Since Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, there is more interest about the extent to which the internet, digital platforms and big data is being used by sectional interests to gain political power. Manipulative techniques are being applied to democracy, voting behaviours and public political sentiment. There has also been unprecidented foreign intervention in elections. Who are the new power brokers? How is your vote affected? How is Australia affected? Vanessa Teague is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at at the University of Melbourne. A legitimate hacker, she has demonstrated that virtually no encrypted system is secure. At the same time she has a passionate commitment to people’s ownership of their own data and to democracy. Vanessa has been invited to appear before several parliamentary inquiries into elections at the state and federal level, to answer questions on electronic voting.