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About Arne Hintz

Dr Arne Hintz is Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University and was Principal Investigator on the project "Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society: UK State-Media-Citizen relations after the Snowden leaks". Follow on Twitter: @arne_hz.

Articles by Arne Hintz

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Adam Ramsay is Editor of oD-UK.

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

Technical, geopolitical, or transformative: what future for the Eastern Partnership?
Laure Delcour
'Practical wisdom' and EU integration
Can Büyükbay
Serbia’s choice: EU membership or eastern promises?
Srdja Pavlovic

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

TTIP: we were right all along
Thomas Fazi
TTIP and the right to protect personal data
Keno Franke
What we talk about when we talk about TTIP
Sam Lowe
The great rebranding: how the EU tried to fool us into thinking it has removed ISDS from TTIP
Virginia López Calvo

Expanding state power in times of ‘surveillance realism’: how the UK got a ‘world-leading’ surveillance law

Arne Hintz and Lina Dencik 23 December 2016

A fragmented opposition, public resignation in the face of omnipresent data collection, and a dominant security discourse has created a social context for the Investigatory Powers Act to be passed largely unhindered.