Amazon says it's the "new neighbourhood watch" but Ring may just be another technology that gives police too much data and lets neighbourhoods double down on their biases.
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Hey Alexa, who are you sharing my data with?
Rather than helping and providing new unbiased tools for policing, police surveillance technologies tend to be reactionary and biased.
30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, covert surveillance images offer us an unparalleled look at the lives of people trying to escape from the east to the west.
An anthropologist who interviewed Uighurs in China found different ways in which Chinese authorities used checkpoints, social media and smartphones to identify, categorize and control this group.
A new book takes apart Australia's recent move towards a more secret state, and the implications it might have for the health of our democracy.
Surveillance software that identifies people from CCTV is eroding human rights and democracy.
Researchers examined how youth on three continents think about digital technology today and conducted an experiment to learn what youth said after living without their phones for a week.
Those money-saving black boxes reveal a lot about the rules that govern our lives.
Ever more Americans are using digital cameras to keep an eye on elderly relatives who live in nursing homes. This surveillance may violate patients' privacy and demoralize their caretakers.
If you thought police surveillance was mere CCTV, it's time to catch up on what's happening on the other side of the lens.
ParentsNext requires places like libraries and public pools to monitor parents' attendance at activities. This undermines their role as spaces of inclusion and support.
In the year 1984, there was self-congratulatory coverage that the dystopia of the novel had not been realized. However, an expert argues that the technologies described in the novel are here and watching us.
Campaigners in the UK are pushing to protect privacy and make the security services more accountable.
South Africa's law that regulates the Interception of communications is being challenged on the basis it can be abused by rogue elements in intelligence.
King was once thought of as a saint beyond reproach. It eventually emerged that he was a womanizer. But we now have to ask the unthinkable: Did King enable abuse?
Darwin is one of the aspiring 'smart cities' that is adopting Chinese technology that can identify and track individuals. Add changes in Australian law, and we have the makings of a surveillance state.
Apps these days allow parents to track their children. An expert explains, why these technologies should be a reason for worry if you are a parent,
These days surveillance isn't just CCTV. Police now have access to body cams, drones and facial recognition systems – and it's helping police not only solve crime, but prevent it too.
Even governments in democracies with strong traditions of rule of law find themselves tempted to abuse these new abilities.
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research Director of the Security and Surveillance Research group; Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Researcher and Project Manager, Advanced Surveillance Project, Data61
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Research engineer, Advanced Surveillance Project, Data61
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Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Technology, The Open University
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Professor of Global Legal Studies, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Tasmania
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Honorary Lecturer in Sociology, Australian National University
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Professor and Director, Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy, University of Stirling
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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Media Specialist, Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer, Australian National University
