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Digital Britain

May 2024

  • Elle Hunt

    Rubbish music, chatbots and online queues: welcome to your life lived on hold

    Elle Hunt
    Last year British taxpayers spent 800 years waiting to speak to HMRC. This is the price of a world digitised on the cheap, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt

March 2024

  • Child using a laptop.

    Nearly half of UK families excluded from modern digital society, study finds

    Exclusive: Lack of online skills and access creates digital divide that amplifies other exclusions, says report

  • The Guardian documentary
    The Digital Divide: could you live without the internet?

    This film is voiced by three individuals experiencing digital exclusion, revealing how varied and complex the repercussions can be. Through enacted scenes from their lives, it makes visible the expanding digital divide – an issue too often unseen or ignored
  • Could you live without the internet? Doctors’ appointments, job applications, personal banking, key services and more are today mostly managed online. While the UK government details its plans for a digital future to transform public services, one in seven Britons are forced to live without the internet. This film is voiced by three individuals experiencing digital exclusion, revealing how varied and complex the repercussions can be.

    The Guardian documentary
    The Digital Divide: could you live without the internet?

    Could you live without the internet? Doctors’ appointments, job applications, personal banking, key services and more are today mostly managed online. While the UK government details its plans for a digital future to transform public services, one in seven Britons are forced to live without the internet. This film is voiced by three individuals experiencing digital exclusion, revealing how varied and complex the repercussions can be.

January 2024

  • Child's hand typing on a laptop

    UK parents worried about screens, but children say they now feel safer online

    Internet Matters says survey shows rise in children’s ‘positive developmental, emotional and social experiences’

November 2022

  • The neonatal intensive care unit at Burnley General hospital, Lancashire

    Controversial £360m NHS England data platform ‘lined up’ for Trump backer’s firm

    Patients will have no say over records going to Palantir, the software giant run by billionaire Republican backer

July 2021

  • Facial recognition technology could help tell children from adults.

    Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet?

    Determining a person’s age online seems like an intractable problem. But new technology and laws could be on the brink of solving it

August 2020

  • Bernard Stiegler in 2007

    Bernard Stiegler obituary

    French philosopher who denounced the tyranny of digital technology

June 2020

  • ‘We are here to be taken seriously’ … a glossy promo vision of Boho X, with a view of the Tees transporter bridge.

    The Teesside Silicon Valley: Middlesbrough's £250m bid to be digital powerhouse

    Shiny skyscrapers, rooftop ping-pong, a wellbeing village and an urban farm … Middlesbrough’s mayor wants to make his town a tech dream. Why are so many people horrified?

May 2020

  • A sign in the Isle of Wight urging residents to download the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app.

    Millions risk being locked out of Covid-19 contact tracing app

    Many people in Britain lack internet access and sufficient tech skills, charities warn MPs

April 2020

  • A woman checks her mobile phone as she walks past a mural depicting a man wearing a face mask as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Sale<br>A woman checks her mobile phone as she walks past a mural depicting a man wearing a face mask,as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Sale, Britain, April 11, 2020. REUTERS/Phil Noble

    Human rights in focus
    Digital divide 'isolates and endangers' millions of UK's poorest

  • Ministry of Justice signage, London

    Court hearings via video 'risk unfairness for disabled people'

August 2019

  • The UK has the largest data centre market in Europe worth more than £73bn.

    No-deal Brexit will ‘instantly disrupt’ UK’s role as £174bn global data hub

    University College London report warns of significant legal, economic and social disruption

July 2019

  • Arron Banks, co-founder of the Leave.EU campaign, walks past anti-Brexit protesters outside the Houses of Parliament

    Leave.EU may keep name after no-deal Brexit if ownership handed to EU citizen

    UK-based owners of .eu domains could use transfer loophole to keep name

June 2019

  • A Deliveroo courier on a bike at night

    Gig economy in Britain doubles, accounting for 4.7 million workers

    TUC finds worker rights fading as gig platforms proliferate to employ one in 10 adults

March 2019

  • michael seres bowel transplant patient

    Public sector digital transformation
    'I'd share any data to stay alive longer': the progress of digital public services

  • Fibre optic cables

    Spring statement policies look to Brexit and a hi-tech future

July 2018

  • The signature close up and fountain pen.

    Pass notes
    The handwriting’s on the wall: is this the end of the signature?

    Research shows that more than half of adults rarely sign their names and increasingly signatures are just scrawled on digital devices

April 2018

  • Clocks

    The Guardian view on analogue clocks: their time has not run out

    Editorial: Reports of teenagers struggling with old-fashioned timekeeping highlight the importance of a skill that is still relevant in the digital age

March 2018

  • Old Bailey Statue of Lady Justice. Central Criminal Court, London

    Public servant: my letter to the public
    Video evidence is taking over – and damaging the credibility of our courts

    Anonymous
    The technology has become widespread in the UK. But it is notoriously unreliable – and the testimonies can be misleading
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