Here’s what happens when you scan one of those ubiquitous two-dimensional black-and-white patterns, and why the FTC urges you to use caution.
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Vaccine passes are easy to fake. Unless venues and businesses make sure to verify them and check the identity of the pass holder, COVID will likely continue to spread.
China has used big data collection systems to keep COVID under control. How the government plans to use these new capabilities in its national surveillance system has many concerned.
Revelations that WA police accessed data from the state’s QR code contact-tracing app threaten to put a serious dent in the public’s trust. And this trust is a crucial element of our COVID defences.
For now, it seems the benefits to Australia’s public health may be better served by other technology. And the public cost of maintaining the COVIDSafe app may not be in our collective interest.
Business and consumers are demanding more data than ever, and the traditional barcode isn’t cutting it any more.
Imagine this: you’re surfing the web while out at lunch. You decide to buy concert tickets, so to save having to put your sandwich down you ask a passer-by to log in to the ticketing website for you. As…
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Information Systems, Curtin University
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Professor of Operations Management, Interim Director of Keele Business School, Keele University
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Director of Complex Human Data Hub and Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Technology and Crime, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow at Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Head of School (Interim), Griffith University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Universität Wien
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Tennessee
