Monique Mann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monique Mann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monique |
| FAMILY NAME | Mann |
| SIGNATURE | MANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8372-3797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
There’s (not) an App for that: Situating smartphones, Excel and the techno-political interfaces and infrastructures of digital solutions for Covid-19
This paper focuses on the operational-infrastructural puzzles of mHealth via COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps (CTA). Significant literature exists on user adoption of the platformisation of public health during the pandemic, but there has been limited consideration of how those responsible for implementing CTA design, deployment, and use of public health infrastructures did so. We redress this imbalance by exploring some of the politics and practica…
Electronic Surveillance and Australian Journalism: Surveillance Normalization and Emergent Norms of Information Security
The electronic surveillance capabilities of law enforcement in Australia have significantly strengthened in recent years creating considerable impacts on the practice of journalism. This paper reports on Australia’s hyper-legislative approach and the normalization of surveillance reflecting on what this means for journalists’ ability to securely communicate with sources and trust the digital infrastructure that they now rely on. Interviews with 1…
Locked In: Digital Colonialism and the Platformed Prison
This article examines the “prison platform” as a novel technology of digital confinement. The focus is how United States multinational Honeywell established a prison platform in Australia and New Zealand, neighboring settler colonies where the Indigenous peoples never ceded sovereignty, and prison systems continue to be stamped by deeply entrenched patterns of Indigenous hyperincarceration. While studies of digital colonialism have tended to focu…
The Cambridge Handbook of Facial Recognition in the Modern State
In situations ranging from border control to policing and welfare, governments are using automated facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect taxes, prevent crime, police cities and control immigration. FRT involves the processing of a person's facial image, usually for identification, categorisation or counting. This ambitious handbook brings together a diverse group of legal, computer, communications, and social and political science schola…
Governing Chinese technologies: TikTok, foreign interference, and technological sovereignty
In this article, we analyse attempts to regulate and control TikTok through the lens of foreign interference and technological sovereignty in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union
Surfveillance: SurfCams, Social Issues and Regulatory Intervention
We make a unique contribution to the field of sport and social issues with a place-based case study of one SurfCam fixed to a private residence overlooking the world famous and iconic Bells Beach Surfing Recreation Reserve on the Surf Coast of Victoria, Australia. This case study offers a paradigm example of corporate extractivism that occurs through the surveillance of public space by a private company, which contributes to a range of social and…
Techno-Political Promises of Pandemic Management: A Situation of Apps and Excel in Public Health
This article considers the politics and practicalities of responding to the COVID crisis with ‘an app for that’. It shows how seductive solutionism in times of crisis created political impetus to direct the public health response to contact tracing through Contact Tracing Apps (CTA). Rather than focus on user-based concerns (uptake, privacy, etc.), we’ve investigated how apps interface with complex systems and infrastructures of public health. Ou…
Tech money in civil society: Whose interests do digital rights organisations represent
This article explores philanthropic interactions between ‘Big Tech’ and digital rights civil society organizations (DRCSOs) to enhance understanding of the alignment and misalignment of interests between these groups. ‘Big Tech’ wields political influence by distributing cash to research and policy organizations. Academic research supporting ‘Big Tech’ business practices is marshalled to support their political lobbying efforts, while civil socie…
Consumer IoT and its under‐regulation: Findings from an Australian study
The expansive growth of consumer internet of things (IoT) has created a range of concerns around privacy, security, and their broader societal impacts. This article reports on findings from interviews with 32 key stakeholders from the fields of information security, policy and regulation, the IoT industry, consumer and privacy law, and academia in Australia. It details a broad variety of issues and concerns that go beyond the well‐recognised issu…
Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for Covid-19 contact-tracing
In this article, we examine the rise of contact-tracing apps during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic as a new form of technological solutionism – a technological or techno-social fix that can be deployed at national scale in response to an urgent, supranational problem. A dystopian view saw the rapid development and proliferation of COVID-19 contact-tracing apps as a vanguard technology for surveillance. Expediently deployed as a techno…
Smart Parenting? The Internet of Things, Children’s Privacy, and Data Justice
This paper examines children’s privacy and the Internet of Things (IoT). After describing the operation of IoTs directly marketed to and for children, we outline research concerning the surveillance of children and issues associated with children’s right to privacy, including the role of parents or guardians in protecting their children’s right to privacy. We then present the findings of a survey of Australian IoT consumers and non-consumers (n =…
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech
Big Tech knows it has an ethics problem. From algorithmic systems that deliver biased and inequitable outcomes (Sweeney, 2013; Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018; Noble, 2018; Abid et al., 2021; Phan and W
