To augment information about you that it collects directly, the US Government is buying less-regulated information harvested by cameras, cellphones and apps and sold on the commercial data market.
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A privacy researcher breaks down how your phone reveals your location, how that data is collected and sold, and how the government gets ahold of it – by simply buying it.
Timely stroke treatment can limit brain damage and improve outcomes for patients. But this depends on early recognition of the symptoms, which is not always easy.
Offering financial incentives for exercise may be one way of stimulating, and sustaining, a more active lifestyle. Research suggests that even after rewards stop, exercise gains mostly persist.
Cartography has become one of the most successful technologies for understanding the world around us. But like the world itself, maps and map-making are constantly evolving.
Your data privacy is under threat from hackers, data brokers and big tech. Here’s what you can do about it. Step 1 is to get your colleagues, friends and family on board.
The Saudi government is using digital technology to help the hajj run smoothly and safely – the latest updates in a 200-year history of technology and the hajj.
For some parents, apps offer a practical way of keeping tabs on one’s family. But many children and teenagers experience it is as unwelcome surveillance.
Instead of making the lives of contact tracers easier, analysis shows the expensive technology missed contacts and added to their workload.
Immediate CPR and defibrillation can be key to surviving a cardiac arrest. A smartphone app is mobilising community responders who can help before emergency services arrive.
As the head of a media and communications program, my life’s digital-analogue balance was off. Four weeks at sea with no devices refocussed my views – even on things that had been there all along.
A growing number of women may be looking to non-hormonal methods of contraception, in the form of fertility awareness apps. But apps are not likely to be as effective as other forms of contraception.
Each device is complex in its own right, and trying to use them together in many different settings makes things even more complicated.
App developers deploy three key tricks to make you a more loyal and proactive user.
Today’s smartphones have the technology to help you take amazing photographs – so long as you do it right.
Experts describe their research into how smartphones collect and share private personal information with tracking companies and advertisers.
Our attempt to bring dinosaurs to life via a smartphone app was met with excitement – then it hit a brick wall.
Technology could be a promising alternative to traditional therapy.
Apps that seamlessly combine all our travel options could be the most significant transport innovation since the automobile, but early trials show government policy support is vital to make MaaS work.
Smartphones are key elements of two-factor authentication processes. Weakening their security threatens people’s digital identities.
Top contributors
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Senior Research Scientist at the Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO
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Quality of life researcher and occupational therapist, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Bournemouth University; University of Reading
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Professor of Cyber Security and Policy, Tufts University
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Data Science, Bournemouth University
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Information, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor, Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Monash University
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Honorary Professor of Planning, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Religion, Psychology and Culture, Vanderbilt University
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Health economist, University of Liverpool
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Senior lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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The University of Queensland
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Iris S. Wolstein Professor of Management Design, Case Western Reserve University