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School officials are becoming increasingly wary of TikTok amid concerns that the app poses a risk to student safety and privacy and makes the nation vulnerable to spies.
Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis admits his intelligence agency surveilled journalists but denies using illegal Predator software on them.
The story of a Dutch double agent who spied on the Stasi. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
A double agent who operated for the CIA and the Dutch security service against the Stasi tells his story for the first time.
Scientific research done through international collaboration has boomed in the past 30 years. But recently, powerful countries are using science as a tool of politics, threatening that work.
Women taking precautions to conceal their identities while seeking reproductive advice is akin to spies using tradecraft to avoid enemy agents.
As war begins between Ukraine and Russia, a range of stories provides context to help readers understand the conflict.
Once again allegations have surfaced that the former US president was a Russian ‘asset’. Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean he was their agent.
Amid increasingly sophisticated ploys online, it can be difficult to tell the difference between innocent social networking and a national security offence.
The lawyer and his client, Witness K, are accused of disclosing information related to a covert ASIS spying operation. These are the legal issues that are likely to be raised at trial.
Mike Burgess, the head of ASIO, warns there are more foreign agents operating in Australia than at the height of the cold war - and many of them have the capability, intent, and persistence to cause significant harm.
The US government wants to seize all the proceeds from Snowden’s new memoir.
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.
If left unchecked, invasions of privacy enabled by technology could put every human right at risk, and on a scale that would be truly terrifying.
Intelligence officials in many countries are concerned the company could be helping the Chinese government spy on companies, military units and government agencies.
Durham University student Matthew Hedges has been jailed for life for ‘spying’ in UAE.
Underage police informants can’t necessarily be trusted to provide accurate information, so why compromise their safety?
Prosecuting whistleblowers has the potential to further shake public confidence in Australia’s criminal justice system.
Targeting Witness K and his lawyer in the Timor-Leste bugging case shows a government increasingly hostile to the media.
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University London
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Digital Society, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Lecturer, Cyberintelligence and Cybercrime Investigations, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Research Fellow, Leiden University
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Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Oklahoma
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Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway University of London
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Lecturer in Intelligence Studies, Macquarie University
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Associate professor of international history, Utrecht University
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Professor of Television Journalism, City, University of London
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
