Jul 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Lucie Krahulcova is an international digital rights activist and Executive Director of Digital Rights Watch. Lizzie O’Shea is a writer, lawyer and co-founder and chair of Digital Rights Watch. “It should worry us that we are losing rights as surveillance systems grow...
Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
If we are to think of alternatives to the heedless, vampire-like drive of technology capitalism, there are examples from history that are worthy of consideration. In looking back we should not dwell on the elites, who tend to dominate the social and cultural life of...
Mar 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Published in the Overland Sunday, 14 March, 2021. By Lizzie O’Shea, Rebecca Giblin, Kate Seear and Alexandra Dane. Promising Young Woman boldly examines male entitlement and female rage from a woman’s perspective. By which we mean: it’s not simply a story about...
Mar 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Published in The Saturday Paper on Sunday March 13, 2021.
Mar 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Published in Nikkei Asia on Sunday, March 13, 2021. In the #MeToo era, it is now clearer than ever that sexual assault is not some irregular occurrence, but is actually a function of the structural dominance of men over women. It is a consequence of a world in which...
Mar 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
As published in The Saturday Paper March 11 2021 Public policy should not be left to the cult of personality, no matter how amicable the current eSafety Commissioner may be. The best protection against unintended consequences is for this legislation to be surgically...
Mar 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Published in Baffler March 2021 In August 2019, Facebook settled an eight-year legal dispute with a French schoolteacher. The complaint, made by Frédéric Durand, accused the platform of deleting his account because he posted an image of Gustave Courbet’s iconic oil...
Feb 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Published in Overland Thursday, 18 February, 2021. Facebook has followed through on its promise, banning news content on its platform in response to the media bargaining code currently before parliament. Although it was something that Google had talked about most...
Dec 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Published in the Overland. Sunday, 14 December, 2020. The proposed news media bargaining code tabled last week has been praised by many journalists. It’s also deeply flawed. The scheme requires that organisations apply to the Australian Media and Communications...
Sep 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
One of the central themes of our COVID-19 world has been the fortification of borders in the name of containing the virus, further solidifying the nexus between the tech industry and government. As borders in the digital century have become more dependent on bytes and...
Aug 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
[UPDATE: Jean-Sebastien Jacques resigned on 11 September 2020] When Anglo-Australian mining multinational Rio Tinto blew up two 46,000-year-old Aboriginal rock shelters in May, most people could be forgiven for believing it was not a conspiracy but a horrendous...
Jul 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
When Singapore took the lead in developing a contact tracing app to help curb the spread of COVID-19, many other nations were quick to follow, using the health crisis to justify increased surveillance. But the moment gave citizens a chance to observe their governments...
Mar 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
A SURPRISING NUMBER OF PEOPLE start their working life at McDonald’s. Paul Ryan claimed flipping burgers was central to his understanding of the American Dream. Pharrell Williams was fired three times from the chain. James Franco penned a mildly off-putting love...
Mar 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
At 10am on a Saturday, the Epping Shopping Plaza is bustling with screaming children, pensioners pushing their shopping jeeps, and parents waiting impatiently as coffee machines whir. Waxy supermarket produce gleams under fluorescent lights, home wares are stacked...
Feb 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
One of the common tropes of the digital age is that we should be worried about the AI robots that are coming to kill our jobs, kill our relationships, and ultimately even kill us. The problem is articulated often as a dystopian imagining, which we need to arrest...
Jan 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Australia is your future echo of climate catastrophe. Between four and five million hectares have burned in the last six months, an area about the size of the Netherlands, or just between the size of Maryland and West Virginia. Dozens of people have died, hundreds of...
Dec 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Discussions about digital privacy often evoke images of whistle-blowers, journalists, and intelligence agencies. But beyond this, it can sometimes feel as though the business model of corporate data mining presents few negative consequences in our daily lives. The...
Sep 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
The regulation of technology capitalism is now a mainstream topic of discussion. Privacy scandals such as the misuse of Facebook data by Cambridge Analytica, the rise of right-wing extremism, and the diminishing quality of public spaces in the digital age have...
