This is an important piece of work by the Human Rights Commission - a roadmap for responsible innovation

Tinder plans to start rolling out Are You Sure?, a feature that uses artificial intelligence to automatically detect offensive language and try to reduce the number of hateful messages sent on its platform. #TheWebThisWeek theverge.com/2021/5/20/2244…

Is this the future of construction work? That’s a lot of jobs to transition

ICYMI we spoke to Human Rights Commissioner Edward Santow last week on his landmark AI report. Watch it here: centreforresponsibletechnology.org.au/ed_santow_disc…

Are you interested in what #AI means for human rights and civil society? Join world-leading AI expert Kate Crawford, leading human rights advocate Hugh de Kretser and me for to discuss. Free webinar at 10am AEST this Tuesday, 15 June. More info & to register ⬇️

Study estimates the prevalence of CCTV cameras in large cities worldwide techxplore.com/news/2021-06-p…

Recommended viewing folks. The trio of @PeterLewisEMC, Lizzie O'Shea and Dan Stinton + friends get right under the hood at the nexus of digitalisation and society.

Police in QLD accessed data from the state’s QR code check-in contact tracing app to investigate a theft, with legislative changes now being considered to prevent this happening again. buff.ly/3hbmnl5 Queensland Police @DrMoniqueMann

New Zealand government to create a Consumer Data Right: beehive.govt.nz/release/govt-a…

Double-edged sword: Facial recognition used in China to curfew kids on video games - they are game-free 10pm to 8am. nytimes.com/2021/07/08/bus…

The growing movement against surveillance-based advertising

Human Rights Commissioner Edward Santow will lead a major @UTSSocialImpact initiative to support Australian #business and #government to be leaders in #ResponsibleInnovation – by developing and using #AI that is powerful, effective and fair. Read more: bddy.me/3hHt1Q8

Tune into this Tech Talk tomorrow at 1pm. Smart cities: making them ethical and trustworthy, and enabling them to deliver for society over the longer term

7 phone data privacy tips from digital security experts cnet.com/tech/services-…

6 Things You Need to Do to Prevent Getting Hacked wired.com/story/how-to-p…

The co-existence of tech and nature theguardian.com/environment/20…

This podcast from Centre for Responsible Technology will be well worth following based on their excellent Tech Talks

Facial recognition being used by leading retail brands. What do you think? Are the purposes for its use a fair trade off for the privacy impacts for customers? Is a sign at the entrance suitable notification? Is it OK to include children? lnkd.in/dcbweDz4

These images from DRIFT, in which they use drones to give a sense of what buildings were, or might be, are breathtaking.