Media Releases

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.

Media Release: National AI Plan

Posted on December 3, 2025 | in media releases

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.

Productivity Commission promotes big tech’s regulatory agenda over the rights of Australians

Posted on August 7, 2025 | in media-releases

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.