectionism?

Season’s greetings: goodbye to 2020 and the 12 months of Ada
Four policy-facing reports, three citizens’ juries, two expert working groups and a global pandemic

America’s ‘privacy renaissance’: What to expect under a new presidency and Congress
A deep dive into US privacy legislation and implications for US-EU-UK relations

Tipping towards trans-nationalism – data, tech and the future of nation states
How data, tech and geopolitics might shape the future

COVID-19, the gig economy and the hunger for surveillance
The hidden, and unfairly distributed, costs of convenience on gig economy workers

Accountability for algorithms: a response to the CDEI review into bias in algorithmic decision-making
Reviewing bias is welcome, and stopping the amplification of historic inequalities is essential.

Reinventing online platforms: is the new EU regulatory package enough?
Without mandatory interoperability, will the Digital Markets Act and Digital Service Act be enough to reset the rules for big tech?

The ethical case for data fiduciaries
Trust, vulnerability and trustworthiness, and ensuring that the interests of big tech are aligned with the interests of their users.