Three reasons there needs to be a crackdown on the ‘online wild west’The Cambridge Analytica scandal has rightly shocked people all over the world. The possibility that our personal information may have been ‘harvested’ for political gain, entirely without our knowledge, has made us fearful. As is...Posted 23 Mar 2018
What Cambridge Analytica tells us about our out-dated campaign lawsOnline campaigning is the 21st century’s wild west – and the Cambridge Analytica saga is a very stark reminder that we have to conquer the new terrain. The main legislation regulating political parties’ campaigning...Posted 22 Mar 2018
Online campaigning is a wild west – it’s time we knew what parties were up toIf 2015 was the digital election, this one is more specifically the Facebook election. With the big money rolling into the social media giant from parties – Labour and the Conservatives are planning to spend a million pounds...Posted 30 May 2017