In our final episode of 2024 we unpack the recent Senate Report into the Adoption of AI in Australia with Committee Chair Senator Tony Sheldon.

We also look at:

Woolworth's industrial dispute over workplace surveillance

Why Meta is building a deep sea cable to India

How TikTok was gamed to deliver an election boil over in Romania

With regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, HealthEngine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita's Peter Lewis.

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Burning Platforms dives deep into the common ground between national security and individual privacy with cybersecurity expert Miah Hammond-Errey, host of the Technology and Security podcast.

Also this week:

* Bunnings wrapped over facial recognition

* Trump’s crypto bonanza

* and could the Social Media Ban have a silver lining?

Panelists:

* Digital Rights Watch chair, Lizzie O’Shea, 

* Health Engine CEO, Dan Stinton

* and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis

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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.

Also this week:

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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.

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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:

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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?

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