Regulatory arbitrage and transnational surveillance: Australia’s extraterritorial assistance to access encrypted communications
This article examines developments regarding encryption law and policy within 'Five Eyes' (FVEY) countries by focussing on the recently enacted Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018 (Cth) in Australia. The legislation is significant both domestically and internationally because of its extraterritorial reach, allowing the development of new ways for Australian law enforcement and security agencies to a…
Geopolitics, jurisdiction and surveillance
The internet is a forum for geopolitical struggle as states wield power beyond their terrestrial territorial borders through the extraterritorial geographies of data flows. This exertion of power across multiple jurisdictions, and via the infrastructure of transnational technology companies, creates new challenges for traditional forms of regulatory governance and the protection of human rights
Technological Politics of Automated Welfare Surveillance: Social (and Data) Justice through Critical Qualitative Inquiry
This article presents a detailed case study of “RoboDebt” in Australia and examines the political rationalities that underpin automated welfare surveillance systems. First, it is argued that neoliberal political rationalities shape the bureaucratic strategies enacted by agencies established to administer neoliberal welfare policy. Second, it is shown that neoliberal political rationalities influence the design and deployment of new surveillance t…
Lawful Illegality: Authorizing Extraterritorial Police Surveillance
This paper examines Lisa Austin’s (2015) concept of lawful illegality, which interrogates the legal foundations for potentially unlawful surveillance practices by United States (US) signals intelligence (SIGINT) agencies. Lawful illegality involves the technically lawful operation of surveillance powers that might be considered unlawful when examined through a rule of law framework. We argue lawful illegality is expanding into domestic policing t…
D printing, policing and crime
This article examines the implications of advanced manufacturing technology, more commonly known as three dimensional (3D) printing, for policing and crime, notably the dissemination of digital design files and the use of 3D printers to produce illicit firearms. The application and rapid evolution of 3D printing technology has created new challenges for law and regulation, and represents an interesting security paradox, albeit one which until now…
Policing and Politicising Organised Crime
The concept of ‘organised crime’ is constructed and mobilised by a milieu of complex factors and discourses including a politics of law and order, and international insecurity, combined with the vested interests and priorities of scholars, politicians, government officials, and policing authorities. This book challenges existing assumptions and accepted understandings of organised crime, and explores the ways in which it is amplified and reconstr…
Politicising and Policing Organised Crime
Challenging algorithmic profiling: The limits of data protection and anti-discrimination in responding to emergent discrimination
The potential for biases being built into algorithms has been known for some time (e.g., Friedman and Nissenbaum, 1996), yet literature has only recently demonstrated the ways algorithmic profiling can result in social sorting and harm marginalised groups (e.g., Browne, 2015; Eubanks, 2018; Noble, 2018). We contend that with increased algorithmic complexity, biases will become more sophisticated and difficult to identify, control for, or contest.…
Biometrics, Crime and Security
This book addresses the use of biometrics – including fingerprint identification, DNA identification and facial recognition – in the criminal justice system: balancing the need to ensure society is protected from harms, such as crime and terrorism, while also preserving individual rights. It offers a comprehensive discussion of biometric identification that includes a consideration of: basic scientific principles, their historical development, th…
The limits of (digital) constitutionalism: Exploring the privacy-security (im)balance in Australia
This article explores the challenges of digital constitutionalism in practice through a case study examining how concepts of privacy and security have been framed and contested in Australian cyber security and telecommunications policy-making over the last decade. The Australian Government has formally committed to ‘internet freedom’ norms, including privacy, through membership of the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC). Importantly, however, this com…
The legal geographies of transnational cyber-prosecutions: Extradition, human rights and forum shifting
This article describes legal and human rights issues in three cases of transnational online offending involving extradition requests by the United States (US). These cases were selected as all suspects claimed the negative impacts of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) were sufficient to deny extradition on human rights grounds. We demonstrate how recent developments in UK and Irish extradition law raise human rights and prosecutorial challenges spe…
(Big) Data and the North- in -South: Australia’s Informational Imperialism and Digital Colonialism
Australia is a country firmly part of the Global North, yet geographically located in the Global South. This North-in-South divide plays out internally within Australia given its status as a British settler-colonial society which continues to perpetrate imperial and colonial practices vis-à-vis the Indigenous peoples and vis-à-vis Australia’s neighboring countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This article draws on and discusses five seminal exampl…
Automated Facial Recognition Technology: Recent Developments and Approaches to Oversight
