Media Releases

Media Release: Amid Repro Uncensored and Dutch Queer Groups’ Landmark Legal Action Against Meta, Australian Organisations Warn Similar Cases Could Build Toward Future Legal Action

Posted on May 22, 2026 | in media releases

Brussels / Melbourne – May 2026

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.

Media Release: Regulators must step in to protect patients from AI Scribes

Posted on May 18, 2026 | in media releases

A 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.

Media Release: RentTech platforms must stop unfair and excessive personal information collection

Posted on April 23, 2026 | in media releases

RentTech platforms must stop unfair and excessive personal information collection

Digital Rights Watch has a long history of campaigning against the excessive and unfair collection of personal information through ‘Renttech’ platforms.

Media Release: Victorian schools data breach

Posted on January 15, 2026 | in media releases

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.

Media Release: AI Corporations Choosing Profit Over Safety as Abuse Images Proliferate

Posted on January 14, 2026 | in media releases

14 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.

Media Release: Social Media Ban Starts

Posted on December 10, 2025 | in media releases

10 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.