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Raffaele F Ciriello, Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney

Australia’s proposed laws could help regulate privacy risks from chatbots – if we get the details right

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Online privacy used to mean being careful about what you shared. You also had some control over what others shared about you, because much of that info was public. You could ask a friend to take down that unflattering photo on Facebook, for example.

Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) has changed that. Big AI companies may already know much more about you than you’re comfortable with, even if you’ve never used their services.

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