4 papers
Irrelevant carrots and non-existent sticks: trust, governance, and security in the transition to quantum-safe systems
Ailsa Robertson, Siân Brooke, Sebastian De Haro +1
Quantum computing poses an urgent and widely recognised threat to global cybersecurity, enabling encrypted government, financial, and healthcare data harvested today to be decrypte…
Interact and React: Exploring Gender Patterns in Development and the Impact on Innovation and Robustness of a User Interface Tool
Sian Brooke
In open-source software design, the inclusion of women is often highlighted simply to remind programmers that women exist. Yet, little attention is given to how greater gender dive…
PETLP: A Privacy-by-Design Pipeline for Social Media Data in AI Research
Nick Oh, Giorgos D. Vrakas, Siân J. M. Brooke +2
Social media data presents AI researchers with overlapping obligations under the GDPR, copyright law, and platform terms -- yet existing frameworks fail to integrate these regulato…
Clones in the Machine: A Feminist Critique of Agency in Digital Cloning
Siân Brooke
This paper critiques digital cloning in academic research, highlighting how it exemplifies AI solutionism. Digital clones, which replicate user data to simulate behavior, are often…