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.
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.
Read More02 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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Digital Rights Watch is disappointed but unsurprised that the Productivity Commission has swallowed the AI marketing hype. Their recent interim report advocates for a pause on regulation and discusses approaches that would roll-back the few existing protections that we have. This is at odds with most Australians who want the government to act to protect them from harm by unaccountable and unfair AI systems.
Read MoreDigital Rights Watch welcomes the determination from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner today on Bunnings’ use of dangerous and invasive facial surveillance technology. This represents a landmark decision and corporate Australia should take as a warning about the use of this technology.
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