Your face is part of Australia’s ‘national security weapon’: should you be concerned?
Australian government plans to increase the use of facial recognition in its counter-terrorism strategy raise concerns about privacy and how…
What ‘safeguards’ are in Australia’s data retention plans?
This article first appeared on The Conversation on 5 March 2105. To read the original article, click here. What ‘safeguards’ are…
Deakin criminologist raises concerns over mass surveillance operations in Australia and Canada.
Deakin criminologist Dr Adam Molnar has been quoted in a CBCnews article examining recent Snowden revelations that identified how Canada’s…
Dr Adam Molnar joins Board of the Australian Privacy Foundation
Dr Adam Molnar has recently joined as Board Member of the Australian Privacy Foundation (APF). The APF is Australia’s primary…
The social policy & privacy implications of UAV-surveillance in law enforcement
The UAV Triple Zero Summit, to be held in Melbourne this week, brings together a range of national and international…
Canadian surveillance scholar Adam Molnar joins the Deakin Criminology Team
Deakin Criminology is very happy to announce that Adam Molnar has joined our team as a lecturer in Criminology. Adam…
Deakin Criminologists respond to Geelong taxi ID scanning scheme
The Victorian government has proposed the introduction of a new scheme to scan the ID of all Geelong taxi passengers.…
A new chapter on ‘ID Scanners and Uberveillance’
Darren Palmer and Ian Warren (Criminology) and Peter Miller have just had a book chapter published: ‘ID Scanners and Uberveillance…
Just Published: ‘When the Profile Becomes the Population’
Deakin’s Ian Warren and Darren Palmer with Canadian colleagues Randy Lippert (University of Windsor) and Kevin Walby (University of Winnipeg) have…
Just Published: Surveillance Technology and Territorial Controls
An article by Darren Palmer and Ian Warren has been published in a special issue monograph ‘Privacy and New Technologies’ (2013,…
Security and Surveillance
Surveillance is considered by many to be a growing problem in the contemporary quest to enhance human security. A common…