The tech industry is pitching data mining and new infrastructure as the key to national prosperity. But will it deliver? And if so, for whom?

Tech Council of Australia CEO, Damian Kassabgi joins regular panelists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis for the latest episode of Burning Platforms.

The show also covers:

fresh concerns over age verification

the creepy rise of intimate AI companions

And Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa’s address to the National Press Club

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