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...

It’s become MUCH easier for cops to access social media data thru the Aus-US Cloud Act Agreement 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

Looking for Aus criminal defence lawyers who know or suspect a client was identified with facial recognition, Signal JeremyNadel.86

Homely couldn't tell @zacharias-szumer.bsky.social if there are "provisions requiring agents not to pass on costs to their clients" in the property listing platform's "cashback incentive scheme". www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Anyone know how to be motivated by things other than revenge?

Fast tracking a censorship bill is always troubling. TAKE IT DOWN is the wrong approach to helping people whose intimate images are shared without their consent.

Peter Dutton’s time in QLD Police is SO private RTI decisions neither confirm nor deny these docs, but if I want a job any potential employer can call all my past employers; WE/voters are his BOSS; information asymmetry dictates every moment of our degrading lives www.oic.qld.gov.au/__data/asset...

Gov taps Microsoft's #AI chief, who implemented NSW Police's 'Insights platform' to supercharge corporate uptake of AI: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

[email protected] whose 2-part investigation into neurodivergent schoolkids forced into boxes, cages & nets won #UTS #CentralNewsMedia's top award on Wednesday. Great to see #SBS investing in hardhitting research like this: #NDIS #Disability www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

How does AI impact #NDIS? #ABF are "predicting risks in visa program[s]" & #ATO detecting fraud with it, but @drwaus.bsky.social, @kelpieunicorns.bsky.social & others said a new AI Transparency regime has revealed little about inputs, use cases & risks. ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

AI transparency standards need to address the data inputs and not just outputs. Comments from our Chair, Lizzie O'Shea: "Such models are fundamentally built upon mass invasion of privacy and any policy intervention must reckon with this." ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

I cannot trust the new #NDIS budget approach when I’m still trying to substantiate evidence for the existing Autism TSP’s problematic assumptions about my needs. As Justin Warren put it, “trust is earned…too few agencies want to do the work to earn that trust.” @jeremynadel8.bsky.social #Auspol

Hoping to confirm if #NDIS participants & applicants included in #HWLEbsworth leak have been told yet which records were included. If you or anyone else knows: Signal JeremyNadel.86 www.itnews.com.au/news/644-ndi...

Birrer used only the example of models that detect identity-theft when Allman-Payne asked what data the AIs were trained on ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

Senator @pennyallmanpayne.com asked Centrelink about the AI models' training data & debt & fraud applications. Insights from @maximumwelfare.bsky.social & Dr Scarlet Wilcock from @admscentre.org.au ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

Centrelink trialling AI in fraud detection & debt prioritisation, I spoke to @asherwolf.bsky.social & Justin Warren about it. Tip me off about high risk AI & automation usecases on Signal: JeremyNadel.86 ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...