These are the kinds of hardworking ppl I’m getting to see a lot more of this year now that I’ve purged my social circles of everyone who doesn’t project might & power

Naked in Readings Carlton waving a lamp in search of #SocialCohesion

hostile pattern recognition Saved My Life

Retail loyalty cards → Wesfarmers' [data side hassle] Quantium → Insurance sectors' depression risk scores Source: AIA Australia Submission to the Productivity Commission: Inquiry into the Social and Economic Benefits of Improving Mental Health

My year of might & power

When cops show up to a brawl at stalictites & you have to pretend it’s a dance-off

One day my tech journalism — instead of landlord ragebaiting — will get 5 million views

My friend’s moving out of his house due to a rental increase & he’s nailing as many nails into the wall as possible because the law says you can’t lose your bond over that

Through the course of this investigation, more than a dozen major Australian charities refused to disclose which data tools they use to profile givers. Crikey has named them.

Sweden and Germany slash aid budgets to focus on Ukraine and defence spending

New post from #Handala : Operation Octopus: Naftali Bennett Hacked More at : https://www.ransomlook.io/group/Handala #Ransomware

10 Aus examples of incentivising gambling with #facialrecognition & faceprint-trained #AI, primary sources: limewire.com/d/62lhH#N9as...

Why they want your face

It's cool how businesses can just do whatever they want with our biometric data. Going great. Let's give these tech companies more power. ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

Several Australian retailers have kept facial recognition technology (FRT) on despite the Australian Privacy Commissioner ruling Kmart and Bunnings’s use of the technology illegal, sparking concerns from computer scientists, unions and privacy advocates ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

How can you de-identify biometric data? I don’t think you can,” she said.

1/2🧵Defying OAIC, several retailers have kept facial recognition on. These data sellers, biometric platforms & FRT providers watch you shop & work. Huge thanks to @asherwolf.bsky.social, Dr Hassan Asghar, Dr Zofia Bednarz, Piotr Kulaga @drwaus.bsky.social & RAFFWU ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

+ after the unsuccessful attempt at removing "pro-terror" content from X's US servers, pivoted to syncing geofences with non-US regulators. I reported critically of pre-e2ee, device-based scanning etc, but also reckon she's blamed for impossible laws the gov wrote www.itnews.com.au/news/esafety...

Morton wins Walkley for “Mean Streak” www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

[friend mad you haven't called back] I told you bro, I've been scraping

Great article by @drjanetiller.bsky.social the Aus insurance sector is already feeding their members' data to AI to support claims processing, let's hope our gov can keep DNA out of them theconversation.com/life-insurer...

Thanks to FSU, 600 digital activists they supported & @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social from the @jacquilambie.bsky.social network, @information-age.bsky.social could quickly debunk the Gov's bogus "AI bots send FOI" claim, as Archie Milligan reports. When we work together, can protect our right to know!

In Feb, NDIA was one of several Corporate Commonwealth entities DTA encouraged to release AI Transparency statements, but didn't, here's why:

The wild thing is that certain sections of the media scold Gen Z like they used to scold Millennials, proving that the only real throughline is a hatred of young people.

Exclusive: Major Australian electricity, gas, and internet provider Origin Energy has confirmed a data breach involving payment details of more than 700 customers which were allegedly stolen by an employee, who attempted to transmit the data externally when they were terminated by the company.

MEDIA CALLOUT: looking for OSINT professionals &/or enthusiasts (of any level) to help &/or comment on an article tn message me either here, Signal (jeremynadel.86) or [email protected]

Advocacy groups and legal experts are demanding transparency around a new government tool being developed to score the needs of people with disability. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

Home Affairs blasted over unlawful automated visa cancellation www.canberratimes.com.au/story/907997...

Australian authorities are now accessing personal data from social media and email users in just days under an agreement with the United States, raising fresh questions about digital privacy and transparency. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

Incredible reporting, the type Western media weren't doing while IBM did the Holocaust

X-thread for the panel featuring @asherwolf.bsky.social, Jenny Miller, Felicity Button, Colleen Taylor. Hosted by Guardian reporter Chris Knaus who did so much to cover the issue for them. #PeopleVSRobodebt

La verificación de edad desencadena sobrecensura y bloqueos geográficos, con impactos desproporcionados y riesgos de privacidad para usuarios y plataformas. www.eff.org/es/deeplink...

A PRO-PEDOPHILE tactic to steal & monetise your personal info — remember it next time Meta rollout its next surveillance measure under the guise of "stopping CSAM" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Some of what went on with my appeal: • 'Appeal script crashed twice and did not record the outcome.' • 'Thomas was not sent any notification his payments had been suspended, only the final cancellation letter.' • 'his payments were cancelled [when] penalty period did not apply' A symphony of it.

In a bid to distract attention away from an unprecedented attack on government openness and transparency, @albomp.bsky.social’s Govt has made false statements regarding an AI #FOI bombardment of the eSafety Commissioner. Misleading talking points atop hypocrisy! 🤬 #auspol

Sydney Water failed to perform adequate due diligence before claiming there were no PFAS hotspots within its drinking water catchments, and governments failed to keep pace with the spread of “forever chemicals” in the environment, a parliamentary inquiry has found archive.md/2025.09.11-0...

Govt spent $101K of YOUR money on lawyers trying to keep a Maugean Skate brief from YOU. They lost the fight. Instead of rethinking their resistance to transparency, @albomp.bsky.social’s solution to balancing the books is to charge citizens $40 to receive an erroneous #FOI decision. 🤦‍♂️ #auspol

The correct response to bot orchestrated DDoS is *not to punish human access to freedom of information*

1/12🧵 Here’s how I disproved the Gov’s claim that 600 FOIs were “AI bot-generated” + insights on the #FOI system’s real problems from @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au @browne90.bsky.social Maria O'Sullivan Yee-Fui Ng & Sofia Verza ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

Bravely hiding the story from everyone u met on birthright before posting it

The ramifications of this case are larger for data rights in Australia than many realise

Australia's 3rd largest health insurer's privacy policy makes no mention of its data-sharing agreements with Woolworths, ING Bank & Qantas, but DOES reference using social media to predict health ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

Why Aus insurers feed members’ data to AI models, QBE, IAG, Resolution Life & more processing claims with AI ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

This is not normal. Other cities are rejecting biometric cctv

@markandrejevic.bsky.social said biometric identification's rapid expansion is being used to "claim that its use is normal and acceptable.”

Crazy how quickly this thing blew up (number 6 under App Store's Navigation category) Would you use a Myki inspector tracker? ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

Hey remember when we created a backlash against #MyHealthRecord in Australia? And then 2.5 million people opted out? This situation is why:

1/7 🧵 Why NSW Police switched off facial recognition tech — & how AI-based biometric profiling persists @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social & @suehigginson.bsky.social ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

1/7 🧵 Why NSW Police switched off facial recognition tech — & how AI-based biometric profiling persists @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social & @suehigginson.bsky.social ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

I ❤️ Melbourne