There has been a rapid expansion in the type and volume of information collected for security purposes following the terrorist attacks on the United States of America on 11 September 2001. This event has been described as precipitating a program of ‘globalised surveillance’. New technology, biometric identification and other developments such as metadata retention can provide governments with an increasingly comprehensive picture of citizens’ liv…
(Big) Data and the North- in -South: Australia’s Informational Imperialism and Digital Colonialism
Australia is a country firmly part of the Global North, yet geographically located in the Global South. This North-in-South divide plays out internally within Australia given its status as a British settler-colonial society which continues to perpetrate imperial and colonial practices vis-à-vis the Indigenous peoples and vis-à-vis Australia’s neighboring countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This article draws on and discusses five seminal exampl…
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech
Big Tech knows it has an ethics problem. From algorithmic systems that deliver biased and inequitable outcomes (Sweeney, 2013; Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018; Noble, 2018; Abid et al., 2021; Phan and W
Challenging algorithmic profiling: The limits of data protection and anti-discrimination in responding to emergent discrimination
The potential for biases being built into algorithms has been known for some time (e.g., Friedman and Nissenbaum, 1996), yet literature has only recently demonstrated the ways algorithmic profiling can result in social sorting and harm marginalised groups (e.g., Browne, 2015; Eubanks, 2018; Noble, 2018). We contend that with increased algorithmic complexity, biases will become more sophisticated and difficult to identify, control for, or contest.…
Technological Politics of Automated Welfare Surveillance: Social (and Data) Justice through Critical Qualitative Inquiry
This article presents a detailed case study of “RoboDebt” in Australia and examines the political rationalities that underpin automated welfare surveillance systems. First, it is argued that neoliberal political rationalities shape the bureaucratic strategies enacted by agencies established to administer neoliberal welfare policy. Second, it is shown that neoliberal political rationalities influence the design and deployment of new surveillance t…
D printing, policing and crime
This article examines the implications of advanced manufacturing technology, more commonly known as three dimensional (3D) printing, for policing and crime, notably the dissemination of digital design files and the use of 3D printers to produce illicit firearms. The application and rapid evolution of 3D printing technology has created new challenges for law and regulation, and represents an interesting security paradox, albeit one which until now…
Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for Covid-19 contact-tracing
In this article, we examine the rise of contact-tracing apps during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic as a new form of technological solutionism – a technological or techno-social fix that can be deployed at national scale in response to an urgent, supranational problem. A dystopian view saw the rapid development and proliferation of COVID-19 contact-tracing apps as a vanguard technology for surveillance. Expediently deployed as a techno…
Automated Facial Recognition Technology: Recent Developments and Approaches to Oversight
There has been a rapid expansion in the type and volume of information collected for security purposes following the terrorist attacks on the United States of America on 11 September 2001. This event has been described as precipitating a program of ‘globalised surveillance’. New technology, biometric identification and other developments such as metadata retention can provide governments with an increasingly comprehensive picture of citizens’ liv…
Smart Parenting? The Internet of Things, Children’s Privacy, and Data Justice
This paper examines children’s privacy and the Internet of Things (IoT). After describing the operation of IoTs directly marketed to and for children, we outline research concerning the surveillance of children and issues associated with children’s right to privacy, including the role of parents or guardians in protecting their children’s right to privacy. We then present the findings of a survey of Australian IoT consumers and non-consumers (n =…
Lawful Illegality: Authorizing Extraterritorial Police Surveillance
This paper examines Lisa Austin’s (2015) concept of lawful illegality, which interrogates the legal foundations for potentially unlawful surveillance practices by United States (US) signals intelligence (SIGINT) agencies. Lawful illegality involves the technically lawful operation of surveillance powers that might be considered unlawful when examined through a rule of law framework. We argue lawful illegality is expanding into domestic policing t…
The legal geographies of transnational cyber-prosecutions: Extradition, human rights and forum shifting
This article describes legal and human rights issues in three cases of transnational online offending involving extradition requests by the United States (US). These cases were selected as all suspects claimed the negative impacts of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) were sufficient to deny extradition on human rights grounds. We demonstrate how recent developments in UK and Irish extradition law raise human rights and prosecutorial challenges spe…
New public management and the ‘business’ of policing organised crime in Australia
The globalisation of new public management (NPM) across OECD countries had a profound impact on the administration and management of policing policy and practice. The ideologies of NPM were enthusiastically embraced in Australia in response to high-level corruption with mixed results. This article draws on interviews with senior Australian federal police to explore the policing of organised crime in the context of NPM. Emerging themes concerned t…
New public management and the ‘business’ of policing organised crime in Australia
