WeChat, which is used by more than 1 billion people globally, has gone from ‘super app’ to ‘police app’.
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Panahi received the 2025 Palme d'Or, the highest honour at the Cannes Film Festival. He’s also the focus of the 2025 Sydney Film Festival retrospective.
AI could enable Saudi Arabia to more efficiently crush dissent and target government opponents.
There are dangers to having government surveillance carried out without proper oversight and accountability.
Donald Trump’s return has normalised and supercharged authoritarianism internationally, making it the rule rather than the exception.
State surveillance of citizens is growing all over the world, but it is a fact of daily life in China. People are developing mental tactics to distance themselves from it.
The vast majority of people alive today are subject to tracking through a number of overlapping and entrenched surveillance systems.
Monitoring of student behavior often extends beyond schoolwork and normal school hours. A privacy expert explains the harmful effects.
The judge responsible for authorising the covert monitoring of communications has found that claims by journalists that they were being spied on were credible.
Revelations of spyware abuse suggest we’re moving to a new reality in which no phone is safe from surveillance.
Granting police access to Tinder users’ information is problematic for many reasons (even if the intent is to keep people safe).
Avoiding drones’ prying eyes can be as complicated as donning a high-tech hoodie and as simple as ducking under a tree.
Technology has made life under coronavirus workable and bearable for a great many. But will it mean further intrusions into our privacy that normally would be unacceptable?
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Lecturer in Technology and Crime, Griffith University
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Lecturer in Digital Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Digital Society, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Professeure de management et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la régulation du digital dans la vie professionnelle et personnelle; Canada Research Chair in Digital Regulation at Work and in Life, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Associate provost, professor of politics, University of San Diego
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Professor of Media and Communication and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Information Policy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Associate Professor in Global Studies, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Fellow, Strathmore University
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Professor in Computational Intelligence, Australian Catholic University
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Academic, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Criminology, Anglia Ruskin University