The Monitored Audience: Control of Personal Information in the Digital Era

在一个互联网可以收集公民详细信息、手机可以根据他们的位置向他们投放定向广告的时代，消费者需要在管理其个人信息使用的政策和实践中拥有发言权。研究表明，澳大利亚人对个人信息的收集和使用感到担忧。这个项目将探索他们正在做些什么，以及他们支持哪些信息处理政策和实践。在获取个人信息的技术继续快速发展之际，调查结果将为信息和数据处理政策的审议，以及有关商业监控的道德和法律辩论提供公民视角。

In an era when the internet can gather detailed information about citizens and mobile phones can target ads to them based on their location, consumers need a say in the policies and practices governing the use of their personal information. Research indicates Australians are concerned about the collection and use of their information. This project would explore what they are doing about it and what information handling policies and practices they support. The findings will provide a citizen perspective on deliberations over information and data handling policy as well as on ethical and legal debates about commercial monitoring at a time when the technology for capturing personal information continues to develop at a rapid pace.