The UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation, was an independent community of scholars based at UNSW Sydney that operated from 1 November 2017 until 1 June 2024. It sought to add breadth and depth to research on the diverse interactions among technological change, law, and legal practice. It had influence over academic and policy debates through its engagement with the legal profession, the judiciary, industry, government and the broader community and its many submissions to policy processes.

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The UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation to close in 2024

Wed 22 November 2023

The UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation will cease operations on Saturday, 1 June 2024.

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Lyria Bennett Moses

The legal terminology of AI, and increasing concerns about facial recognition software

Wed 18 December 2019
Allens Hub director Lyria Bennett Moses speaks about the legal terminology of AI, and increasing concerns about facial recognition software
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Submission: Inquiry into Anti-Vilification Protections

Tue 17 December 2019

The Hub has made a submission to the Victorian inquiry into anti-vilification protections. The submission focuses on the role of the state in relation...

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Cooperation between cooperatives and mutuals in the Asia-Pacific region

Sat 14 December 2019

Platform Cooperativism Stream Lead, Professor Bronwen Morgan recently presented a research poster on platform cooperativism at the 14th annual Interna...

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Unlawful metadata access is easy when we’re flogging a dead law

Wed 11 December 2019
Australia still uses a law from 1979 to govern metadata, with more than 100 amendments. This leaves loopholes that various agencies can exploit and...
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Lyria Bennett Moses

Algorithms and prejudice

Tue 10 December 2019

Allens Hub director Lyria Bennett Moses speaks to The Saturday Paper about the complications of using algorithms for justice.

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Genna Churches

The Power of Metadata and why current laws may not be protecting us

Tue 10 December 2019

Why should we care about our metadata?  Listen to Allens Hub member Genna Churches speak to ABC Radio 

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Want to know what's been happening at the Allens Hub?

Mon 09 December 2019
Check out our latest newsletter, released for December 2019
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To Forget, But Not Forgive: Why the CJEU’s Latest Ruling on Google and the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ is Not at All a Win for US Tech Giants

Fri 29 November 2019
Google has recently triumphed in the fight against a worldwide application of the European “right to be forgotten”. blog by Hub research fellow...
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Taking dispute resolution online

Thu 28 November 2019

Online dispute resolution or ODR is fast becoming a buzzword – but what does it mean? What are the world’s courts and tribunals doing in the online...

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