Surveillance: What is it good for?
By Gabby Bush, Simon Coghlan, Jeannie Paterson & Tim Miller Online monitoring raises serious questions about privacy and rights, but where justified it can be used for good if organisations consider wider issues like transparency and fairness. Youth, online news...
Is TikTok breaching your privacy?
By Niels Wouters & Jeannie Paterson TikTok is hugely popular. But its latest decision to capture unique digital copies of your face and voice is a cybersecurity threat to your identity and privacy. With more than one billion users since 2017, TikTok is one of the...
How serious is the threat of cyberattacks?
By Alexander Gillespie Calling out China for cyberattacks is risky — but a lawless digital world is even riskier. Today’s multi-country condemnation of cyber-attacks by Chinese state-sponsored agencies was a sign of increasing frustration at recent behaviour. But it...
Is cyber security a people problem?
By Gehan Gunasekara In an age where personal information is the new oil, chief privacy officers in companies should be as important as chief financial officers. Gehan Gunasekara explains the human dimension to cyber vulnerabilities – and how we can keep safe. ...
Can individuals control the monetisation of their data?
By Paul Panckhurst Tech giants make billions of dollars as people hand over their personal information in exchange for free apps, search engines and social media platforms. The raw material of our digital lives – location data, online searches, purchases, “likes” – is...
Is the cyberattack on NZX a wakeup call for New Zealand?
By Logan Carmichael Cyberattacks are taking place with increasing frequency, and with increasing capability to do widespread damage. On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) halted trading as a result of Distributed Denial of Service...
Managing the learning curves of moving online during COVID-19. Does Estonia have some answers?
By Logan Carmichael As lockdowns have been imposed across Europe and around the world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the move online of traditionally in-person tasks and services has sent many countries into turmoil. As lockdowns have been imposed across...
What can we learn from Estonia’s cyber revolution?
By Logan Carmichael Logan Carmichael explores Estonia’s cyber revolution and what we can learn from it. For three weeks in 2007, if you wanted to do practically anything on the internet in Estonia, you were out of luck. The websites of the Estonian government,...
Q+A: Is the age of privacy over?
Is the age of privacy over? What is at stake when we lose our privacy? How does a lack of privacy affect security, democracy, and society? Maria Armoudian speaks with Helen Nissenbaum, Michael Patrick Lynch, Bruce Schneier, and Joshua Fairfield. Helen Nissenbaum is a...Subscribe by Email
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