Dr Kobi Leins

After almost a year of working-from-home, home learning and lockdowns, what do we know at the end of this year that we had absolutely no clue about before 2020?

The hack attack on Twitter was aimed at financial gain, but what happens when hacking turns political? Regulation is part of the answer, as is becoming more savvy ourselves

Surveillance technology deployed to combat COVID-19 can quickly be used against civil freedoms

Privacy and transparency should be central to the use of a COVID-19 tracking app, but there are other ways to track infections, and an app may not work anyway

Efforts to control the weaponisation of new technologies like AI are fragmented, but the UN hosts an existing disarmament framework that could bring these efforts together

The law is always behind technology but given the sweeping changes heralded by new technologies, legislators need to get in front of the issue

Why has a pornographic image been widely used to train computer scientists and their algorithms? And what sort of message does it send to women?

A Federal Court ruling that the Australian government’s ‘Robodebt’ system is unlawful shines a much-needed light on what the law actually says