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The thriving market in online, counterfeit GLP-1 drugs that do not meet FDA criteria poses serious risks to consumers.
Online ads targeting parents in Australia prey on anxieties about their babies’ nutrition and wellbeing.
New data shows how groups with benign-sounding names like ‘Mums for Nuclear’ are running political ad campaigns online. But they don’t even have to be truthful.
The first comprehensive overview of trade in Australian reptiles and frogs worldwide shows more species should be listed for monitoring under the international convention on wildlife trade.
The UK has a gambling problem but some of its neighbours could provide inspiration on how to prevent gambling harms.
People have formed tribes since the dawn of time and, in the digital age, online tribes are helping members deal with all the uncertainties and decisions involved in getting kids ready for school.
We know targeted political adverts contribute to polarisation, but commerical ones leave us fragmented too.
Private mode browsing is a useful way to cover your online tracks. Just don’t read too much into the word ‘private.’
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.
While some online services such as banking do warrant using your true information, many sites shouldn’t require the same level of disclosure. Here’s how to protect yourself in such cases.
Many sites offer the ability to ‘opt out’ of targeted advertisements, but doing so isn’t easy. Simplifying and standardizing opt-outs would help improve privacy on the web.
Rather than revealing an advertiser targeted you by your phone number or email address, Facebook may tell you it showed you a particular ad because you like Facebook. That’s not much help.
The drumbeat of data breaches and the growing problem of identity theft disproportionately harm low-income Americans.
YouTube channels are increasingly targeting children, but research shows these young viewers may not understand when they are being sold to.
Thanks to the prevalence of technology, children are exposed to thousands of commercials a year. How can parents make their children more aware of how commercials influence what they think and do?
After 15 years of Facebook, the ways brands use it for marketing and advertising have changed – right alongside the way people make decisions as they scroll through a never-ending feed of information.
If you’re worried your phone is recording your private conversations, look closer at the data you’ve already agreed to give away.
Experts describe their research into how smartphones collect and share private personal information with tracking companies and advertisers.
Without much delay, Facebook and Twitter could make significant changes to limit political manipulation and propaganda. Will they? And will users ask it of the social media giants?
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Professor of Digital Communication, Director of QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University
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Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, Adelaide University
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Research Associate in Education Policy, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex
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Research Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
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Reader in Cyber Security, University of Kent
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Veterinarian, James Cook University
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Executive Director, Arizona State University
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
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Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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Programme Manager, NIHR MindTech MedTech Co-Operative, University of Nottingham