First ever privacy ruling to stop intimate internet searches being shared

It’s becoming a running joke; you have a conversation or you Google something and suddenly your feeds are flooded with ads and offers on the very same subject..what are the chances? . But what if the information being tracked  and shared online is about your fertility, choice of contraception or mental health? It’s a practice the Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind is taking on in a first ever ruling of its kind. Debut Tasmanian author Konrad Muller has been shortlisted for the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award, but in the increasingly cut-throat world of publishing, stories like his are more likely to be fiction than fact. He joins editor and researcher Alice Grundy to explain how the industry has become so pressured and crowded. From cracking some of biology’s toughest problems to opening new frontiers in treatment, AI is already transforming medicine – opening up a world of possibility ly in the lab and in frontline treatment.