If you’re not familiar with the surveillance giant Palantir, you should - because they already know plenty about you.
Primarily a defence contractor, Palantir Technologies specialises in data integration and surveillance analytics.
Read More10 December 2025
Digital Rights Watch’s essential guide to the under-16 social media ban.
Today the Albanese social media ban comes into effect: allowing the rotten influence of big social media corporations on society to continue unabated rather than actually curbing them with broader social media reform.
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Social media companies harvest vast amounts of personal data and use it to push whatever will keep you engaged, even when that means prioritising attention over accuracy, safety, or wellbeing. This can result in mental health harms for all users, including increased levels of depression, anxiety and body image dissatisfaction. Everyone would benefit from reform that stops personal data being used to feed people content that captures attention at the expense of their wellbeing.
However, rather than address the root causes of this harm the Social Media Ban complicates the landscape and creates additional privacy risks for all of us.
This is your guide to how to navigate this new terrain.
Read More02 December 2025
The Federal Government’s thin National AI Plan folds to Big Tech: unleashing AI training on public and private data with no guardrails.
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AI transcription software is being increasingly rolled out across Australia, including in General Practice, Specialist, and Pediatric care settings.
We’ll be working hard to make sure the introduction of AI into healthcare is done with privacy and safety at the forefront.
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Major tech companies have been quietly updating their processes to include scraping personal information to train their AI models. This means often past, present, and future data you post on popular social media sites, as well as in Google email and documents is currently being fed into huge training datasets for AI systems.
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