AI datacentres to be used by US hyperscalers are being built across Australia at a pace that governments are struggling to keep up with, and the costs are being passed on to everyone else.
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The exposure draft of the Code is an extremely welcome development, and Digital Rights Watch is broadly supportive of this initiative. The development of the Code represents an important step forward for Australia’s privacy landscape, which otherwise lags behind many comparable jurisdictions. With many Australians expressing concerns about the dangers and problems of online environments, especially for young people, the draft Code represents a rights-respecting approach to addressing a range of these concerns.
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As Repro Uncensored and the coalition of Dutch queer organizations pursue landmark legal action against Meta over the mass removal of queer Instagram accounts in the Netherlands, Digital Rights Watch and Repro Uncensored are warning that similar legal and regulatory challenges could emerge in Australia, where the organizations estimate that dozens of accounts have been wrongly removed or restricted.
Read MoreA clinic in Melbourne refuses to treat patients who do not consent to their use of an AI scribe. This development is shocking but not unsurprising. AI scribes are popping-up all over our health system, promising productivity gains to clinics. But they come with significant risks: risks to patient privacy, risks to the quality of healthcare, and risks to doctors’ liability. It is entirely reasonable for a person to reject the use of AI scribes in the course of their healthcare.
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Dating apps play a significant role in gender-based violence by providing perpetrators direct access to potential victims.
A closer look at dating app data practices shows that dating apps expose users to additional harms by monetising their personal data, a problem exacerbated by emerging AI tools.
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Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) refers to acts of violence or abuse that are directed at a person or group based on their gender and committed, assisted, or amplified by digital technologies.
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