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Instagram's Shop button signals the growing commodification of human interactions on social media.
Manufacturers will increasingly track the products they sell to make recycling them more profitable.
Internet sabbaths and surveillance capitalism in the COVID-era: William Powers on what’s changed since Hamlet’s Blackberry
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Journalist and author William Powers talks with Media Files about taking an internet sabbath, how the media covers tech and what's changed since his book Hamlet’s Blackberry was first published.
The Oculus Quest 2 headset is the latest step in the construction of a 'mirrorworld' built on high-tech surveillance and targeted advertising.
Using less cash means leaving more digital traces of where your money goes - but there are ways to keep some privacy.
Following a privacy policy change in 2016, Google has collected users' data from third-party websites and apps. The ACCC argues users were misled into signing away their privacy.
Tech companies have big plans for augmented reality, but all of them involve huge amounts of surveillance of our everyday lives.
As the pandemic drives more of our lives online, we move further into a world optimised by big tech to suit itself.
Privacy regulation can’t keep pace with the supersystems collecting, analyzing and using personal data.
Once algorithms go live on markets, they start behaving in ways that programmers could not have foreseen.
Regulators are beginning to tackle big tech companies' hidden use of consumer data
Algorithm-based apps can recommend clothes based on what other people have worn, but they have a long way to go before they understand fashion.
An entire industry exists to trade on your personal data - everything from your shopping habits to your political views and medical conditions. The results can genuinely harm consumers.
Companies scrutinise our online likes, dislikes, searches and purchases to produce data that can be used commercially. And it's often done without us understanding the full extent of the surveillance.
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UNSW, and Academic Lead, UNSW Grand Challenge on Trust, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, SOAR Fellow., University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Communication, Deakin University
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Senior research fellow, Edith Cowan University
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Chancellors Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fashion and Textiles Designer, University of Technology Sydney
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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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Assistant Professor of Computing, Coventry University
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Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
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Director, Surveillance Studies Centre, Professor of Sociology, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Economic Sociology and Social Theory, Copenhagen Business School
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Digital Economist, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor, School of Strategy and Leadership, Coventry University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media and Communication, University of Westminster
