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In the UK, filming someone in public – even covertly – is not automatically unlawful.
Selfies with passports or drivers’ licences can open users to sophisticated forms of fraud.
Businesses spend heavily to secure the spot on your social media feed, and that investment has to be recouped.
The new EU Commission is all about ‘competitiveness’, but their plans to cut data protection rules are extremely short sighted.
Meta faces heightened scrutiny and fines from Nigerian regulators demanding respect for local data protection and consumer rights.
Privacy comes at a price.
Existing regulations do not go far enough in protecting people’s information from being collected and shared when they visit websites.
New research shows that opt-in policies may not be as effective as intended when it comes to data protection and privacy regulations.
The artificial intelligence boom means a multi-trillion dollar industry is coming into existence before our eyes. With great opportunity come great risks, as two important new Australian reports show.
Meta now faces some A$4 billion in fines related to breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations.
Many people have become resigned to the fact that tech companies collect our private data. But policymakers must do more to limit the amount of personal information corporations can collect.
Social media and publishing platform users have generated vast amounts of data. This data remains online long after people have stopped using the platforms, and can impact people’s lives.
While the EU’s ground-breaking legislation to regulate “digital gatekeepers” has its flaws, it could rein in big tech and significantly change how it operates in Europe – and perhaps the world.
Mobile apps are sometimes ‘regionalized’ to better serve the needs of users, functioning differently in, for example, China than in Canada. But some of those differences pose security and privacy risks.
The laws about cookies are fairly clear in EU and UK, but many big companies are breaking them anyway.
Social media firms in Europe are well on the way to a thousand cuts.
Mass data collection and surveillance have become ubiquitous. For marginalized communities, the stakes of having their privacy violated are high.
Once analysts gain access to our private data, they can use that information to influence and alter our behaviour and choices. If you’re marginalized in some way, the consequences are worse.
A proposed online privacy code would give consumers more control over how tech companies collect and use their data
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Assistant Professor of Business Technology Management, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Guelph
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Professor of Information Systems Management, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice; Lead, UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative, UNSW
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Professor, Business Technology Management, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
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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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Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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Professeur de droit des affaires, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School
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Professor of Distributed Systems & Chair in Applied Data Sciences, Queensland University of Technology
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CSIT R&D Programme Manager, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer in Systems Security Engineering, Bournemouth University
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Full-time professor, Schiller Intrenational University (Paris Campus); Maitre de conférences à Sciences Po Paris, Schiller International University; Sciences Po
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Marketing, University of Sydney