stocker193/Shutterstock Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University Less than two weeks after the announcement of its acquisition of US healthcare company One Medical, Amazon is continuing its expansion with a US$1.7 billion offer for iRobot, the manufacturer of Roomba automated vacuum…
Rob Hampson/Unsplash Stan Karanasios, The University of Queensland and Alemayehu Molla, RMIT University On August 9 2022, Australia’s COVIDSafe app was officially decommissioned, and all its features removed. People were encouraged to uninstall the app. Reports of its closure have…
Chances are some of your data has already been stolen, but that doesn’t mean you should shrug data breaches off. WhataWin/iStock via Getty Images Eric Smalley, The Conversation When you enter your personal information or credit card number into a…
Zofia Bednarz, University of Sydney; Kayleen Manwaring, UNSW Sydney, and Kimberlee Weatherall, University of Sydney What if your insurer was tracking your online data to price your car insurance? Seems far-fetched, right? Yet there is predictive value in the digital…
James Arvanitakis, Western Sydney University Our relationship with tech companies has changed significantly over the past 18 months. Ongoing data breaches, and the revelations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal, have raised concerns about who owns our data, and how it…