Reports

All or nothing? The relationship between privacy and safety in addressing online harms

Posted on May 7, 2025 | in Reports

To better understand the relationship between privacy and safety in addressing online harms, Digital Rights Watch has commissioned a research report featuring polling conducted by Essential Media. It covers some topical technologies like facial recognition and age assurance tech, client-side scanning in CSAEM detection, and methods of improving safety without impacting privacy.

The Fight for Digital Rights in the Age of AI

Posted on March 12, 2025 | in Reports

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The promise of AI innovation has captured the attention of the technology industry and its associated policy makers. While we wait for the development of a National AI Capability Plan in Australia, companies are left with a set of voluntary guardrails to navigate the technologies’ associated risks.

Digital Rights Watch proposes new Australian Digital Corporation to balance the scales with big tech

Posted on April 26, 2023 | in Reports , Submissions

The growing power of private technology companies is a threat to national sovereignty and our democracy, according to a report by Digital Rights Watch.

The State of Digital Rights: A 2021 Retrospective

Posted on March 2, 2022 | in Reports

Register here to join us at 1pm AEDT on 3 March for the online launch event for this report!

The State of Digital Rights Report: A 2020 Retrospective

Posted on February 5, 2021 | in Reports

We are proud to release the State of Digital Rights Report: A 2020 Retrospective, which examines the many ways Australians’ rights are being impacted by the activities of private companies and governments in the online world.

Breaking: press freedom in Australia

Posted on September 18, 2019 | in Reports

In June 2019, the Australian Federal Police raided the ABC and the home of a journalist from the Daily Telegraph. These alarming raids were undertaken because of journalists doing their jobs reporting on national security issues in the public interest, in part enabled by whistleblowers inside government agencies.