02 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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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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We are living in an age of surveillance, and it has never been more important for individuals to have the knowledge and tools to defend their privacy. Understanding what constitutes a legal breach of privacy empowers people to take action.
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Welcome to your taste of DRW's fortnightly newsletter!
This week: the growing environmental impact of AI data centres, DRW’s top podcast and article picks, a look at AI surveillance of Australian protests, and finally, a call-out to our readers.
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Australians’ right to protest is eroded daily. Behind the scenes, digital surveillance is assisting this erosion, and AI has the potential to accelerate the damage. This is made possible by Australia’s weak privacy laws.
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TL;DR: The political party exemption in the Privacy Act leaves the door open for political parties, their contractors, subcontractors, and volunteers to access your personal information without following the same rules as everyone else. That needs to change.
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