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

Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps Apple has released a scaremongering, self-serving warning aimed at the Australian government, claiming that Australians will be overrun by a parade of digital horribles if Australia follows the Europe...

Apple says that Australians are too stupid to choose their own apps. We respectfully disagree.

NIB denies using social media to predict health Should users be more careful about what they publicly post?

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...

Scott Morrison is getting Australia's highest honour despite a laundry list of scandals and embarrassments Media have been circulated a list of every Australian set to get a King’s Birthday honour. Scott Morrison — whose legacy includes robodebt, multiple ministries and habitual lying — is the latest politician to be given the award.

Scott Morrison will be given Australia’s highest award for service as part of the King’s Birthday honours. The awardee list is currently embargoed, but Crikey has obtained and is choosing to report on it.

Why insurers feed members’ data to AI models QBE, IAG, Resolution Life processing claims with AI.

Australian insurers have been busy adding clauses to their privacy policies to inform customers their data has been fed to AI models.

Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

Why insurers feed members’ data to AI models QBE, IAG, Resolution Life processing claims with AI.

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

Imagine how modern computer vision would have been used if it was around when Robert Doyle was trying to kick out rough sleepers

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.”

+ interviews with the families of deceased Neuralink monkeys

If you can help me find a tech angle I'd be very grateful!

Popular app tracks Myki ticket inspectors Unofficial app scores 10,000 downloads, hits Apple charts.

Crazy how quickly this thing blew up (number 6 under App Store's Navigation category)

Would you use a Myki inspector tracker?

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

NSW Police switch off Cognitec facial recognition Aging algorithm raised bias concerns.

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...

7/7 🧵 Some of these biometric identification capabilities were already enabled over the AI 'Insights' platform that Microsoft deployed in 2021, leaving NSW’s artificial intelligence committee concerned. NSW Police has said Insights can even detect a person’s gait

6/7 🧵Facial recognition will likely return in a system that profiles suspects using additional biometrics like tattoos & scars. NSW Police said late last year that it was still procuring its “Integrated Biometric Platform” first revealed in 2021

5/7 🧵Because NSW Police have not updated the Cognitec facial recognition system since commissioning it in 2011, it is much more biased & less accurate than the updates NIST tests in quarterly reports

4/7 🧵 The 14-year-old Cognitec-based facial recognition system turned off in February when concerns peaked — inc criticism of Cognitec’s demographic bias + the publication of a gov watchdog’s audit warning NSW Police about facial recognition tech’s risks

3/7 🧵 And note that these stats don’t include its use in real time, which NSW Police has enabled by adding 'persons of interest' to the watchlists of third party orgs that run facial recognition over live streams. Source: NSW Ombudsman’s Compendium of ADM systems

2/7 🧵Firstly, credit to NSW MPs Abigail Boyd & Sue Higginson who’ve used questions on notice (QoN) to get key stats & details on facial recognition tech — inc its rapid expansion

NSW Police switch off Cognitec facial recognition Aging algorithm raised bias concerns.

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...

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Australia's real estate industry has pumped $70 million into Homely, but is it playing fair? A property listing company has raised more than $70 million from the real estate sector and offered agents cashback incentives to help it challenge Australia's reigning duopoly. But some experts say t...

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...

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