Jan 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the market for artificial intelligence and its associated industries are over inflated. In 2025, just five hyperscalers—Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle—accounted for a capital...
Oct 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Listen Apple Podcast Spotify A lawyer who has helped transfer $5.5 billion from corporations to their victims – an author – the co-founder and chair of Digital Rights Watch. Today, I’m joined by LIZZIE O’SHEA and we’ll be discussing her...
Oct 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea In August of 2024, which perhaps feels like more than a lifetime ago for observers of American politics, Judge Amit P. Mehta found Google to be in breach of U.S. antitrust law. “After having carefully considered and weighed the witness...
Oct 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea Photo by Cash Macanaya on Unsplash AI has been pitched as the great solution of the modern age – but the unfettered growth of this new technology could come at the expense of everything we hold dear. In recent years, Artificial...
Oct 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Listen ABC Radio National Peter Lewis and Lizzie O’Shea from Digital Rights Watch will be running live panels around Australia asking ‘How Can Democracy Survive AI?’ We unpack how bots, deep fakes and misinformation undermine electoral...
Sep 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Listen transistor.fm Apple Podcast Spotify YouTube In this episode of the Technology & Security podcast, host Dr. Miah Hammond-Errey is joined by lawyer and digital rights activist, Lizzie O’Shea. This episode explores Australia’s technology debates from a...
Jun 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Listen Acast Apple Podcast In recent years, many major companies, both in Australia and around the world, have conspicuously failed to protect their customers’ data, leading to personal details being shared on the dark web. Global platform...
Jun 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Listen Greens List Apple Podcast Spotify This week we welcome Lizzie O’Shea, principal lawyer at Maurice Blackburn, advocate and author. Lizzie is an internationally renowned expert on digital privacy rights and the intersection between technology, privacy and the...
Apr 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Samantha Floreani and Lizzie O’Shea Photograph: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock There are once again calls for the government to Do Something about misinformation online, following the recent stabbings at Bondi Junction and the immediate...
Mar 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Listen ABC Radio National A trip to Bunnings, a Medibank or Optus account, a new smart car or vacuum, every facet of our daily lives is now up for grabs. So should privacy continue to be our individual responsibility, or is it time for governments do more? This...
Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea ‘It’s moving to hear,’ writes Jennifer Mills recently for this publication regarding the new national cultural policy and the place of artists in it, ‘that we are essential workers… [that w]e want to know our work is meaningful, that...
Nov 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
BY Lizzie O’Shea Image: Denys Nevozhai When we talk about the influence of Silicon Valley, we often imagine how the design culture and business models influence our communities and identities in online spaces. In Paris Marx’s new book, Road to...
Nov 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea and Lilly Ryan Image: Esther Vargas At the risk of giving Elon Musk any more of what he wants—for people to talk about Elon Musk—his purchase of Twitter provides an opportunity to reflect upon the governance of online spaces. As yet another...
Feb 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea and Samantha Floreani Image: Flickr When Labor announced a commitment to a ‘pen licence for the digital age’ for young people, it’s easy to see why it led to round mocking going on across social media. The idea sounded like it had been...
Oct 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Reimagining Our Digital Future Nov 30, 2021 Peter Lewis, Jordan Guiao I wrote a chapter in this book about the Paris Commune and how we need to invest in human capacity as part of building an online public square. A new blueprint for a more democratic digital space...
Oct 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
View the video on Vimeo Early in 2021, the platforms Google and Facebook came under intense scrutiny due to ACCC’s new directives. The ACCC’s platform regulations threw up debates around what is a platform, what their purpose should be, and what role they play...
Oct 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Digital Rights Watch joined the online RightsCon 2021 program to host a discussion on Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code, its ambition, its flaws, and alternative ideas for how we might genuinely be able to rebalance the internet economy. This discussion is...
Sep 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Phillip Adams on Late Night Live More than ninety pieces of national security legislation have come before the Australian Parliament since 9/11, including the latest Identify and Disrupt Bill. What powers does the latest legislation give us and is it fit for...
Sep 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea and Mark Andrejevic It is now six months since Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code was passed into law, and it presents an opportunity to assess the impact of this controversial piece of legislation. The Code entrenches large tech companies...
Jul 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea and Susie Allanson Twenty years ago this week, security guard Steve Rogers was shot and killed inside the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne. Abortion rights campaigner, Dr Bertram Wainer, had established the clinic in 1973 to provide...
