There are a number of ‘directories’ or ‘rankings’ of governmental approaches to civil society privacy, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression online. While these can be useful […]

Sequential data model useful information about individuals, such as their visited locations, purchased products, or genomic information. Thus, sequential data are often collected from individuals and […]

This project will investigate the role of alternative online subcultures in the promotion of violence, through a data-driven comparative analysis of content across several (Chan) platforms. […]

Current research efforts on online harms (abuse, hate, dis/misinformation, cyberbullying, revenge pornography, etc.) have focused on examining single platforms (e.g., Twitter or Facebook) and/or isolating known […]

With the widespread use of resource-constrained devices such as RFID sensors, IoT, etc. the area of lightweight cryptography has become increasingly important. For evidence we can […]

The aim of this project is to create the building blocks for AI-based systems to be able to learn and reason about the privacy norms users […]

While violent crime and theft has been decreasing since the mid-90’s, fraud has now become the most common type of crime in the UK at 3.7 […]

Personality information can be used as part of adversarial manipulation of an individual, making them more vulnerable to attacks on their reasoning process – whether the […]

Several strategies are routinely used by social media companies, governments, and online communities to mitigate online harms. These include setting community standards, removing content that violates […]

The aim will be to investigate how effectively and efficiently anonymous communication networks (ACN) can act as “add-ons” between applications that do not have privacy built-in […]

A philosophical analysis of online manipulation on social media platforms focusing on the disruption of democratic processes. One of the most interesting phenomena in current international […]

This empirical project aims to analyse the roles of PETs, from both legal and regulatory perspectives, in protecting fundamental rights and freedoms, such as data protection […]

The act of engaging with digital services and devices is often considered a sub-component of online harm. Specifically, a considerable body of work has observed associations […]

A key challenge for the mitigation of online harms is the need to identify the ways in which regulators, practitioners and researchers can have joint understandings […]

Our aim is to inform users of the value of their data. We envision a system where instead of simply asking for permission from a user […]

Exploring online extremism and its effects offline by looking at recruitment tools, a survey of intervention tools to combat radicalization, and the impact on free speech […]

This project will provide transparency tools for AI-based systems to explain how they manage users’ data and co-create interfaces that allow users to influence it. The […]

Exploring users experiences and concepts of privacy and online harms with respect to VR avatars. The ways in which social behaviour and self-presentation is experienced online […]

Understanding the role of contexts in managing privacy online through AI-agents. In online social systems, users are allowed to create and share content about themselves and […]

A decade of unprecedented growth in the field of personal data collection and analysis, as well as the increased ‘datification’ of ordinary life, has lead to […]

A multimodal machine learning based study of medical misinformation on social networks. Medical misinformation, popular science and alternative medicine thrives online in social networks where communities […]

A dedicated speculative space for citizens and publics to liaise with researchers, technologists and policy makers, to explore new technologies and data services, informing policy/practice guidelines […]

This project will investigate the use of formal methods in providing high-assurance, high-performance privacy-preserving data analytics solutions, and in ensuring their secure use. In particular, we […]

This project will analyse the current (and future potential) abuse of commercially available PETs for criminal purposes, using specific online harms as primary case examples, and […]

This project aims to investigate consumer perspectives on the use and sharing of PETs-related data by various types of ‘legitimate’ organisations. In particular, it will explore […]