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Persona Categories: Highly Sought Places For Aussies To Live, Lachlan Hastings, Katina Michael

Associate Professor Katina Michael

The site has been touted as potentially useful to retailers trying to determine where to locate future outlets.

However, Australian Privacy Foundation vice-chair Katina Michael said companies applying profiles could get it dramatically wrong or right.

Michael said that consumers had a choice to make in light of the "big data" trend, which often mischaracterised people.

"We can continue to believe the rhetoric that says: "We are doing no harm to individuals, it is hardly tracking when profiling small neighbourhoods"... or we can begin to demand an end to the on-selling of personal information,"she said.

Forum Proceedings From “Uavs: Pros Vs Cons Symposium” In Toronto, Canada, June 2013, Katina Michael

Associate Professor Katina Michael

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), widely referred to as drones, are becoming increasingly relevant in civilian as well as military applications. UAS have been used by emergency services to help respond to and map environmental crises, to find missing people, to fight fires, and respond to traffic accidents. Their use in policing and border patrol functions is being trialled in many Western countries. Like other recent technologies (mobile phones etc), as they become cheaper and easier to use, they are likely to become much more prevalent in civilian life across a range of applications.

This conference will examine the current state …