Associate Professor Toby Murray

School of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne

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Banning kids from social media? There’s a better way

The Australian government’s plan to ban kids from social media overestimates the tech available to limit access and overlooks the benefits

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Sciences & Technology

The flawed algorithm at the heart of Robodebt

Robodebt teaches us that even simple automated decision-making systems come with the biases of the people, systems and policies that conceive them

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Health & Medicine

Medibank’s hack tells us privacy laws need to change

Medibank’s data breach exposes how Australia’s most vulnerable have the most to lose when private information is made public

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Under the Microscope

Using maths to prove computer security

Eureka prize winner Associate Professor Toby Murray thought maths was boring, but he now relies on it to secure critical systems like those of Defence against hackers

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Sciences & Technology

Facebook, the Government and revenge porn

Facebook and the Australian government are piloting a scheme to tackle revenge porn, but does it ask too much of potential victims to give up their privacy in order to gain privacy?

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Sciences & Technology

What kind of rear window into encryption do the Five Eyes want?

An international intelligence alliance wants to weaken data encryption for everyone in a bid to stop terrorists, but does it risk leaving us more exposed?

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Sciences & Technology

Q&A: The ransomware cyber-attack fallout

Computers in 150 countries were attacked by WannaCry ransomware – we ask the experts what we’ve learned from the worldwide hack