The artificial intelligence boom means a multi-trillion dollar industry is coming into existence before our eyes. With great opportunity come great risks, as two important new Australian reports show.
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Meta now faces some A$4 billion in fines related to breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations.
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.
Social media and publishing platform users have generated vast amounts of data. This data remains online long after people have stopped using the platforms, and can impact people’s lives.
While the EU’s ground-breaking legislation to regulate “digital gatekeepers” has its flaws, it could rein in big tech and significantly change how it operates in Europe – and perhaps the world.
Mobile apps are sometimes ‘regionalized’ to better serve the needs of users, functioning differently in, for example, China than in Canada. But some of those differences pose security and privacy risks.
The laws about cookies are fairly clear in EU and UK, but many big companies are breaking them anyway.
Social media firms in Europe are well on the way to a thousand cuts.
Mass data collection and surveillance have become ubiquitous. For marginalized communities, the stakes of having their privacy violated are high.
Once analysts gain access to our private data, they can use that information to influence and alter our behaviour and choices. If you’re marginalized in some way, the consequences are worse.
A proposed online privacy code would give consumers more control over how tech companies collect and use their data
Ireland is under pressure to investigate, and potentially fine, Facebook for alleged data breaches under GDPR.
Accessing India’s digital consumers is seen as the key to future growth for big tech companies like Facebook.
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.
At the end of the 1925 movie ‘Red Kimono,’ the protagonist, Gabrielle Darley, throws away her garment and moves on to a better life. Real life is more complicated.
Our newfound ability to reincarnate the dead as chatbots presents several legal and ethical dilemmas.
Ransomware is quietly developing into one of the most disruptive – and lucrative – forms of cybercrime.
In the current pandemic, finding the right balance between the protection of public health and respecting civil liberties has proven to be supremely difficult.
Many businesses struggle with data security, but the new Privacy Act means they will have to make protecting customers’ personal information a priority.
Banning the Chinese-owned social media platforms raises free speech concerns and could worsen the US-China trade war.
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Professeur de Droit. co-Director of the MSc in Health Management & Data Intelligence. Droit international des affaires, Business and Compliance. Health management, EM Lyon Business School
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Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Guelph
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Professor of Law and Information Systems, UNSW Sydney
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Docteur en droit international, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France
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Professor of Distributed Systems & Chair in Applied Data Sciences, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer, Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University
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Senior Research Fellow, College of Art & Design and Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University
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Departmental Lecturer in International Political Economy, University of Oxford
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Research Lead, Jeff Bleich Centre for the US Alliance in Digital Technology, Security, and Governance, Flinders University
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Associate Professor in Law, Monash University
