Dr Kobi Leins
Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics, Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne
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Health & Medicine
Part 4: Things we know at the end of 2020
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?
Sciences & Technology
A little bird didn’t tell me
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
Sciences & Technology
When tools for a health emergency become tools of oppression
Surveillance technology deployed to combat COVID-19 can quickly be used against civil freedoms
Politics & Society
Do we really need a tracking app and can we trust it?
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
Sciences & Technology
Disarmament: What is it good for?
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
Politics & Society
AI: It’s time for the law to respond
The law is always behind technology but given the sweeping changes heralded by new technologies, legislators need to get in front of the issue
Sciences & Technology
It’s time to retire Lena from computer science
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?
Politics & Society
What is the law when AI makes the ‘decisions’?
A Federal Court ruling that the Australian government’s ‘Robodebt’ system is unlawful shines a much-needed light on what the law actually says