Research Network Secure Australia
Photo: Surveillance Studies Unit, University of NSW
Conscious that I was located amongst numerous projects running concurrently and overlapping in professional interests as well as potentially crossing ethical standards, an open declaration of these initiatives served to inform everyone of the researcher’s primary investment in how digital technologies impact humans, how they adopt and adapt these technologies for their own use and the impact of this activity more broadly on society.
An extract from my PhD thesis;
“... I joined the Research Network of Secure Australia (RNSA) in 2011 and formed the Coreveillance initiative with private covert surveillance operatives, learning a lot about activities I never knew existed. As a result in 2014 I am still heavily involved ongoing in a number of initiatives whose mandate is to provide security, data sovereignty and autonomy for its members. My activities include presentations with government and non-government agencies on topics such as policing, unmanned aerial systems (drones) and industry applications of wearables.” (Hayes 2014f)