The globalisation of new public management (NPM) across OECD countries had a profound impact on the administration and management of policing policy and practice. The ideologies of NPM were enthusiastically embraced in Australia in response to high-level corruption with mixed results. This article draws on interviews with senior Australian federal police to explore the policing of organised crime in the context of NPM. Emerging themes concerned t…
Automated Facial Recognition Technology: Recent Developments and Approaches to Oversight
There has been a rapid expansion in the type and volume of information collected for security purposes following the terrorist attacks on the United States of America on 11 September 2001. This event has been described as precipitating a program of ‘globalised surveillance’. New technology, biometric identification and other developments such as metadata retention can provide governments with an increasingly comprehensive picture of citizens’ liv…
Biometrics, Crime and Security
This book addresses the use of biometrics – including fingerprint identification, DNA identification and facial recognition – in the criminal justice system: balancing the need to ensure society is protected from harms, such as crime and terrorism, while also preserving individual rights. It offers a comprehensive discussion of biometric identification that includes a consideration of: basic scientific principles, their historical development, th…
The limits of (digital) constitutionalism: Exploring the privacy-security (im)balance in Australia
This article explores the challenges of digital constitutionalism in practice through a case study examining how concepts of privacy and security have been framed and contested in Australian cyber security and telecommunications policy-making over the last decade. The Australian Government has formally committed to ‘internet freedom’ norms, including privacy, through membership of the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC). Importantly, however, this com…
The legal geographies of transnational cyber-prosecutions: Extradition, human rights and forum shifting
This article describes legal and human rights issues in three cases of transnational online offending involving extradition requests by the United States (US). These cases were selected as all suspects claimed the negative impacts of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) were sufficient to deny extradition on human rights grounds. We demonstrate how recent developments in UK and Irish extradition law raise human rights and prosecutorial challenges spe…
(Big) Data and the North- in -South: Australia’s Informational Imperialism and Digital Colonialism
Australia is a country firmly part of the Global North, yet geographically located in the Global South. This North-in-South divide plays out internally within Australia given its status as a British settler-colonial society which continues to perpetrate imperial and colonial practices vis-à-vis the Indigenous peoples and vis-à-vis Australia’s neighboring countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This article draws on and discusses five seminal exampl…
Policing and Politicising Organised Crime
The concept of ‘organised crime’ is constructed and mobilised by a milieu of complex factors and discourses including a politics of law and order, and international insecurity, combined with the vested interests and priorities of scholars, politicians, government officials, and policing authorities. This book challenges existing assumptions and accepted understandings of organised crime, and explores the ways in which it is amplified and reconstr…
Politicising and Policing Organised Crime
Challenging algorithmic profiling: The limits of data protection and anti-discrimination in responding to emergent discrimination
The potential for biases being built into algorithms has been known for some time (e.g., Friedman and Nissenbaum, 1996), yet literature has only recently demonstrated the ways algorithmic profiling can result in social sorting and harm marginalised groups (e.g., Browne, 2015; Eubanks, 2018; Noble, 2018). We contend that with increased algorithmic complexity, biases will become more sophisticated and difficult to identify, control for, or contest.…
Regulatory arbitrage and transnational surveillance: Australia’s extraterritorial assistance to access encrypted communications
This article examines developments regarding encryption law and policy within 'Five Eyes' (FVEY) countries by focussing on the recently enacted Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018 (Cth) in Australia. The legislation is significant both domestically and internationally because of its extraterritorial reach, allowing the development of new ways for Australian law enforcement and security agencies to a…
Geopolitics, jurisdiction and surveillance
The internet is a forum for geopolitical struggle as states wield power beyond their terrestrial territorial borders through the extraterritorial geographies of data flows. This exertion of power across multiple jurisdictions, and via the infrastructure of transnational technology companies, creates new challenges for traditional forms of regulatory governance and the protection of human rights
Technological Politics of Automated Welfare Surveillance: Social (and Data) Justice through Critical Qualitative Inquiry
This article presents a detailed case study of “RoboDebt” in Australia and examines the political rationalities that underpin automated welfare surveillance systems. First, it is argued that neoliberal political rationalities shape the bureaucratic strategies enacted by agencies established to administer neoliberal welfare policy. Second, it is shown that neoliberal political rationalities influence the design and deployment of new surveillance t…
Lawful Illegality: Authorizing Extraterritorial Police Surveillance
This paper examines Lisa Austin’s (2015) concept of lawful illegality, which interrogates the legal foundations for potentially unlawful surveillance practices by United States (US) signals intelligence (SIGINT) agencies. Lawful illegality involves the technically lawful operation of surveillance powers that might be considered unlawful when examined through a rule of law framework. We argue lawful illegality is expanding into domestic policing t…
D printing, policing and crime
