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Mountains of data are being collected on you, and much of it is beyond your grasp. kris krüg/Flickr

March 31, 2015

Beyond metadata: the brave new world of big data retention

Ashlin Lee, University of Tasmania

Metadata is only the beginning. The Big Data trend means there’s a lot more information about us out there that can be tracked or monitored.

How many ways are you being watched? GlebStock

June 13, 2014

Why Reset the Net falls short in protecting you from surveillance

Ashlin Lee, University of Tasmania and Peta S. Cook, University of Tasmania

A year on from Edward Snowden’s revelations around state sponsored mass surveillance programs, some of the major players in the online and technological world (including Google, Mozilla, Twitter and Reddit…

Surveillance can be desirable – but only in the right context. Shardayyy

October 28, 2013

Watching me watching you (and liking it): surveillance isn’t all bad

Ashlin Lee, University of Tasmania and Peta S. Cook, University of Tasmania

Over the past year or so, surveillance issues have become more visible to the public, especially forms of what Australian computer scientist Roger Clarke calls “dataveillance”, or the systematic collection…

The existence of the NSA’s PRISM program may have come as a surprise to some, but surveillance in public is nothing new. EPA/Robert Sullivan

June 13, 2013

Seeing through the PRISM: the history of everyday surveillance

Ashlin Lee, University of Tasmania and Peta S. Cook, University of Tasmania

Many people have expressed their outrage at recent revelations concerning the United States’ PRISM program, linking it to the overpowering gaze of Big Brother. The PRISM program is rightly a subject of…

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