The 2023 World Economic Forum in Davos played host to a number of eyebrow-raising talks regarding the imposition of advanced technologies on society but none were more concerning than the one given by Duke University professor Nita Farahany.
During […]
Last week, two big things happened in the Central Bank Digital Currency (“CBDC”) arena. Another G-7 economy, the UK, took a big step toward adopting a CBDC. At the same time, the first largish economy to have launched a CBDC, Nigeria, descends further […]
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Supermarket giant Woolworths has come under fire for introducing technology to surveil self-service checkouts, filming shoppers as they scan and pay for items.
More than 100 stores across three states have been trialing the software over the past […]
Private browsing mode, also known as incognito mode, is a way to surf the web without your activity being recorded in your browsing history.
However, private browsing isn’t as “private” as you may think it is. Here’s why.
The NSW Police Force has a predilection for searching members of the public, so much so that a recently released report has found that officers are annually conducting more than 150,000 personal searches: those that involve a body, or pat down, search but […]
It has been said that ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’, and perhaps the organisations which best establish the truth of this maxim are police forces and services, wherever they may be.
This article seeks to set out how the corrupt […]
Britain is becoming a cashless society against the public’s will, a major new study has found, after the pandemic accelerated the switch to card and digital payments.
Around 10 million people, or one […]
A ‘fair and reasonable test’ for handling personal information and research data use rules are new proposals the government wants feedback on before […]
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