Paul Bernal
Paul Bernal is Associate Professor in Law at the University of East Anglia, UK, and the author of The Internet, Warts and All: Free Speech, Privacy and Truth (Cambridge University Press). He tweets at: @PaulbernalUK
Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Friday, September 25, 2020 12:09 - 2 Comments
Analysis | Should you use the UK Government’s new Coronavirus Contact Tracing App? Well…
The UK Government's new Covid-19 contact-tracing app for England and Wales is a marked improvement on its dismal earlier attempt, but should you use it? It's complicated, writes Paul Bernal.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, May 29, 2020 10:47 - 3 Comments
Comment | Why it’s your civic duty not to download the UK’s contact tracing app
Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson are trying to persuade us that it’s our civic duty to take part in their Covid-19 ‘test and track’ programme. But their approach - based on secrecy, exceptionalism and deception - means our civic duty may well be to resist the programme actively, argues Paul Bernal.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 17:43 - 1 Comment
Analysis | The BBC cannot fight ‘fake news’ if it’s part of the problem
The failure of much of the British media, and the BBC in particular, to understand, or at least acknowledge, their role in the spreading of fake news, is potentially disastrous for our political future, writes Paul Bernal.
