The vast majority of people alive today are subject to tracking through a number of overlapping and entrenched surveillance systems.
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The study showed couch patrolling was more common than foot patrols - with social media influencing fears and suspicions.
Innovative border control technologies may be great for governments cracking down on migration — but they could further disadvantage groups that are already vulnerable.
Avoiding drones’ prying eyes can be as complicated as donning a high-tech hoodie and as simple as ducking under a tree.
The COVIDSafe app hasn’t come out of nowhere. The promises of ‘smart city’ data collection may be seductive, but we must always weigh up what we’re being asked to give up in return.
Surveillance software that identifies people from CCTV is eroding human rights and democracy.
Even governments in democracies with strong traditions of rule of law find themselves tempted to abuse these new abilities.
Health and demographic surveillance systems are important to understand people and the societies that they live in.
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Associate Professor of Urban Geography and Research Lead, Sydney Policy Lab, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Law, University of Strathclyde
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Reader in Population and Public Health, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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