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AI hyperscalers need to restore trust—here’s how

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 investment of $399 billion, which will rise to over $600 billion annually in coming years.

Digital Rights Activist Lizzie O’Shea Knows How to Change the Future

LIZZIE O’SHEA discussing her digital rights activism, (which impacts the rights of artists), the value of art in changing political conversations, and how to fight back against everything in the 21st century.

Antitrust Issues – Tech regulation under Trump 2.0

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.

On its current trajectory, AI is inconsistent with democracy, sustainability, and autonomy

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.

How will AI affect our democracy?

We unpack how bots, deep fakes and misinformation undermine electoral integrity and trust in institutions, and ask: is giving too much rope to big tech a folly?

Copyright, class action and cybersecurity… Shaping our digital future with Lizzie O’Shea

This episode explores Australia’s technology debates from a security and legal lens—addressing copyright, creativity, AI, and the legal structures, including class action, that shape society and security.

Lizzie O’Shea on why digital rights are human rights

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 companies have facilitated the spread of disinformation and misinformation, while their algorithms have contributed to the fragmentation and polarisation of society.

William & Lonsdale Podcast: 52

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 law. She has worked & studied internationally, including getting a Master’s from Columbia University and now specialises in class actions, recently leading the class action against tech giant Uber.

We must target the root cause of misinformation. We cannot fact check our way out of this

There are once again calls for the government to Do Something about misinformation online, following the recent stabbings at Bondi Junction and the immediate spread of speculation and false claims on social media.

What does the internet know about you?

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?

Freeing the arts from the markets: a reading of Chokepoint Capitalism

‘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…

Reclaiming our cities: on Paris Marx’s Road to Nowhere

In Paris Marx’s new book, Road to Nowhere, it becomes plain that the influence of tech industry is not confined to cyberspace, but reaches into our lived environment in insidious and powerful ways.

The fall of Twitter and the work of creating democratic social spaces

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.

Online safety begins with participation

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 Public Square Project

Reimagining Our Digital Future. A new blueprint for a more democratic digital space.

Creative Directions 2021: Public infrastructure for the digital town square

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...