This article discusses personal data, personal information, internet of things, and consumer law.
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There has long been debate within the scholarly literature around the role and the limits of consent in promoting welfare enhancing outcomes and the need for consent-based gate-keeping mechanisms to be supplemented by other protections. Moves to bolster consent within the field of consumer privacy, and indeed, the criticisms of relying on it, should be couched within this broader literature.
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This book offers a conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective for the analysis and design of sociotechnical systems.
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Should we use large-scale facial recognition systems? This article in The Conversation distinguishes between facial recognition and face surveillance and argues that we should demand a moratorium on face surveillance.
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The Rapid Research Information Forum, chaired by the Chief Scientist and organised by the Australian Academy of Science, submitted a background research document to the Minister for Health. The Lead Author was Professor Genevieve Bell, AO. Seth Lazar was one of seven other contributing authors.
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We propose an end-to-end model which generates captions for images embedded in news articles. News images present two key challenges: they rely on real-world knowledge, especially about named entities, and they typically have linguistically rich captions that include uncommon words. We address both.
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This study represents the first systematic, pre-registered attempt to establish whether and to what extent the YouTube recommender system tends to promote radical content. Our results are consistent with the radicalization hypothesis. We discuss our findings, as well as directions for future research and recommendations for users, industry, and policy-makers.
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EdTech, data privacy, children, and children's rights.
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Humans and machines regularly interact as part of daily life in contemporary societies. It is critical to understand the nature of these relationships. This presentation addresses role-taking in human-AI teams. Role-taking is a process of putting the self in the shoes of another, understanding the world from the other's perspective. We use an experimental design to determine how actively humans role-take with AI as compared with role-taking activation when encountering other humans.
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Video conferences are now king. But a popular technology could be putting corporate privacy at risk with little power to prevent it.
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The talk explored the data privacy issues stemming for the use of smart contracts and considered the effects of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Australian Privacy Act comparatively. In particular, by focusing on smart contracts the presentation explored how distributed ledger tech causes serious privacy headaches through its prioritization of the elimination of trust issues.
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The adoption of emotion detection technology is rapidly expanding. Facebook in particular has received significant media attention in this regard. But how does the continued development and deployment of this technology in an online setting fit within the current EU regulatory framework?
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