The November 2023 offering of this course will be delivered via Zoom in 3 x 4-hour sessions over three consecutive Fridays.
Topic 1 – Introduction to Big Data, AI & Data Privacy
Friday 10 Nov 2023, 9.00am to 1.00pm AEDT (incl. 20 mins breaks)
9.00am to 10.00am - Introduction to Big Data and AI
Moderator: Lesley Hitchens, Emerita Professor UTS
Speakers: Dr Evana Wright, UTS Faculty of Law, and A/Professor Sam Ferguson, UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT).
- What is ‘Data’?
- What is ‘Big Data’?
- What is ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI)?
- Introduction to integrity/ethical issues arising from data analytics, big data and AI
- Survey of main laws and regulations that apply to data, big data and AI
- Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), AI & data
- What are the challenges in applying laws and regulation to data, big data and AI?
10.00am – break 10 mins.
10.10am to 11.10am - Introduction to regulatory framework
Speaker: Dr Kris Wilson, UTS Law
- Introduction to Australian Data Privacy law
- Introduction to Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (PA)
- ‘Personal information’
- Introduction to the Consumer Data Right (CDR) service
11.10am – break 10 mins.
11.15am to 12.50pm – Cybersecurity and ethics
Speaker: Professor Patrick Fair, Patrick Fair Associates
- What is ‘cybersecurity’ and ‘data security’?
- What are security threats?
- Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (Cth) (as amended)
- The ‘Essential Eight’ and Information Security Manual (ISM) cybersecurity framework
- Ethical obligations for sharing data
- The ‘Five Safes’ framework: a data confidentiality guide.
12.50pm – Questions
1.00pm Close.
Topic 2 – Security & Sharing Data
Friday 17 Nov 2023, 9.00am to 1.00pm AEDT (incl. 15 mins breaks)
Moderator: Lesley Hitchens, Emerita Professor UTS
9.45am to 10.45am - Privacy Act enforcement and global guidance
Speaker: Professor David Lindsay, UTS Law
- PA enforcement regime – recent Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) action
- Challenges in applying the PA to big data practices and data analytics – tackling assumptions of publicly-available private information
- PA review report – key reforms that may go beyond the ‘gold standard’ of the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Confidential information and data privacy – quantifying confidentiality and privacy once it is lost
- Balancing possibility with protection – individual rights and the greater good in a post-truth world.
10.45am – break 15 mins.
11.00am to 12.50pm - Governance frameworks
Speaker: Dr Kris Wilson and Professor David Lindsay, UTS Law
- Legal frameworks
- Data security under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)
- Data breach notification regime
- Introduction to GDPR.
12.50pm – Questions
1.00pm Close.
Topic 3 – Law, Governance & Regulation of AI
Friday 24 Nov 2023 (9.00am to 1.00pm AEDT, incl. 15 mins breaks)
Moderator: Professor David Lindsay, UTS Law
9.00am to 9.55am - Aims and ethics of AI and data regulation
Speaker: Professor Ed Santow, Industry Professor – Responsible Technology, and Director, Policy and Governance, UTS Human Technology Institute, formerly Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner
- AI in the government sector: administrative law
- AI and anti-discrimination law.
9.55am – break 5 mins.
10.00am to 10.55am - AI governance after Large Language Models (LLMs)
Speaker: Peter Leonard, Principal, Data Synergies and Professor of Practice, UNSW Business School
- Beyond ethical principles, to assuring responsible AI-enabled decisions
- Team-based assessment of risks and harms
- Roles and responsibilities in AI assurance
- Evaluating AI decision provenance
- Is governance of generative machine learning (ML) a novel challenge?
10.55am – break 5 mins.
11.00am to 11.55am - Risks and trade-offs: navigating the challenges of operationalising AI
Speaker: Linda Przhedetsky, Human Technology Institute, UTS
- Risks and challenges with AI and data
- Risks of applications of AI in the rental market.
11.55am – break 5 mins.
12.00pm to 12.55pm - Principles to practice
Speaker: Dr Evana Wright, UTS Law
- AI in the private sector - liability issues
- Global governance framework
- AI ethics principles - a voluntary framework of the Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISER) (Cwth)
- New EU AI Regulation.
12.55pm – Questions
1.00pm Close.
