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Editor's note
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Users of FaceApp, the hugely popular photo filtering app that can artificially age your selfies, may have more to worry about than grey hairs and wrinkles. Like many other apps, this one comes with reams of fine print which almost no one has read.
But Mark Giancaspro has, and he’s found that FaceApp users have waived almost all their rights to sue the app’s developer if it uses your photos in a way you don’t like.
Un-waiving these rights involves - ironically enough - posting a letter to the app’s parent company in Russia.
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Michael Hopkin
Science + Technology Editor
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Top story
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FaceApp fun (terms and conditions apply).
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Mark Giancaspro, University of Adelaide
FaceApp is surging in popularity. But if things go sour, the fine print says you waive your right to take legal action unless you wrote to the app's Russian HQ, via snail mail, within 30 days of downloading.
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Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton is pushing to have new security laws passed by parliament as quickly as possible.
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Greg Barton, Deakin University
Allowing our citizens to be somebody else's problem, out of sight and out of mind, does not actually make the security risk to Australians go away.
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It’s been four decades since the first credible, global report on the effect of carbon dioxide on the global climate.
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Neville Nicholls, Monash University
Scientists introduced credible climate change to the world in 1979, but it's taken decades for their message to sink in.
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Tampons absorb menstrual fluid whereas menstrual cups collect it.
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Melissa Kang, University of Technology Sydney
A recent study found menstrual cups were as safe as tampons and had similar or lower levels of leakage.
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Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Former ministers Christopher Pyne and Julie Bishop are among many who have accepted jobs post-office in breach of ministerial code of conduct - but they will face a senate inquiry.
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Anastasia Powell, RMIT University; Asher Flynn, Monash University; Nicola Henry, RMIT University
New research has found that young women, Indigenous Australians and people with disabilities are the most frequent victims of 'revenge porn.'
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Piero Moraro, Charles Sturt University
The new legislation will give harsher punishment to people who incite others to trespass on farms.
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Health + Medicine
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David King, The University of Queensland
Dry, moist, productive, hacking, chesty, whooping, barking, throaty. Which type of cough do you have and why?
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Education
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Therese Keane, Swinburne University of Technology; Christina Chalmers, Queensland University of Technology; Marie Bodén, The University of Queensland
Maitland Lutheran School, of 240 students in rural South Australia, found a way to teach children programming code and an old Aboriginal language. The answer was Pink, the robot.
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Cities
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Will Rifkin, University of Newcastle
The delay in adopting a national approach to building industry reform, based on a report received more than a year ago, typifies official neglect of the impacts of uncertainty on the affected people.
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Business + Economy
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Andrew Podger, Australian National University
There is a case for not proceeding with, or at least deferring, the legislated increase in employers’ compulsory super contributions, but it isn't the one the Grattan Institute makes.
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Arts + Culture
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Susan Ostling, Griffith University
Margaret Olley was known not only for her paintings, but her generosity. An exhibition of her work is currently on in Brisbane, alongside a survey of the work of Ben Quilty, her mentee and friend.
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