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When social media platforms banned Donald Trump they acknowledged that sometimes social good is more important than shareholder profits.
Google is using artificial intelligence to collect and process user data in a way that produces more nuanced and detailed information about our activities but addresses privacy concerns.
Search engines, like social media algorithms, get you to click on links by learning what other people click on. Enticing misinformation often comes out on top.
It is morally unjustifiable for tech companies to walk away from the pandemic with massive profits while schools are burdened with debt.
Google’s shift to ‘profiling’ is being billed as a privacy boon – but it’s also a strategic pivot.
Local newspapers are a key part of the ecology of journalism.
Cable providers like Comcast carry Fox News and other channels that feed conspiracy theories and lies into Americans’ homes.
Companies today collect vast amounts of our personal data. What measures can governments and regulators take to reduce the inherent risks and keep our data?
Google, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter have all agreed to a voluntary code of conduct targeting misinformation. But the only real commitment is to appear as though they’re taking action.
Compromises were reached and reputations suffered. Who ultimately won the social media showdown?
It enjoys huge network effects that lock users in. Google does not.
Most of the attention on the code has been on the larger media outlets. But the sustainability of small publishers is what should be of most concern.
Our relationship with Facebook, Google and news is a classic case of the prisoner’s dilemma. Cooperation may be the only way to get the best outcome.
How you can gauge investors’ sleepiness by using Google search data.
The timing of Google’s deals raises questions, coming just as the News Media Bargaining Code is set to be introduced into federal parliament.
Bluetooth wireless communication makes it possible to track when people have been exposed to people infected with the coronavirus. The right cryptography scheme keeps alerts about exposures private.
Sophisticated fake social media personas created by North Korean hackers offered to collaborate with cybersecurity researchers. Several US researchers fell for it.
It may have seemed the platforms were taking a confident stance by appealing to Australian users directly. But really, it was a delayed and panic-based reaction.
If this is just one experiment among of tens of thousands, as Google has admitted, in what other ways might users have been manipulated in the past?
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. Previously, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Associate professor of regulation and governance, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Management and Innovation, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
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Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney
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Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
