Modern Issues

Modern issues holds the questions whose analysis is new, not only their setting. This topic covers artificial intelligence, digital work and freelancing, gaming and virtual goods, social media and privacy, and environment and sustainability. Readers ask what a platform does with their data, how a freelance contract works, and what an in-game purchase is. A familiar question asked on a new device usually sits with the familiar subject instead. Every answer here is a sourced summary of a fatwa.