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Knowing you should set your apps’ privacy permissions might not be enough to protect you. A cybersecurity expert explains how complicated privacy settings can trip you up.
A risk-based approach to regulating AI can help minimise the dangers of the new technology
Privacy comes at a price.
The new scheme, called the Trust Exchange (TEx), would allow people to verify their identities based on information already held by the federal government.
Open-source AI models promise a more democratic and transparent future. They can also be open to misuse – and ethical concerns remain.
Parents and governments are already concerned about children’s safety online – as part of this we need to look more closely at how students’ images are being used by schools.
Human Rights Watch has sounded the alarm over Australian children’s images found in a huge data set used to train AI models. It could be a breach of our privacy law.
When Apple finally unveiled its AI strategy at its developers’ conference, Elon Musk and privacy activists began raising alarm bells.
There are various methods for estimating or verifying an online user’s age, none of them foolproof. Importantly, is this the social media future we want?
It feels like a data breach is in the news every single week. Here’s why you should guard your personal information more jealously than ever.
Police can reconstruct someone’s movements for days or weeks at a time, without any court oversight.
A data privacy expert explains how machine learning algorithms draw inferences and how that leads to privacy concerns.
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.
Existing regulations do not go far enough in protecting people’s information from being collected and shared when they visit websites.
Brain-computer interfaces may present threats to cognitive liberty. But with or without them, we often overestimate how independent our own minds are, an ethicist writes.
If it can happen to a future queen, it can happen to you. Maybe it already has.
Private tech companies are increasingly being used to delivery public funds to vulnerable people – and facilitate the government’s hostile environment policies.
About 26 per cent of Canadians use TikTok. Regulating the app in Canada might be a better approach to avoiding external political influence.
A focus on sporting success can compromise children’s wellbeing and safety.
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice; Lead, UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
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Professor specialising in Internet law, Bond University
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Digital Society, University of Glasgow
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Research Director of the Security and Surveillance Research group; Professor, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Data protection and surveillance stream lead, Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation, UNSW Law Faculty, UNSW Sydney
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Research engineer, Advanced Surveillance Project, Data61
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Professor of Cyber Security and Policy, Tufts University
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Senior Researcher and Project Manager, Advanced Surveillance Project, Data61
