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There are three key steps people can take to protect their data from big tech.
The decision underscores the importance of strengthening privacy laws and enforcement powers of regulators.
As the federal government prepares to reform Australia’s privacy laws, it needs to better protect brain data.
Privacy comes at a price.
OpenAI has said it will take down the ChatGPT voice of Sky, which left Scarlett Johansson in ‘disbelief’. The actor previously played the role of an AI in the 2013 film Her.
A new ACCC report shows 74% of Australians are uncomfortable with their personal data being shared or sold. Yet this is happening every day, and the privacy law isn’t being enforced.
Wearables are on the rise, including a new category: neurotechnology. A headband that can track your brain activity sounds fun, but the data it collects should be stringently protected.
Even those who seek out the spotlight have a legal right to privacy.
Many people have become resigned to the fact that tech companies collect our private data. But policymakers must do more to limit the amount of personal information corporations can collect.
When schools ask student-athletes about their menstrual cycles, they may be infringing on anti-discrimination and privacy laws.
ChatGPT is fuelled by our intimate online histories. It’s trained on 300 billion words, yet users have no way of knowing which of their data it contains.
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?
Data collection is big business in the US, but a bipartisan data privacy bill rapidly moving through Congress promises to affect the information websites, social media platforms and all other businesses collect.
Private companies and public authorities are beginning to implement facial recognition technology, even without rules to govern what they can do.
The Supreme Court has found protections for people’s privacy in several constitutional amendments – and used it as a basis for some pretty fundamental protections.
Australia’s consumer advocacy group Choice identified three Australian retailers who use facial recognition to identify consumers. What are the privacy concerns?
Both Macron and Madonna have expressed concerns about genetic privacy. As DNA collection and sequencing becomes increasingly commonplace, what may seem paranoid may instead be prescient.
The laws about cookies are fairly clear in EU and UK, but many big companies are breaking them anyway.
How the UK Court of Appeal reached its decision.
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Professor specialising in Internet law, Bond University
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice; Lead, UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative, UNSW Sydney
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Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, Indiana University
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Associate Professor in Law, Monash University
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PhD Law Candidate, University of New England
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Assistant Professor of Information; Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
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Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
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Professor of Law and Information Systems, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
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Professor in Media and Communication, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of law and ethics, Georgia State University
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Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
