Workplace surveillance has accelerated in recent years in Victoria. Over this time, privacy and surveillance laws have not kept pace. This report outlines the extent to which surveillance data is being utilised in Victorian workplaces. It recommends Victoria introduce new workplace surveillance laws that are technology neutral and ensure surveillance is reasonable, necessary and proportionate.

Intimate partner homicide (IPH) is one of the most common forms of homicide in Australia. Considerable recent public debate has focused on the issue yet relatively few programs have been designed to prevent it. This paper explores whether and how a multi-agency model designed to intervene with fixated individual could be applied to the problem.

The Chinese Communist Party operates a society-wide system of tech-enhanced authoritarian governance, facilitated by a sophisticated online censorship apparatus and internet-linked physical surveillance devices. This report outlines how the party-state communicates on issues related to surveillance, as well as people’s views on state surveillance, data privacy, facial recognition, DNA collection and data-management technologies.

This consultation paper seeks community views on a staged approach to considering implementation of the civil surveillance reforms recommended by the Queensland Law Reform Commission (QLRC). It also seeks feedback on the workability of those aspects of the QLRC draft Bill that impose the use prohibitions and communication or publication prohibitions.

The increasing sophistication and spread of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital surveillance technologies has drawn concerns over privacy and human rights. This paper provides five recommendations for democratic governments and three for civil society.