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Centre for AI and Digital Ethics travel to Viet Nam for project on legal advice in cyber and critical technologies

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    • Centre for AI and Digital Ethics travel to Viet Nam for project on legal advice in cyber and critical technologies

    In the last week of April, the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics’ were delighted to travel to Viet Nam for the first activities of the ‘Building Resilient Legal Advice for Cyber and Critical Technologies’ Project. This two-year project is funded under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Cyber and Critical Technologies Cooperation Program. This initiative aims to understand the challenges and opportunities for lawyers, legal experts and practitioners, legal experts, law and policy makers when addressing new technologies such as AI, ChatGPT and Cyber Security measures.

    Published 02 May 2023

    Applications open for CAIDE Summer Research Academy 2023

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    • Applications open for CAIDE Summer Research Academy 2023

    The CAIDE Summer Research Academy aims to foster a community of emerging, cross-disciplinary researchers at the University of Melbourne and across Australia. Applications close 16 December 2022.

    Published 01 Dec 2022

    Choice blasts Airbnb for using ‘secretive algorithm’ that judges if users are ‘trustworthy’

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    • Choice blasts Airbnb for using ‘secretive algorithm’ that judges if users are ‘trustworthy’

    Professor Jeannie Paterson and Dr Marc Cheong spoke to The New Daily about Choice findings that Airbnb is using an algorithm to decide the trustworthiness of its users.

    Published 23 Mar 2022

    Challenging Decisions made by Algorithm

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    • Challenging Decisions made by Algorithm

    Co-Director Professor Tim Miller, PhD Candidate Henrietta Lyons and Dr Eduardo Velloso discuss the issues of challenging the outcomes of automated decisions.

    Published 25 Nov 2021

    Unis are using artificial intelligence to keep students sitting exams honest. But this creates its own problems

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    • Unis are using artificial intelligence to keep students sitting exams honest. But this creates its own problems

    Dr Simon Coghlan, Dr Shaanan Cohney and Professors Jeannie Paterson and Tim Miller discuss the ethics of online exam proctoring

    Published 10 Nov 2021

    Surveillance: What is it good for?

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    • Surveillance: What is it good for?

    By Gabby Bush, Dr Simon Coghlan, Professor Jeannie Paterson and Professor Tim Miller, University of Melbourne

    Published 29 Oct 2021

    Privacy erosion by design: why the Federal Court should throw the book at Google over location data tracking

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    • Privacy erosion by design: why the Federal Court should throw the book at Google over location data tracking

    Co-Director, Professor Jeannie Paterson and Professor Elise Bant discuss the possible penalties needed to deter googling following a Federal court ruling that the company misled some users.

    Published 19 Apr 2021

    Australia vs. Facebook: Regulating the market of attention

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    • Australia vs. Facebook: Regulating the market of attention

    Facebook’s move to block Australian users and publishers from viewing or sharing news may look like it’s about content – but it all comes back to advertising revenue by Mariam Nadeem, Jeannie Paterson, Dana McKay and Gabby Bush

    Published 19 Feb 2021

    Transparency to Contest Differential Pricing

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    • Transparency to Contest Differential Pricing

    Jeannie Paterson, Tim Miller and Gabby Bush published 'Transparency to Contest Differential Pricing' in the Journal for Australian and New Zealand Societies for Computers and the Law.

    Published 08 Feb 2021

    Regulatory mechanisms for protecting reasonable expectations of privacy: the roles of consent and fairness in Australian and Indian Data Protection Law

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    • Regulatory mechanisms for protecting reasonable expectations of privacy: the roles of consent and fairness in Australian and Indian Data Protection Law

    This project is a collaboration between Melbourne Law School and Jindal Global University, India. The project seeks to build pathways for legal innovation in India to support and inform law reform in Australia and other comparable jurisdictions, and also for reciprocal interactions.

    Published 24 Nov 2020

    CAIDE Summer Research Academy

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    • CAIDE Summer Research Academy

    The CAIDE Summer Research Academy will be held from 5 November 2020 - 12 February 2021 as a series of workshops, seminars and events for PhD and Early Career Researchers who are studying technology and AI with an ethical lens.

    Published 22 Sep 2020

    Apps Can Charge You More Based on Sex and Location, and Legislation Can’t Keep Up

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    • Apps Can Charge You More Based on Sex and Location, and Legislation Can’t Keep Up

    Co-Director Tim Miller spoke with Gizmodo about bias in the Tinder Algorithm.

    Published 31 Aug 2020

    Three Questions with CAIDE: What do we lose when we outsource judgements to algorithms?

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    • Three Questions with CAIDE: What do we lose when we outsource judgements to algorithms?

    CAIDE Co-Director Tim Miller asks Associate Professor Tatiana Cutts about legal decision-making algorithms.

    Published 19 Aug 2020

    The Connected You: Home

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    • The Connected You: Home

    Co-Director Jeannie Paterson spoke for the Melbourne Connect event 'The Connected You: Home' on the increased involvement of digital assistants in our lives.

    Published 11 Aug 2020

    Launch of the Australian Society for Computers and Law

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    • Launch of the Australian Society for Computers and Law

    Co-Director Jeannie Paterson spoke on a panel for the online launch of the Australian Society for Computers and Law.

    Published 10 Aug 2020

    AI, Ethics and the Law in Film, Media and Literature

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    • AI, Ethics and the Law in Film, Media and Literature

    For our upcoming subject AI, Ethics and the Law the CAIDE team made a series of videos to discuss AI, Ethics in Film, Media and Literature.

    Published 23 Jul 2020

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