Privacy

There are dangers to having government surveillance carried out without proper oversight and accountability.

Despite the ruling against Bunnings, Australian businesses can continue to collect your biometric information without your explicit consent by simply putting up signs.

AI technologies can help police. But only structural and organisational reform can fix inequitable surveillance practices.

More awareness is needed of security issues with tech used to track our exercise goals.

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.

Views differ between owners and non-owners of smartglasses. But both groups agree the technology can help people.

Neither prospective school board social media lawsuit wins, nor proposed Ontario or federal privacy or AI legislation, would prevent problems related to rampant processing of human-derived data.

Australia’s Trust Exchange system offers greater convenience and security for everyday transactions. But the government must make sure it protects Australians’ privacy.

Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are equipped with a camera and powered by AI. Are the current privacy policies sufficient when it comes to the use of wearable cameras in public spaces?

After receiving dozens of unwanted calls from telemarketers, I started to investigate.

There are three key steps people can take to protect their data from big tech.

The new privacy act reform bill has some welcome amendments, but it doesn’t touch most of the substantive principles that were passed in 1988.

The decision underscores the importance of strengthening privacy laws and enforcement powers of regulators.

Knowing you should set your apps’ privacy permissions might not be enough to protect you. A cybersecurity expert explains how complicated privacy settings can trip you up.

A risk-based approach to regulating AI can help minimise the dangers of the new technology

Privacy comes at a price.

The new scheme, called the Trust Exchange (TEx), would allow people to verify their identities based on information already held by the federal government.

Open-source AI models promise a more democratic and transparent future. They can also be open to misuse – and ethical concerns remain.

Parents and governments are already concerned about children’s safety online – as part of this we need to look more closely at how students’ images are being used by schools.

Human Rights Watch has sounded the alarm over Australian children’s images found in a huge data set used to train AI models. It could be a breach of our privacy law.

When Apple finally unveiled its AI strategy at its developers’ conference, Elon Musk and privacy activists began raising alarm bells.

There are various methods for estimating or verifying an online user’s age, none of them foolproof. Importantly, is this the social media future we want?

It feels like a data breach is in the news every single week. Here’s why you should guard your personal information more jealously than ever.

Police can reconstruct someone’s movements for days or weeks at a time, without any court oversight.

A data privacy expert explains how machine learning algorithms draw inferences and how that leads to privacy concerns.