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Australian lawyer dubbed ‘human rights hero’

Human rights lawyer Lizzie O'Shea has received an international award recognising her efforts to oppose Australia’s controversial encryption legislation.
Microsoft moves fast to write the regulation on facial recognition

Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith paints a bleak picture of a future where facial recognition technology has been rolled out without restriction.
Killer robot campaign defector to 'embed ethics' in autonomous weapons

Dr Jai Galliott – an academic at UNSW Canberra – used to be against fully autonomous weapons, an emerging class of military technology that leverages artificial intelligence to select and shoot enemies.
Cyber espionage research group Citizen Lab emboldened by ‘entrapment attempt’

For the first time, the University of Sydney hired a security guard to man the door at a public lecture this week, given by the director of digital espionage research centre Citizen Lab, Ron Deibert.
People with disability both liberated and left behind by today's tech

Some of the technology that has become available in the last few years, in the words of Blind Citizens Australia chief Emma Bennison “really does spell liberation”.

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