The terms of the Australian Privacy Principle 3.6 are quite clear. So why is there not a single published case of this law being enforced?
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A privacy researcher found a ‘code injection’ that allows Instagram and Facebook to collect sensitive user data, including passwords and credit card details.
It’s the biggest monopolisation case since a 1998 lawsuit against Microsoft. But it may be several years before a settlement of any kind is reached.
While some online services such as banking do warrant using your true information, many sites shouldn’t require the same level of disclosure. Here’s how to protect yourself in such cases.
Websites are trying to get around GDPR rules on giving you control over your data.
If we want My Health Record data to be made available for medical research we need to make it opt in, not opt out. We’ll have a smaller dataset, but at least it will be ethically defensible.
Something good could come from the Cambridge Analytica scandal if we used the same data to fix society, rather than profit from it.
Will GDPR usher in a fresh start for the internet? A look at the four main foundation elements and how they affect you.
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Professionalism, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor of Information Systems, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor of Contemporary Philosophy and Literature, Brunel University London
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Senior Research Officer, University of Essex
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
