Adelaide City Council is yet to receive formal assurance from South Australia Police that it will not use the facial recognition capabilities of Adelaide’s planned CCTV network until laws are developed.
In November 2021, the council passed […]
Governments and private companies can still abuse all of the data they collected in the name of Covid.
During the pandemic, governments all over the world rolled out data tracking technologies, especially contact-tracing apps.
According to technology policy experts, […]
Departures come as Ibac probes classified information leaks and has three outstanding reports with potential political fallout in state election year
The Victorian corruption watchdog has shed almost half its legal team in the past six months, amid internal investigations into leaks of classified information and ongoing morale issues.
Victorians are being monitored by a new secretive government agency […]
Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk has found that Clearview AI, Inc. breached Australians’ privacy by scraping their biometric information from the web and disclosing it through a facial recognition tool.
The determination follows a joint investigation by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and the UK’s […]
Rational public policymaking considers both sides of any proposed policy: benefits and costs. When the costs of lockdown policy have been raised during the COVID era, people have sometimes assumed that those costs are about: “just the economy”, implying that “the economy” is something separable from human health. Yet there are real health […]
Lockdowns have caused at least 36 times more harms in Australia than any benefits.
“untargeted lockdowns allowed the virus to wreak havoc since the government took its eye off the ball. Eighty per cent of the government’s effort went in “controlling” the broader society instead of focusing on aged […]
From Solicitor Peter Fam with judgement below.
A judgment from Parker J in the Supreme Court last week should cause tertiary institutions to think twice before delaying or blocking the progress of students whose views on politically charged issues (in this case Government handling of Covid-19) differ to the mainstream.
An industrial relations commissioner in Queensland has recommended an unfair dismissal case involving a health worker who was sacked for failing to comply with COVID-19 […]
A Sydney councillor accepted bags filled with a combined $170,000 in cash from a property developer in return for his “help” regarding two multimillion-dollar developments in Hurstville, a corruption inquiry has heard.
The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption is investigating whether former Georges River and Hurstville councillors, Vince Badalati and […]
