Digital privacy risks encompass the technical, behavioral, and economic mechanisms through which personal data are collected, monetized, and exploited across smartphones, social media, IoT devices, and online services. Work in this area examines surveillance-based business models, opaque data practices in apps and platforms, and the growing use of AI to scale and personalize scams, fraud, and manipulation. It also investigates human factors such as multitasking, device dependence, and demographic vulnerabilities, alongside interventions for fraud prevention, privacy protection, and safer technology use.
Internet
A QUT study of 20 popular paid and free apps for children aged 5 to 8 years found that most contained deceptive design patterns aimed at attracting children to paid content, increasing their time spent using the app, or encouraging ...
Mar 31, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Amid hot discussion on screen time, social media use and the impact of digital devices on our well-being, a seven-month study from Aalto University in Finland sheds new light on what overwhelms users the most—and the results ...
Mar 24, 2026
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Security
Research in the journal Electronic Government discusses the growing need for protecting one's personal financial data as the online world faces increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. The researchers argue that no single ...
Mar 18, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Alternative phones on offer at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) telecoms trade show in Barcelona this week aim to answer demand for devices that protect users' data and attention.
Mar 4, 2026
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Security
Across Africa, governments are introducing digital systems that use individuals' unique physical measurements to identify them. These systems collect citizens' biometric and personal data and use it to give people access ...
Mar 2, 2026
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Internet
A new study examining digital behavior in Taiwan suggests that simply having internet access is no longer enough to ensure digital inclusion—a finding with growing implications for the United States as governments, schools, ...
Feb 26, 2026
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Internet
Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes.
Feb 21, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Fully customizable virtual companions or avatars—and even "digital clones" of deceased people or living ex-partners—are among the new possibilities that artificial intelligence is bringing to the love lives of humans. But ...
Feb 16, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Alarm clocks, maps, books, flashlights, watches, radios, MP3 players, Palm Pilots, remote controls, cameras, handheld recorders and other devices have all been gradually absorbed into a single one: the smartphone.
Feb 14, 2026
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Business
AI can help displaced people avoid exploitation, but humans must call the shots, warn experts. For Susan Achiech, life began in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp, where her South Sudanese parents fled to for safety in the early ...
Jan 29, 2026
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