The World Cup is bringing visitors and AI-driven surveillance systems, but only one of those is certain to leave when the games are done.
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The vast majority of people alive today are subject to tracking through a number of overlapping and entrenched surveillance systems.
The study showed couch patrolling was more common than foot patrols - with social media influencing fears and suspicions.
Innovative border control technologies may be great for governments cracking down on migration — but they could further disadvantage groups that are already vulnerable.
Avoiding drones’ prying eyes can be as complicated as donning a high-tech hoodie and as simple as ducking under a tree.
The COVIDSafe app hasn’t come out of nowhere. The promises of ‘smart city’ data collection may be seductive, but we must always weigh up what we’re being asked to give up in return.
Surveillance software that identifies people from CCTV is eroding human rights and democracy.
Even governments in democracies with strong traditions of rule of law find themselves tempted to abuse these new abilities.
Health and demographic surveillance systems are important to understand people and the societies that they live in.
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Reader in Population and Public Health, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Chief Information Officer at the Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Honorary Research Fellow of The Ethics Lab, University of Cape Town
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Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs & Associate Professor, School of Public Service; Nonresident Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Boise State University
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Lecturer in Technology and Crime, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Strathclyde
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Urban Geography, University of Sydney
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Associate provost, professor of politics, University of San Diego
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Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State