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The Bank of Canada is proposing a federally managed digital currency that flies in the face of the decentralized approach to money that cryptocurrencies have established.
‘Smart cities’, featuring networks of automatic lights, video cameras and environmental sensors, have been hailed as an enhancement to urban life. But they are also tools of surveillance and control.
Amazon says it’s the “new neighbourhood watch” but Ring may just be another technology that gives police too much data and lets neighbourhoods double down on their biases.
Hey Alexa, who are you sharing my data with?
Rather than helping and providing new unbiased tools for policing, police surveillance technologies tend to be reactionary and biased.
30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, covert surveillance images offer us an unparalleled look at the lives of people trying to escape from the east to the west.
An anthropologist who interviewed Uighurs in China found different ways in which Chinese authorities used checkpoints, social media and smartphones to identify, categorize and control this group.
A new book takes apart Australia’s recent move towards a more secret state, and the implications it might have for the health of our democracy.
Surveillance software that identifies people from CCTV is eroding human rights and democracy.
Researchers examined how youth on three continents think about digital technology today and conducted an experiment to learn what youth said after living without their phones for a week.
Those money-saving black boxes reveal a lot about the rules that govern our lives.
Ever more Americans are using digital cameras to keep an eye on elderly relatives who live in nursing homes. This surveillance may violate patients’ privacy and demoralize their caretakers.
If you thought police surveillance was mere CCTV, it’s time to catch up on what’s happening on the other side of the lens.
ParentsNext requires places like libraries and public pools to monitor parents’ attendance at activities. This undermines their role as spaces of inclusion and support.
In the year 1984, there was self-congratulatory coverage that the dystopia of the novel had not been realized. However, an expert argues that the technologies described in the novel are here and watching us.
Campaigners in the UK are pushing to protect privacy and make the security services more accountable.
South Africa’s law that regulates the Interception of communications is being challenged on the basis it can be abused by rogue elements in intelligence.
King was once thought of as a saint beyond reproach. It eventually emerged that he was a womanizer. But we now have to ask the unthinkable: Did King enable abuse?
Darwin is one of the aspiring ‘smart cities’ that is adopting Chinese technology that can identify and track individuals. Add changes in Australian law, and we have the makings of a surveillance state.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research Director of the Security and Surveillance Research group; Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Digital Society, University of Glasgow
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Senior Researcher and Project Manager, Advanced Surveillance Project, Data61
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Research engineer, Advanced Surveillance Project, Data61
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Senior Lecturer in Technology, The Open University
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Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
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Professor of Global Legal Studies, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in Technology and Crime, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Tasmania
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Professor and Director, Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy, University of Stirling
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