This article examines the implications of advanced manufacturing technology, more commonly known as three dimensional (3D) printing, for policing and crime, notably the dissemination of digital design files and the use of 3D printers to produce illicit firearms. The application and rapid evolution of 3D printing technology has created new challenges for law and regulation, and represents an interesting security paradox, albeit one which until now…
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech
Big Tech knows it has an ethics problem. From algorithmic systems that deliver biased and inequitable outcomes (Sweeney, 2013; Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018; Noble, 2018; Abid et al., 2021; Phan and W
Consumer IoT and its under‐regulation: Findings from an Australian study
The expansive growth of consumer internet of things (IoT) has created a range of concerns around privacy, security, and their broader societal impacts. This article reports on findings from interviews with 32 key stakeholders from the fields of information security, policy and regulation, the IoT industry, consumer and privacy law, and academia in Australia. It details a broad variety of issues and concerns that go beyond the well‐recognised issu…
Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for Covid-19 contact-tracing
In this article, we examine the rise of contact-tracing apps during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic as a new form of technological solutionism – a technological or techno-social fix that can be deployed at national scale in response to an urgent, supranational problem. A dystopian view saw the rapid development and proliferation of COVID-19 contact-tracing apps as a vanguard technology for surveillance. Expediently deployed as a techno…
Smart Parenting? The Internet of Things, Children’s Privacy, and Data Justice
This paper examines children’s privacy and the Internet of Things (IoT). After describing the operation of IoTs directly marketed to and for children, we outline research concerning the surveillance of children and issues associated with children’s right to privacy, including the role of parents or guardians in protecting their children’s right to privacy. We then present the findings of a survey of Australian IoT consumers and non-consumers (n =…
Techno-Political Promises of Pandemic Management: A Situation of Apps and Excel in Public Health
This article considers the politics and practicalities of responding to the COVID crisis with ‘an app for that’. It shows how seductive solutionism in times of crisis created political impetus to direct the public health response to contact tracing through Contact Tracing Apps (CTA). Rather than focus on user-based concerns (uptake, privacy, etc.), we’ve investigated how apps interface with complex systems and infrastructures of public health. Ou…
Tech money in civil society: Whose interests do digital rights organisations represent
This article explores philanthropic interactions between ‘Big Tech’ and digital rights civil society organizations (DRCSOs) to enhance understanding of the alignment and misalignment of interests between these groups. ‘Big Tech’ wields political influence by distributing cash to research and policy organizations. Academic research supporting ‘Big Tech’ business practices is marshalled to support their political lobbying efforts, while civil socie…
The Cambridge Handbook of Facial Recognition in the Modern State
In situations ranging from border control to policing and welfare, governments are using automated facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect taxes, prevent crime, police cities and control immigration. FRT involves the processing of a person's facial image, usually for identification, categorisation or counting. This ambitious handbook brings together a diverse group of legal, computer, communications, and social and political science schola…
Governing Chinese technologies: TikTok, foreign interference, and technological sovereignty
In this article, we analyse attempts to regulate and control TikTok through the lens of foreign interference and technological sovereignty in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union
Surfveillance: SurfCams, Social Issues and Regulatory Intervention
We make a unique contribution to the field of sport and social issues with a place-based case study of one SurfCam fixed to a private residence overlooking the world famous and iconic Bells Beach Surfing Recreation Reserve on the Surf Coast of Victoria, Australia. This case study offers a paradigm example of corporate extractivism that occurs through the surveillance of public space by a private company, which contributes to a range of social and…
There’s (not) an App for that: Situating smartphones, Excel and the techno-political interfaces and infrastructures of digital solutions for Covid-19
This paper focuses on the operational-infrastructural puzzles of mHealth via COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps (CTA). Significant literature exists on user adoption of the platformisation of public health during the pandemic, but there has been limited consideration of how those responsible for implementing CTA design, deployment, and use of public health infrastructures did so. We redress this imbalance by exploring some of the politics and practica…
Electronic Surveillance and Australian Journalism: Surveillance Normalization and Emergent Norms of Information Security
The electronic surveillance capabilities of law enforcement in Australia have significantly strengthened in recent years creating considerable impacts on the practice of journalism. This paper reports on Australia’s hyper-legislative approach and the normalization of surveillance reflecting on what this means for journalists’ ability to securely communicate with sources and trust the digital infrastructure that they now rely on. Interviews with 1…
Political science (20 works) · Law (17 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Business (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Computer security (8 works) · Internet privacy (8 works) · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (8 works)