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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Submission: New and Emerging Digital Technologies and Human Rights

This submission to the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee made some broad observations about emerging digital technologies and human rights...

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Submission: To the Inquiry into Centrelink’s Compliance Program

The Allens Hub, together with the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law wrote a short submission to the Inquiry into Centrelink’s Compliance Program...

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Submission: Electoral Matters Inquiry into the 2019 Federal Election

Find a copy of the submission here.  It is submission number 137

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Second annual Allens Hub debate

This year, two teams of Allens lawyers argued their positions on Privacy vs Security, in the second annual Allens Hub debate. The topic was: enhanced...

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Submission: On the Digital Platform Inquiry

This submission, by Katharine Kemp, Stream Co-Lead of Data as a Source of Market Power, responds to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission...

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Data use, public trust and consumer trust

Allens Partner Valeska Bloch caught up with Allens Hub advisory board member,and CEO Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre Rachael Falk

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Submission: PJCIS Mandatory Data Retention Scheme

Allens Hub researchers Dr Monika Zalnieriute and Genna Churches prepared a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and...

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Submission: PJCIS Identity-Matching Services

Allens Hub researchers Genna Churches, Dr Monika Zalnieriute and Hub Director Professor Lyria Bennett Moses prepared a submission to the Parliamentary...

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Submission: NSW Mandatory Reporting Scheme for Data Breaches

Allens Hub researchers Genna Churches, Dr Monika Zalnieriute and Professor Graham Greenleaf prepared a submission to the New South Wales Inquiry into...