Digital Criminology

RMIT's @Dr_AnastasiaP @robinwcameron @gregstrattonAU examining crime, justice & inequality in #digitalsociety #DigiCrim Book:

[Digital Criminology @DigiCrimRMIT]

CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS! If you're a researcher with innovative, interdisciplinary, and forward thinking scholarship on crime, deviance, justice and/or activism in a digital society, then we want to hear from you! https://t.co/WjxGBs3jEf

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Social media users could face two years in prison for sending messages or posting content that causes 'psychological harm' under the government's new online harms bill

Ministers are looking to include so-called Twitter “pile-ons” as a possible offence https://t.co/aXHNTfXaWQ

[Paul Dowsley @paul_dowsley]

This @VicGovDH worker’s job is to walk dogs whose owners are locked in two weeks’ quarantine in their Maribyrnong apartment block.

[Digital Criminology @DigiCrimRMIT]

Smart thermostats in Texas may have been adjusted remotely by energy company during shortage
https://t.co/KR2SZD5Bg9

[Patricia Karvelas @PatsKarvelas]

THIS IS HUGE

[Prof Asher Flynn @AsherFlynn]

#EnoughIsEnough Almost 90% of sexual assault victims do not go to police — this is how we can achieve justice for survivors, written with @Dr_AnastasiaP & @rachael_burgin https://t.co/DySjNCIXDP via @ConversationEDU @Monash_Arts @MonashCrim @RapeReform @GeVARA_RMIT @DigiCrimRMIT

[Justice Connect @Justice_Connect]

The application deadline for our Digital and Data Lead vacancy is fast-approaching! If you can see yourself using digital strategies and data analysis to maximise @HomelessLaw's impact and reach - apply by 9 am, Mon 14 Dec.
https://t.co/HviXgjKbW6

[Richard Nelson @wabzqem]

I’d love some feedback/validation on https://t.co/fOzU9Iu4oN

These two locked iPhones had been sitting together for 30 mins before I took this video. The logs show exchanges were not made until after I unlocked the device. It doesn’t look like “100% performance” to me, at all.

[Digital Criminology @DigiCrimRMIT]

The shiny veneer of 'disruption' appears to have worn off for federal regulators. Which other companies will be accused of monopolistic behaviour?

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The Justice Department will accuse Google of protecting an illegal monopoly, officials said. It’s the biggest legal challenge to a tech giant in decades. https://t.co/pIx3X4QOlw

[Digital Criminology @DigiCrimRMIT]

Twitter blocks posts that contain links to NYPost story about Hunter Biden. Identifying a story from a major news outlet as harmful content signals a new step in third party vetting of reporting.

[Alex Thompson @AlexThomp]

Wow. twitter going even further than FB and is no longer letting ppl tweet the NYPost story. This is what pops up if you try.

[Digital Criminology @DigiCrimRMIT]

IRL grading algorithm lowers grade of fictional essay about a grading algorithm that lowers grades.

Fact becomes fiction becomes fact.

#socialsorting #dystopia
https://t.co/BCGAWtwwXy

[Tayla Harris @tayla_harris7]

The justification of this is extraordinary, the comments are unbelievable. These men are role models, kids playing junior footy see this on teli and think it’s okay. IT IS NOT OKAY. I don’t care about the ‘boys club’ BS, this is severely in appropriate, grow up 🤦🏼‍♀️

[Digital Criminology @DigiCrimRMIT]

MPs call for Tik Tok ban as intelligence agencies investigate privacy concerns. But is the data gathering by Tik Tok significantly more invasive than other social media companies? It will be interesting to find out.
https://t.co/OJmh8CK7nR

[Digital Criminology @DigiCrimRMIT]

Trump threatens to ban Til Tok via executive order or emergency economic powers as a retaliation against China either because of COVID-19 (says Trump), privacy concerns (says White House), or the growing soft power of China (says the elephant in the room)
https://t.co/UIB3vir6Kn

[CCLJ @unswcclj]

Academics in criminology, law and allied disciplines, activists & supporters: you are invited to sign an Open Letter to Australian governments to end the over-criminalisation and over-imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. https://t.co/FhYFQTmQHb

[Digital Criminology @DigiCrimRMIT]

Amazon's home security camera system planned to develop watchlists that would identify risky individuals based on facial recognition technology, potentially coordinated with local law enforcement https://t.co/DkANjApqS7

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

Valve says that the microtransaction economy in Counter Strike is being used almost exclusively by organized fraud networks to launder money, lmao https://t.co/AuSIckw17d

[60 Minutes Australia @60Mins]

Michelle Ruyters runs the Innocence Initiative at RMIT University in Melbourne. She believes race played a key role in determining Khalid Baker’s guilt. #60Mins

[60 Minutes Australia @60Mins]

Khalid Baker, who served a 13-year prison sentence for the murder of a young Melbourne man, wants his conviction overturned, telling #60Mins he will never stop fighting to be declared an innocent man. https://t.co/hZHvtWDMz3