Smart devices and sensors can now gauge mood and attention, effectively engaging in mind-reading. This intimate data collection raises questions about who has access and control of it.
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Facial recognition technologies have become more popular through increasingly sophisticated devices and popular fads. Casual use of face scanning and analysis features has long-term social impacts.
Police forces around the world, including in Australia, are using facial recognition apps to identify persons of interest on the spot. The public, while wary, are generally supportive.
The commitment applies to the social network, but not necessarily to the metaverse.
Several schools in Scotland have paused the rollout of facial recognition technology in school canteens following inquiries from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
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.
Home quarantine apps face serious privacy, security and bias issues. Home detention ankle tags might be a better option.
Politicians of all stripes, computer professionals and even big-tech executives are calling on government to hit the brakes on using these algorithms. The feds are hitting the gas.
The potential failure of the U.S. military to protect information that can identify Afghan citizens raises questions about whether and how biometric data should be collected in war zones.
Police, private security and sporting events are turning to a growing but largely unregulated industry that claims its technology can detect suspicious individuals.
COVID-19 vaccine passports are being presented as a relatively simple technological solution to our current travel woes. But meaningful public debate about their merits and problems is essential.
Even though they cover most of our features, face masks are no match for our highly-evolved capacity to recognise friends.
Interviews with students, tutors, tech workers and university administrators reveal the problems with online exam monitoring systems — but also show they’re unlikely to go away.
The CCTV ecosystem is evolving – but it's still a sparse patchwork with limited efficacy in reducing or prosecuting crime.
Wearing face masks hides our facial expressions and affects our social interactions. They make it harder for us to read facial expressions and can contribute to racist perceptions.
By letting machines recommend movies and decide whom to hire, humans are losing their unpredictable nature – and possibly the ability to make everyday judgments, as well.
Innovative border control technologies may be great for governments cracking down on migration — but they could further disadvantage groups that are already vulnerable.
Facial recognition, social media and location tracking give law enforcement a leg up in a monumental investigation.
We have unwittingly volunteered our faces in social media posts and photos stored in the cloud. But we’ve yet to determine who owns the data associated with the contours of our faces.
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Research Director of the Security and Surveillance Research group; Professor, The University of Queensland
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Senior Researcher and Project Manager, Advanced Surveillance Project, Data61
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Research engineer, Advanced Surveillance Project, Data61
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Scientia Fellow, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, University of Lincoln
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Media Arts and Technology, Solent University
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Francince McNiff Professor of criminal jurisprudence, Monash University
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Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow, UNSW
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Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
