With data-sharing enabling everything from smarter cities to more sinister surveillance, the public debate around privacy is becoming increasingly complex. Canvas8 spoke to Alisa Frik, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, to understand how people are weighing up the pay-offs.

Netflix’s The Social Dilemma repeats familiar critiques of Big Tech’s surveillance-fuelled, behaviour-shaping business model. But by bringing an elegant yet alarmist version of the story to its vast subscriber base, it's helping the surveillance conversation to break into mainstream consciousness.

The tech world may play a major role in tackling the COVID-19 crisis, with tracing apps potentially limiting the spread of the virus within communities. But will privacy fears hinder these efforts? Canvas8 spoke to eight Americans about sharing health and location data during the pandemic.

TikTok has announced a 'bug bounty program’ that invites hackers around the world to identify where the platform is technologically vulnerable. As people become more skeptical about what happens BTS at big tech companies, campaigns that communicate transparency can build consumer trust.