This article is based on a speech Digital Rights Watch Founder and Chair Lizzie O’Shea gave to the NSWCCL annual fundraising dinner and journalism awards on October 1.
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Without proper regulation to protect us, Big Tech corporations can weaponise this information against our democracy. They can manipulate voters, target vulnerable communities, suppress dissent, and hand enormous political power to private companies and political actors operating beyond public scrutiny.
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Smart glasses aren’t inevitable. They’re a product that only exists because our privacy laws haven’t caught up to the last decade, let alone this one. We shouldn’t be racing to accommodate them: we should be asking why they’re on supermarket shelves at all.
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Much of the dialogue around military use of AI in warfare focuses on questions of human oversight. However, this assumes that AI has a legitimate role in making decisions that can end thousands of lives.
Read MoreLast week the Albanese government released their response to the Rickard Review of the Online Safety Act 2021 with the centrepiece being a new digital duty of care.
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Internet blackouts occur when repressive governments instruct internet service providers to block or restrict access to the internet. Local laws require providers to comply with these orders so there are very few examples of internet companies successfully resisting them. Internet blackouts are becoming increasingly common: in 2024, governments imposed 296 internet shutdowns on 54 countries.
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