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Empowering Users to Protect Themselves from Harmful Advertising Online

Team: Joshua Cayetano, Tegan Cohen, Kunal Chand, Bri Hines, Elijah Quiazon, Andrea Schujman, and Dr Aaron Snowell.
Mentor: Prof Daniel Angus

SUMMARY

A smartphone application that empowers users to protect themselves from harmful advertising online.

This app creates awareness about how the user is targeted and provides opportunities for collective and individual action.

THE TEAM

Team 1 participants from the ADM+S Dark Ads Hackathon

Credit: Joshua Cayetano, Tegan Cohen, Kunal Chand, Bri Hines, Elijah Quiazon, Andrea Schujman, Dr Aaron Snowell and Professor Daniel Angus.

Suggested Citation: Cayetano, J., Cohen, T., Chand, K., Hines, B., Quiazon, E., Schujman, A., Snowell, A., & Angus, D. (2022). Tech for Good: ADM+S Dark Ads Hackathon. Empowering users to protect themselves from harmful advertising online. Australian Research Council Centre for Automated Decision-Making and Society.

CONTACT US

If you are interested in collaborating on this research or speaking with this hackathon team contact adms@rmit.edu.au