- Modern cars are surveillance devices on wheels with major privacy risks – new reportby Katharine Kemp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice; Lead, UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative, UNSW Sydney on November 19, 2024 at 7:35 pm
If your car connects to the internet, what personal data could it be sharing – and even selling? A new report on Australia’s 15 most popular car brands reveals these privacy concerns.
- 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.
- Youth social media: Why proposed Ontario and federal legislation won’t fix harms related to data exploitationby Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa on November 7, 2024 at 10:28 pm
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.
- How did they get my data? I uncovered the hidden web of networks behind telemarketersby Priya Dev, Lecturer & Academic Data Science, Digital Assets & Distributed Ledgers, Australian National University on September 22, 2024 at 8:25 pm
After receiving dozens of unwanted calls from telemarketers, I started to investigate.
- Facebook has scraped public data from Australian users without an opt out. What can we do?by Heather Ford, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney on September 12, 2024 at 3:52 am
There are three key steps people can take to protect their data from big tech.
- 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.
- Neurotechnology is becoming widespread in workplaces – and our brain data needs to be protectedby Edward Musole, PhD Law Candidate, University of New England on August 20, 2024 at 1:48 am
As the federal government prepares to reform Australia’s privacy laws, it needs to better protect brain data.
- A bipartisan data-privacy law could backfire on small businesses − 2 marketing professors explain whyby John Lynch, University of Colorado Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado Boulder on August 12, 2024 at 12:23 pm
Privacy comes at a price.
- Scarlett Johansson’s row with OpenAI reminds us identity is a slippery yet important subject. AI leaves everyone’s at riskby Elizabeth Englezos, Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Griffith University on May 23, 2024 at 5:44 am
OpenAI has said it will take down the ChatGPT voice of Sky, which left Scarlett Johansson in ‘disbelief’. The actor previously played the role of an AI in the 2013 film Her.
- Worried your address, birth date or health data is being sold? You should be – and the law isn’t protecting youby Katharine Kemp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney on May 22, 2024 at 3:05 am
A new ACCC report shows 74% of Australians are uncomfortable with their personal data being shared or sold. Yet this is happening every day, and the privacy law isn’t being enforced.
- Wearable devices can now harvest our brain data. Australia needs urgent privacy reformsby Edward Musole, PhD Law Candidate, University of New England on May 10, 2024 at 3:27 am
Wearables are on the rise, including a new category: neurotechnology. A headband that can track your brain activity sounds fun, but the data it collects should be stringently protected.
- Does the royal family have a right to privacy? What the law saysby Gemma Horton, Impact Fellow for Centre for Freedom of the Media, University of Sheffield on March 4, 2024 at 1:41 pm
Even those who seek out the spotlight have a legal right to privacy.
- Protecting privacy online begins with tackling ‘digital resignation’by Meiling Fong, PhD Student, Individualized Program, Concordia University on March 2, 2023 at 7:38 pm
Many people have become resigned to the fact that tech companies collect our private data. But policymakers must do more to limit the amount of personal information corporations can collect.
- Florida will no longer ask high school athletes about their menstrual cycles, but many states still do – here are 3 reasons why that’s problematicby Lindsey Darvin, Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Syracuse University on February 21, 2023 at 1:25 pm
When schools ask student-athletes about their menstrual cycles, they may be infringing on anti-discrimination and privacy laws.
- ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare. If you’ve ever posted online, you ought to be concernedby Uri Gal, Professor in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney on February 8, 2023 at 1:06 am
ChatGPT is fuelled by our intimate online histories. It’s trained on 300 billion words, yet users have no way of knowing which of their data it contains.
- This law makes it illegal for companies to collect third-party data to profile you. But they do anywayby Katharine Kemp, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW, UNSW Sydney on September 20, 2022 at 8:19 pm
The terms of the Australian Privacy Principle 3.6 are quite clear. So why is there not a single published case of this law being enforced?
- A new US data privacy bill aims to give you more control over information collected about you – and make businesses change how they handle databy Anne Toomey McKenna, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Richmond on August 23, 2022 at 6:27 pm
Data collection is big business in the US, but a bipartisan data privacy bill rapidly moving through Congress promises to affect the information websites, social media platforms and all other businesses collect.
- Facial recognition is on the rise – but the law is lagging a long way behindby Mark Andrejevic, Professor, School of Media, Film, and Journalism, Monash University, Monash University on June 27, 2022 at 2:32 am
Private companies and public authorities are beginning to implement facial recognition technology, even without rules to govern what they can do.
- Privacy isn’t in the Constitution – but it’s everywhere in constitutional lawby Scott Skinner-Thompson, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Boulder on June 15, 2022 at 12:26 pm
The Supreme Court has found protections for people’s privacy in several constitutional amendments – and used it as a basis for some pretty fundamental protections.
- Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys say they use facial recognition for ‘loss prevention’. An expert explains what it might mean for youby Dennis B. Desmond, Lecturer, Cyberintelligence and Cybercrime Investigations, University of the Sunshine Coast on June 15, 2022 at 7:07 am
Australia’s consumer advocacy group Choice identified three Australian retailers who use facial recognition to identify consumers. What are the privacy concerns?
- Genetic paparazzi are right around the corner, and courts aren’t ready to confront the legal quagmire of DNA theftby Liza Vertinsky, Professor of Law, University of Maryland on June 3, 2022 at 12:20 pm
Both Macron and Madonna have expressed concerns about genetic privacy. As DNA collection and sequencing becomes increasingly commonplace, what may seem paranoid may instead be prescient.
- Cookies: I looked at 50 well-known websites and most are gathering our data illegallyby Asress Adimi Gikay, Lecturer in AI, Disruptive Innovation and Law| Brunel Law School| Centre for AI: Social and Digital Innovation, Brunel University of London on February 7, 2022 at 2:35 pm
The laws about cookies are fairly clear in EU and UK, but many big companies are breaking them anyway.
- Meghan Markle: Mail on Sunday loses appeal in privacy case – the judgment explainedby Hayleigh Bosher, Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, Brunel University of London on December 2, 2021 at 6:04 pm
How the UK Court of Appeal reached its decision.
- A new proposed privacy code promises tough rules and $10 million penalties for tech giantsby Katharine Kemp, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW, UNSW Sydney on October 27, 2021 at 4:22 am
A proposed online privacy code would give consumers more control over how tech companies collect and use their data
- Smart doorbells: how to use them without infringing a neighbour’s privacyby Andrew Charlesworth, Professor of Law, Innovation and Society, University of Bristol on October 25, 2021 at 3:03 pm
A UK court recently ruled that a man’s smart doorbell invaded his neighbour’s privacy, and he now faces being required to pay damages. But this kind of situation is avoidable.
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