- How can Australia actually keep young people off social media and porn sites? A new trial will test 3 optionsby Toby Murray, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne on December 2, 2024 at 2:52 am
The trial is testing age verification, age estimation and age inference. All three options come with problems.
- Five ways you might already encounter AI in cities (and not realise it)by Noortje Marres, Professor in Science, Technology and Society, University of Warwick on November 26, 2024 at 1:20 pm
From facial recognition to delivery drones, cities around the UK are already trialling AI tech.
- AI and criminal justice: How AI can support — not undermine — justiceby Benjamin Perrin, Professor of Law, University of British Columbia on November 19, 2024 at 5:06 pm
While AI promises to transform criminal justice by increasing operational efficiency and improving public safety, it also comes with risks around privacy, accountability, fairness and human rights.
- Bunnings breached privacy law by scanning customers’ faces – but this loophole lets other shops keep doing itby Margarita Vladimirova, PhD in Privacy Law and Facial Recognition Technology, Deakin University on November 19, 2024 at 5:36 am
Despite the ruling against Bunnings, Australian businesses can continue to collect your biometric information without your explicit consent by simply putting up signs.
- In your face: our acceptance of facial recognition technology depends on who is doing it – and whereby Nicholas Dynon, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Defence & Security Studies, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University on November 8, 2024 at 1:41 am
While many people are comfortable with using facial recognition technology on their phone, they are less happy when it’s the government or private groups identifying them.
- What do people think about smartglasses? New research reveals a complicated pictureby Fareed Kaviani, Research fellow, Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University on November 7, 2024 at 11:28 pm
Views differ between owners and non-owners of smartglasses. But both groups agree the technology can help people.
- Wondering what AI actually is? Here are the 7 things it can do for youby Sandra Peter, Director of Sydney Executive Plus, University of Sydney on October 1, 2024 at 11:53 pm
AI impacts many things beyond the flashy chatbots – often in ways that quietly improve everyday processes.
- The United Nations has a plan to govern AI – but has it bought the industry’s hype?by Zena Assaad, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Australian National University on September 23, 2024 at 1:30 am
A UN report proposes seven recommendations for addressing gaps in current AI governance. It’s a small step forward, but it needs refining.
- Paying with your face: what will convince consumers to use facial recognition payment technology?by Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology on September 3, 2024 at 11:38 pm
Facial recognition technology is not new, but using your face to pay for shopping is. New research has identified what will help consumers embrace this new tech, and what could stop them.
- Australia’s privacy regulator just dropped its case against ‘troubling’ facial recognition company Clearview AI. Now what?by Rita Matulionyte, Associate Professor in Law, Macquarie University on August 22, 2024 at 2:02 am
The decision underscores the importance of strengthening privacy laws and enforcement powers of regulators.
- Real-time crime centers are transforming policing – a criminologist explains how these advanced surveillance systems workby Kimberly Przeszlowski, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Quinnipiac University on August 15, 2024 at 12:30 pm
As police departments across the US and the world adopt real-time crime centers, there’s a need for better public understanding of how these centers work.
- A world-first law in Europe is targeting artificial intelligence. Other countries can learn from itby Rita Matulionyte, Associate Professor in Law, Macquarie University on August 14, 2024 at 3:30 am
A risk-based approach to regulating AI can help minimise the dangers of the new technology
- Australians like facial recognition for ID but don’t want it used for surveillance, new survey showsby Mark Andrejevic, Professor, School of Media, Film, and Journalism, Monash University, Monash University on July 30, 2024 at 5:07 am
Automated facial recognition is becoming widespread in Australia. The technology has already been used by retail outlets, sport stadiums and casinos around the country. And in November, the Australian…
- What Philadelphians need to know about the city’s 7,000-camera surveillance systemby Albert Fox Cahn, Practitioner-in-Residence, Information Law Institute, New York University on May 24, 2024 at 12:28 pm
Police can reconstruct someone’s movements for days or weeks at a time, without any court oversight.
- Supermarket facial recognition failure: why automated systems must put the human factor firstby Mark Rickerby, Lecturer, School of Product Design, University of Canterbury on April 22, 2024 at 1:31 am
The Rotorua woman wrongly identified by a supermarket facial recognition system says ethnicity was a ‘huge factor’. Her case shows why human-centered design is needed to avoid misuse, bias and harm.
- Digital surveillance is omnipresent in China. Here’s how citizens are copingby Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, 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) on March 13, 2024 at 9:35 pm
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.
- Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstoodby Nazanin Andalibi, Assistant Professor of Information, University of Michigan on March 6, 2024 at 1:35 pm
Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are worried about biased AI and the need to perform the ‘right’ expressions and body language for the algorithms.
- Your face for sale: anyone can legally gather and market your facial data without explicit consentby Margarita Vladimirova, PhD in Privacy Law and Facial Recognition Technology, Deakin University on March 4, 2024 at 1:25 am
Our facial information is sensitive – yet companies and individuals can collect, sell and manipulate it without our consent. Australian law must change to protect us all.
- The use of technology in policing should be regulated to protect people from wrongful convictionsby Joanna Pozzulo, Chancellor’s Professor, Psychology, Carleton University on February 12, 2024 at 9:19 pm
Police use of surveillance technologies — like security cameras and artificial intelligence — is becoming more widespread. Measures are needed to protect people’s privacy and avoid misidentification.
- Face recognition technology follows a long analog history of surveillance and control based on identifying physical featuresby Sharrona Pearl, Associate Professor of Bioethics and History, Drexel University on January 19, 2024 at 1:42 pm
Face recognition technology follows earlier biometric surveillance techniques, including fingerprints, passport photos and iris scans. It’s the first that can be done without the subject’s knowledge.
- Digital ID will go mainstream across Australia in 2024. Here’s how it can work for everyoneby Edward Santow, Professor & Co-Director, Human Technology Institute, University of Technology Sydney on December 10, 2023 at 10:09 pm
2024 will see a massive expansion in Australia’s digital ID system. Good tech and strong guardrails will make Australia a world leader in this important area.
- Indigenous knowledges informing ‘machine learning’ could prevent stolen art and other culturally unsafe AI practicesby Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University on September 8, 2023 at 5:25 am
There are many programs where people can generate art using AI. However, this comes with a risk of non-Indigenous people generating Indigenous art, which negatively affects Indigenous artists.
- Foetal alcohol syndrome: facial modelling study explores technology to aid diagnosisby Tinashe Ernest Muzvidzwa Mutsvangwa, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cape Town on June 7, 2023 at 2:04 pm
Key to diagnosing foetal alcohol syndrome is an assessment of certain facial features. A 3D facial scan is expensive but 2D images may offer a solution.
- Voter ID: most people are terrible at matching faces to photos, making polling checks unreliableby Kay Ritchie, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, University of Lincoln on May 10, 2023 at 4:43 pm
Research suggests that photo ID checks at polling stations risk voters being turned away because of errors.
- As livestock theft becomes a growing problem in rural Australia, new technologies offer hopeby Kyle J.D. Mulrooney, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Co-director of the Centre for Rural Criminology, University of New England on February 22, 2023 at 2:54 am
Preventing theft on farms is much more difficult than in urban areas for many reasons – but new technological developments may help curb the crimes.
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