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Cyber-scams tend to ramp up at this time of year, with criminals and scammers eager to exploit people’s generosity and excitement.
Why it’s so much easier to sign up to a service than it is to leave.
There’s little transparency surrounding how insurance firms collect, analyse and use our personal data when they establish insurance costs.
Growing up on the internet can bring consequences into adulthood.
Our research provides the first comprehensive picture of long-term trends in online diversity, drawing on a dataset that’s four times as large as the original Hubble Space Telescope data.
More than 500 million people’s details were compromised. The records include various combinations of name, email, gender, date of birth, location, relationship status and employer.
The web’s inventor believes the liberation of our data will help redistribute power on the internet.
While internet penetration is increasing in Nigeria, State Houses of Assembly have little or no online presence, this ought to change.
Internet sabbaths and surveillance capitalism in the COVID-era: William Powers on what’s changed since Hamlet’s Blackberry
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Journalist and author William Powers talks with Media Files about taking an internet sabbath, how the media covers tech and what's changed since his book Hamlet’s Blackberry was first published.
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.
Telstra and Optus have already made arrangements to support customers with extra, free data during the COVID-19 pandemic. But what is the NBN doing?
The Minister for Government Services has announced a two-year roadmap to supposedly propel e-government. But the plans, part of a larger strategy, are considerably lacking substance.
Most of us are probably having our data tracked in some form. And while there are regulatory safeguards in place to protect user privacy, it’s hard to say whether these are enough.
A recent leakware attack targeting Johannesburg was the second of its kind ever recorded. Hackers demanded A$52,663 worth of bitcoins, in return for not releasing senstivie civilian information.
A tiny percentage of museums’ natural history holdings are on display. Very little of these vast archives is digitized and available online. But museums are working to change that.
Data scientists mapped the online behavior of Facebook users in Brazil, the US and Argentina. The result is a startling visual portrayal of just how deeply polarized these nations have become.
An online medical appointment booking organisation was sharing personal information about the users of their platform with a plaintiff law firm.
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Professor of Public Policy, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
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Professor of Information Systems, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
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Professor of Paleontology and Director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
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Sessional Academic, Solicitor, Macquarie University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor in Behavioral Data Science, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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