ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Monika Zalnieriute

Monika Zalnieriute is a Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow at the Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney. Monika is also a Senior Fellow at Law Institute of Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, an Associate Investigator at Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence ‘Automated Decision-Making and Society’ and a Research Lead of ‘AI Decision-Making and the Law’ stream at Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation, UNSW Sydney.

POSTS BY Monika Zalnieriute

14 December 2021

Monika Zalnieriute

Wie die Überwachung des öffentlichen Raums den politischen Protest in Australien aushöhlt

Während Protestbewegungen auf der ganzen Welt an Schwung gewinnen - von Extinction Rebellion, Black Lives Matter bis hin zu starken Pro-Demokratie-Protesten in Chile und Hong Kong - bauen Regierungen auf der ganzen Welt ihre Überwachungskapazitäten im Namen des "Schutzes der Öffentlichkeit" und der "Bewältigung von Notfällen" aus. Australien ist keine Ausnahme von diesem Trend. Continue reading >>

14 December 2021

Monika Zalnieriute

How Public Space Surveillance is Eroding Political Protests in Australia

As protest movements are gaining momentum across the world, with Extinction Rebellion, Black Lives Matter, and strong pro-democracy protests in Chile and Hong Kong are taking centre stage, governments around the world are increasing their surveillance capacities in the name of “protecting the public” and “addressing emergencies”. Australia is not an exception to this trend. Continue reading >>

02 June 2021

Monika Zalnieriute

Procedural Fetishism and Mass Surveillance under the ECHR

On 25th May 2021, the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR ruled in the case Big Brother Watch v. UK that some aspects of the UK’s surveillance regime violated Articles 8 and 10 of the ECHR. Big Brother Watch is the first decision on mass surveillance since the Snowden revelations and sets a standard, grounded in “procedural fetishism”, which endorses the legality of bulk surveillance operations. Continue reading >>

16 July 2020

Genna Churches, Monika Zalnieriute

A Groundhog Day in Brussels

16 July 2020 feels like Groundhog Day in Brussels. For those, who did not see the famous film Groundhog Day, it’s about reliving the same experience again and again until the main protagonist gets ‘why’. Similarly, the much anticipated Schrems II decision, delivered by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) today, is almost a ‘reliving’ of its earlier decision in Schrems I. How many ‘Schrems’ are we going to have — and who is the protagonist that needs to get ‘why’? Let’s look at it all in more detail. Continue reading >>

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