On Monday 17 August, the IIC Australian Chapter hosted a webinar discussing countering Misinformation. This webinar looks at Australia’s proposed voluntary code of practice for online misinformation, its key elements, role and resource demands, explores Taiwan’s outcomes-based misinformation code, its background and effectiveness, discusses Google’s public policy approach to misinformation in the Asia Pacific region… [Read More]
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Understanding Regulatory Powers and Legislation in Times of Pandemic
Summary Report IIC Workshop: Understanding Regulatory Powers and Legislation in Times of Pandemic, 3 June 2020 Learn more here.
Will grading problems cause an algorithm backlash?
Withdrawal of moderated exam results draws wider scrutiny of data use Wired reports on the decision by the UK government to abandon the use of a statistical model designed to moderate exam grades after tests were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. There had been widespread complaints and protests about the results in which 40 per… [Read More]
Australian regulation ‘threatens free search services’
Google vows to fight plans to make it pay for news content Google has used an open letter to claim that proposed regulation will ‘hurt how Australians use Google Search and YouTube’, reports the Financial Times. Mel Silva, Google’s Australian Managing Director, goes on to say that the law ‘could lead to your data being handed… [Read More]
Satellite Internet open to major security threats
Ars Technica reports on a briefing at the ‘Black Hat’ security conference, in which an Oxford researcher, James Pavur, revealed the extent to which satellite internet is ‘putting millions of users at risk’, in spite of providers adopting new technologies. The research involved pointing receivers at geostationary satellites and scanning the k-band spectrum to identify internet traffic…. [Read More]
Police use of facial recognition ‘breaches human rights and data protection law’
Court ruling represents a ‘landmark legal victory’ The UK Court of Appeal has upheld a challenge by campaigners over the use of facial recognition technology by police forces, reports the Financial Times. The court ruled that there were ‘fundamental deficiencies’ in the legal framework governing its deployment, and too broad a discretion given to police officers…. [Read More]