Burning Platforms

As researchers are locked out of digital platforms, we contemplate a new era of control and secrecy, with responsible tech academic Gina Neff.

She joins our panel of  Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie OShea, Choice’s digital campaign lead Rafi Alam and Peter Lewis from Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.

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Open AI's Sam Altman has launched a new product line with a new business model and a new philosophy. But do they all line up? 

We also cover

·      The fallout from 7-Eleven’s privacy breach 

·      Misinformation and disinformation laws 

·      And  Mark Zuckerberg’s new Metaverse glasses.

Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.

Listen to our live virtual town hall briefing to discuss the Federal Government’s much anticipated plans for privacy reform and the launch o the Privacy Now campaign - https://privacynow.org.au/.

With:

Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind

Human Technology Institute director Ed Santow

Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea

• The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov

In this week's episode if Burning Platforms, the panel dives into the product liability of companion apps with consumer law academia, Jeannie Peterson.

Also this week, they touch on:

Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.

Don't forget to subscribe to The Town Crier, the official newsletter of the Centre for the Public Square and Burning Platforms podcast.

Forget intelligent machines waging war on humans, the real threat could be the amount of energy and water data processing centres are sucking up in the service of AI.

Gordon Noble from UTS’s Institute of Sustainable Futures has been crunching the numbers and it makes for alarming reading.

He joins our regular panel of Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Centre of the Public Square convenor Peter Lewis.

Also this week:

• Has the US Supreme Court just granted Big Tech a giant leave pass?

Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.

Don't forget to subscribe to The Town Crier, the official newsletter of the Centre for the Public Square and Burning Platforms podcast: https://the-town-crier-2.ghost.io/

This week on Burning Platforms, our regular panel of Essential's Peter Lewis and Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea share a special extended interview with Taiwan’s inaugural Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang and Radical xChange founder Glen Weyl about their new collaborative book, ‘Plurality.’

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Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.