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Intimate harms and menstrual cycle tracking apps Open

Eliza Hammond, Mark Burdon · 2024

From object obfuscation to contextually-dependent identification: enhancing automated privacy protection in street-level image platforms (SLIPs) Open

Mark Burdon, Tegan Cohen, J Buckley, Michael Milford · 2024

Street-level image platforms (SLIPs) employ indiscriminate forms of data collection that include potentially privacy invasive images. Both the scale and the indiscriminate nature of data collection means that significant privacy management…

Fidelity in legal coding: applying legal translation frameworks to address interpretive challenges Open

Nicholas Godfrey, Mark Burdon · 2024

There is rapidly developing interest in legal coding, the development of machine-consumable code representations of legal rules. However, interpretive ambiguities inherent in legal rules make it challenging to directly translate law into c…

Digital distortions arising when encoding regulation Open

Anna Huggins, Alice Witt, Mark Burdon · 2024

contested legal ideal that, in Western democratic societies, requires every citizen to be subject to the same laws.Digital regulation initiatives, however, often reach beyond legislation, setting out to convert other rules and norms that a…

Digital distortions and interpretive choices: A cartographic perspective on encoding regulation Open

Anna Huggins, Alice Witt, Mark Burdon · 2023

Rules as Code (RaC), which encompasses the conversion of legal and regulatory rules into computer code, is gaining traction internationally. This article analyses ‘digital distortions’ in RaC, which refer to disconnects between regulation …

From Object Obfuscation to Contextually-Dependent Identification: Enhancing Automated Privacy Protection in Street-Level Image Platforms (Slips) Open

Mark Burdon, Tegan Cohen, J Buckley, Michael Milford · 2023

Digital Distortions and Interpretive Choices: A Cartographic Perspective on Encoding Regulation Open

Anna Huggins, Alice Witt, Mark Burdon · 2023

Modulation Harms and The Google Home Open

Mark Burdon, Tegan Cohen · 2021

Deleuze’s (1992) modulation is frequently invoked to explain power relations in hyper-connected, sensorised environments. However, attempts to articulate the harmful implications of modulation—a critical step in the process of considering …

Augmenting Superintendent Discretion: Trustworthiness and the Automation of Construction Contracts Open

Brydon T. Wang, Mark Burdon · 2021

There is an increasing commercial imperative to automate various
components of the construction contract administration process, including
technologies such as sensors, common data environments, machine learning
frameworks a…

Implementing COVIDSafe: The Role of Trustworthiness and Information Privacy Law Open

Mark Burdon, Brydon T. Wang · 2021

Governments worldwide view contact tracing as a key tool to mitigate COVID-19 community transmission. Contact tracing investigations are time consuming and labour intensive. Mobile phone location tracking has been a new data-driven option …

The Legal and Coding Challenges of Digitising Commonwealth Legislation: Select Senate Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology Issues Paper Submission Open

Anna Huggins, Alice Witt, Nicolas Suzor, Mark Burdon, Guido Governatori · 2021

Our submission outlines research findings from an ongoing collaborative project between the School of Law/Digital Media Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology (‘QUT’) and CSIRO’s Data61. The project aims to identify the…

Chapter 1 - Introduction: Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law Open

Mark Burdon · 2020

In Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law, Mark Burdon argues for the reformulation of information privacy law to regulate new power consequences of ubiquitous data collection. Examining developing business models, based on co…

DMRC Submission to Human Rights and Technology Discussion Paper, 14 April 2020 Open

Nicolas Suzor, Mark Burdon, Anna Huggins, Joanne Gray, Kylie Pappalardo · 2020

Australia's Consumer Data Right and the Uncertain Role of Information Privacy Law Open

Mark Burdon, Tom Mackie · 2020

The Google Street View Wi-Fi Scandal and Its Repercussions for Privacy Regulation Open

Mark Burdon, Alissa McKillop · 2019

Between 2008 and 2010, Google secretly collected Wi-Fi header data from residential and business Wi-Fi access points throughout the world. The collection also included details of personal communications commonly known as ‘payload data’. A …

The Google Street View Wi-Fi Scandal and Its Repercussions for Privacy Regulation Open

Mark Burdon, Alissa McKillop · 2019

Between 2008 and 2010, Google secretly collected Wi-Fi header data from residential and business Wi-Fi access points throughout the world. The collection also included details of personal communications commonly known as ‘payload data’. A …

Workplace Laws and Workplace Rights Under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth): What About Information Privacy? Open

Paul Harpur, Mark Burdon · 2016

Workplace Laws and Workplace Rights under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth): What about Information Privacy? Australian Labour Law Association, Eighth Biennial National Conference, Melbourne, 4 and 5 November 2016

The Privacy Commissioner and Own-Motion Investigations into Serious Data Breaches: A Case of Going Through the Motions? Open

Jodie Siganto, Mark Burdon · 2015

Data breaches resulting from information security failures continue to be an issue of pressing concern. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (‘OAIC’) recognises that data security is a major challenge for organisati…

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