Almost 1000 years after their ruler demanded every detail of serfs’ lives, the digital age and mass surveillance are creating a new and undemocratic imbalance between citizens and those with power over them.
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The UK and other governments seem set on the idea that finding needles can be made easier by radically increasing the size of the haystack.
As wearables record more personal and physical activity data about us, we risk giving away more than we’d imagine.
Many people are shocked by what children are willing to share about themselves online. Is it that they don’t understand privacy, or just have a different conception of it compared to adults?
The Dallas Buyers Club court ruling has serious implications for online privacy.
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.
Avoiding the metadata retention laws and sending messages entirely privately is harder than it might seem.
Social media companies and the law are both beginning to seriously combat revenge porn.
Businesses as well as individuals could soon see their metadata retained, making the data storage points even more attractive to criminals.
Did you recently buy a Samsung smart TV? If you are worried about privacy, you may be wondering how smart that decision was following the manufacturer’s warnings that its voice-activated televisions may…
Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the UK government will look at “switching off” some forms of encryption in order to make society safer from terror attacks. This might make a grand statement…
Privacy is often thought of as the right to be left alone. Yet, our lives are embedded in relationships – with people, with corporations, with government, and with technological devices – that can’t be…
We live in a world increasingly dominated by our personal data. Some of those data we choose to reveal, for example, through social media, email and the billions – yes, billions – of messages, photos and…
The Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill introduced in the UK parliament this week is designed to place legal requirements on certain businesses to retain information about user communications. It has its…
In a post-Snowden world, anonymity is what people want online. Smartphone apps offering anonymous messaging are popping up everywhere – Secret, Whisper and now Yik Yak. The latest additions to privacy-protecting…
There have been so many leaks, hacks and scares based on misuse or misappropriation of personal data that any thought that “big data” could provide benefits rather than only opportunities for harm may…
Using Bluetooth wireless networking to send information to nearby smartphones, beacon technology could transform how retailers engage with their customers. But customers will notice how their information…
Australians’ love of social media, which includes 11.3 million Facebook users, has been a haven for social networking companies, advertisers, and increasingly journalists. But Fairfax’s recent publication…
After various celebrities’ accounts on Apple’s iCloud servers were hacked, the company has made a point of addressing these issues. It has made new claims for the security of iOS 8, the firm’s latest phone…
With the growth of internet-based cloud services, storage, social media and mobile devices, our activities increasingly leave digital shadows in our wake – social media activity, website visits, mobile…
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer, Information Management, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Global Politics and Cybersecurity, UCL
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, Indiana University
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Lecturer in Media Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professeur de Droit. co-Director of the MSc in Health Management & Data Intelligence. Droit international des affaires, Business and Compliance. Health management, EM Lyon Business School
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Honorary Lecturer in Sociology, Australian National University
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Professor in Human Resource Management and Employee Relations, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor specialising in Internet law, Bond University
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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