15 January 2025
Victorian schools data breach
Hackers have accessed the information of current and past Victorian government school students in a major data breach.
Read More14 January 2025
AI Corporations Choosing Profit Over Safety as Abuse Images Proliferate
Grok, the AI tool embedded in X (formerly Twitter), is being weaponised to digitally remove clothing from women and children’s photos. Users were found to be making up to 6,000 bikini-related requests per hour, with generated images posted publicly on the platform.
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Grok, an AI embedded within Twitter/X, is being used to digitally remove women’s and children’s clothing, and the results are being posted publicly.
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The Internet Search Engine Services Online Safety Code is another tranche of policy that bars young people accessing ‘harmful content’, this time through search engines. It is unlikely to succeed in its stated ambition of protecting children, and will definitely cause harmful side-effects.
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.
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