About
How can AI and associated technology can be used to conduct various forms of surveillance, such as tracking people like family members and children?
Theme Leaders
This theme is led by Prof Jeannie Paterson (CAIDE Director), Dr Marc Cheong (CAIDE Deputy Director and Digital Ethics Advisor) and Dr Simon Coghlan (CAIDE Deputy Director).
AI and People Tracking
About
This subtheme drew on a seed funding project from CAIDE on family tracking apps, led by Jane Mavoa, Bjørn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, and Simon Coghlan. The CAIDE seed funding project led to Associate Professor Bjørn Nansen's 2026 ARC Future Fellowship project, titled "Enhancing Ethical Design and Use of Data in Child Tracking Apps". It was led by Dr Simon Coghlan (CAIDE Deputy Director and Senior Lecturer in Digital Ethics in the School of Computing and Information Systems) and Associate Professor Bjørn Nansen of the Human-Computer Interaction Group in the School of Computing and Information Systems.
Publications
Mavoa, J., Coghlan, S., & Nansen, B. (2023). “It’s about safety not snooping”: Parental attitudes to child tracking technologies and geolocation data. Surveillance & Society, 21(1), 45-60.
Nansen, B., Mavoa, J., Coghlan, S., & Gibbs, M. (2025). Public discussion of family location tracking apps: a cross-platform analysis of social media posts about Life360. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 31(3), 229-249.
AI, Health & Safety and the Workplace
CAIDE recently released a report, entitled The Slippery Slope to Function Creep: Monitoring Employees' Workplace Performance through AI Workplace Health, Safety and Wellbeing Tools, written by CAIDE RA Lily Ballot-Jones. The report explores the risk of 'function creep' occurring with health and safety-oriented surveillance measures.