The teen social media ban hasn't begun but already Australians have been exposed in a social media platform's ID breach.
The privacy commissioner says it "goes to many of the concerns that Australians already hold about the looming age assurance scheme."
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I once had an FRT vendor tell me that facial recognition would be great at weddings. It could tell you who the guests are and how they know the couple. Or you know, you could talk to the other guests and find out 🙃
So many tech solutions in search of a problem.
Portrait photo of Kate Bower with text saying Official Panelist at SXSW Sydney
Delighted to be speaking at @sxswsydney.com again. This time with the excellent Lizzie O’Shea, DRW, Sarah Davies,(A&M F) and Rispah from Telstra Foundation Youth Advisory Council. We’ll be discussing what the internet would be like if it was designed by and for children.
25 years ago I worked in a shop. By virtue of its central location, we had a lot of celebrities come in to buy stuff. Without hesitation I can tell you that Henri Szeps was the kindest, the most charming, and most polite of them all. A genuinely good human. Rest in power.
By the time a child turns 13 more than 72 million pieces of data have been collected about them, so we’re passing children and young people the mic, to hear what protections they want from a Children’s Online Privacy Code www.oaic.gov.au/news/blog/su...
What would the internet be like if it was designed by and for children?
Today is the last day of voting for SXSW Sydney's conference track, and we'd love your support to host this conversation alongside OAIC's @katebower.bsky.social: publicvoting.sxswsydney.com/profile/ca36...
I feel sad for the young people. So much incredible music out there and they’re stuck listening to this stuff on repeat
At the risk of someone replying ‘ok boomer’, am I listening to Triple J #Hottest100 or the TikTok #Hottest100?
Excited to be joining the OAIC at the end of Jan to lead the privacy reform implementation task force
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Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
Delighted to be featured on Kendra Vant’s substack, Data Runs Deep. It’s one of my fave newsletters on AI open.substack.com/pub/kendrava...
Controversial opinion - Melbourne’s A1 Bakery is not a patch on Sydney’s Earlwood Lebanese Bakery. Something’s actually are better in Sydney.
Whistleblowers raising concerns about harmful digital platforms and holding tech companies to account are supported by a new practical guide—Technology-Related Whistleblowing—built in collaboration with @humanrightshrlc.bsky.social @reset.tech @psst-org.bsky.social
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All I want for Christmas is some humans to buy stuff I don’t need from ok? And some rational thinking from the businesses trying to jam AI into everything everywhere. Please just stop.
Not that I blame her but the staff member didn’t check a single error message - people could’ve been shoving anything in their bags and some people did just walk out without paying because the wait was so long for ‘assistance’.
Popped into Kmart for Xmas shopping, only option to pay was the AI-driven self serve checkout. Of course I got an error that needed a human to check, in fact all 7 checkouts had errors. 1 poor overworked employee running around fixing the mistakes caused by AI. So much productivity!
Facebook have a help page dedicated to checking whether you or your friends logged into the "This is Your Digital Life" app: www.facebook.com/help/1873665...
Me: as of last night, I’ve seen 25 bands play live this year
Also me: why am I so tired all the time
Australian #lawyers “cannot safely enter” confidential or commercially sensitive information into public generative #AI engines like ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, authorities in three states have warned in issuing explicit guidelines on genAI’s use in law.
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Thanks @miahhe.bsky.social for sharing your thoughts with me and @drwaus.bsky.social
In the words of civil rights activist John Lewis “never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”
I wear my troublemaker badge with pride!
Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
Surely Shortland Street is still on?
Does anyone?
I heard this is a good place to talk about taxing the rich, breaking up big tech, and ending Washington corruption.
'Venntel takes location data from smartphones, either through ordinary apps installed on them or through the advertising ecosystem, and provides a data feed to other companies who sell location tracking technology to the government or sells the data directly itself.'
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Mira Murati: "we're about to see immense potential with abundance of intelligence, energy, and even meaning"
Abundance of energy and meaning! The latter is missing from this video. And of course she has to preach that energy is abundant. Because their tech depends on it. It's like a cult.
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Don’t tell anyone but I’ve been using Bing since it came default on my new laptop. But I suppose that’s rather the point the ACCC is making. Default browsers and search are bad for competition and consumers are unlikely to switch (including consumer advocates who know better)
OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR SPOTIFY ITS DECEMBER WE KNOW YOU HAVE THE 2024 WRAPPED IN THERE WITH YOU
My review of Zahra Stardust’s ‘Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation and Resistance’ for @overlandjournal.bsky.social is up today. It’s a potent work of research and storytelling, and is also super relevant to the current state of australian tech policy debate. overland.org.au/2024/12/plea...
