Woolworths AI cameras won’t let shoppers pay for groceries unless their trolley is empty
Woolworths […]
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05, 2023
Netflix Lost a Million Subscribers Over Password Policing
Streaming giant Netflix announced plans earlier this year to curb password sharing, where multiple people use the same credentials to log in to an account. It said the widespread practice cuts into its revenue and announced plans to start banning accounts in March. […]
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05, 2023
English judge rejects damages claim brought on behalf of 1.6m people based on NHS data transferred to Google
A judge of the High Court of England and Wales has dismissed a representative claim for misuse of private information brought against Google UK arising from […]
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05, 2023
8% of Australia’s children are now disabled! The sickest generation of children ever…
8 out of 100 students are now on the NDIS.
Over 15 years ago, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released a figure from a […]
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05, 2023
NSW Health ‘erased’ data used in weekly Covid surveillance reports
Like many Australians, Xin Yin Ooi found herself “obsessed” with weekly Covid updates — but then she noticed something strange.
Cooped up during Covid lockdowns, Xin Yin […]
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05, 2023
Oz Media Complicity in Policing the Opinion Corridor
Like the Overton window of political possibilities, what the Swedes call the “opinion corridor” channels the range of acceptable speech. Among the many startling aspects of the topsy-turvy world that we have lived through since early 2020 is the extent to which […]
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05, 2023
Elon Musk’s Neuralink wins FDA approval for human study of brain implants
Elon Musk’s Neuralink received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its first-in-human clinical trial, a critical milestone […]
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05, 2023
The full list of IT projects in the 2023-24 federal budget
From largest to smallest.
With an expected $2 billion ICT and digital spend in the next financial year alone, the stage was set for a large […]
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05, 2023
The Online Safety Bill is a model for stripping citizens of their privacy
Britain is writing the playbook for dictators
During my two decades in tech I’ve seen governments manufacture public outrage to serve their desire for control more times than I can count. There’s a predictable pattern […]
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05, 2023
UK online content bill could quietly enable facial recognition
Research reportedly shows that the inclusion of software as part of the UK’s proposed Online Safety Bill could be used for facial recognition, a function not covered in the legislation.
The bill‘s stated […]