PROJECT SUMMARY

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Assessing Prospective Harms (vs Benefits) associated with ADM

Focus Areas: News and Media, Transport and Mobility, Health, and Social Services
Research Programs: Data, Machines, Institutions

The project is about assessing prospective harms vs prospective benefits associated with ADM as a first step to amelioration. It will take a two-pronged approach: firstly, focusing on individual and social harms/costs that may be associated with automated or semi-automated data processing (including collection, retention, dissemination, and other uses of data) – versus prospective benefits; and secondly, assessing the levels of risk of these harms ranging from nebulous to very significant (and acknowledging there may be
uncertain outcomes and uneven distributions). The overall aim is thus to have a fuller appreciation of harms and risks as a precursor to thinking practically about amelioration/mitigation of costs.

The project will speak to projects in the Institutions program, but it will be more specifically geared to questions of elaborating and understanding the range of prospective harms associated with loss of control over data processing for individuals, groups and society, and indeed the entirety of the living world, as a first step to finding solutions such as changes in law, or social practices, or business methods, or technologies (or some combination of these).

RESEARCHERS

Mark Andrejevic

Prof Mark Andrejevic

Chief Investigator

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ADM+S Chief Investigator Megan Richardson

Prof Megan Richardson

Chief Investigator

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ADM+S Investigator Christine Parker

Prof Christine Parker

Chief Investigator

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Simon Coghlan

Dr Simon Coghlan

Associate Investigator

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Jake Goldenfein

Dr Jake Goldenfein

Associate Investigator

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ADM+S Investigator Fiona Haines

Prof Fiona Haines

Associate Investigator

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Dr Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández

Associate Investigator

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James Meese

Dr James Meese

Associate Investigator

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Andrew Roberts

Prof Andrew Roberts

Associate Investigator

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ADM+S Investigator Ivana Jurko

Ivana Jurko

Partner Investigator

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José-Miguel Bello y Villarino

Dr José-Miguel Bello Villarino

Research Fellow

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Anjalee de Silva

Dr Anjalee de Silva

Research Fellow

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Henry Fraser

Dr Henry Fraser

Research Fellow

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Dr Rosalie Gillett

Research Fellow

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Aitor Jiménez

Dr Aitor Jiménez

Research Fellow

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PARTNERS

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Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (OVIC)

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Australian Red Cross

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