All Episodes

#162 Pixelated privacy - the state of online tracking and advertising with Emma Blackmore

#161 'Pub test for privacy' a step closer - breaking down Australia's new draft privacy laws

#160 Much harm, but no foul? Breaking down the privacy regulator's Qantas data breach ruling

#159 Cyber breakout - What frontier AI means for cyber risk (part two)

#158 Cyber breakout - What frontier AI means for cyber risk (part one)

#157 AI pendulum - How Pope Leo, Trump and the Australian public have swung sentiment

#156 False choice, real harm - how power asymmetries and dark patterns erode privacy

#155 Australia's AI moment - Lee Hickin, National AI Centre

#154 Shattered shield - Product liability rulings crack social media's legal armour

#153 Labour pains - How AI is reshaping the workforce

#152 Cute widget or security time bomb? The story behind website chatbots

#151 Trust is built here - Privacy Awareness Week with Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind

#150 Have your say - The Children's Online Privacy Code with Dr Kate Bower

#149 AI in the kill chain: Breaking down Anthropic v Pentagon

#148 OAIC v Bunnings - Green light for a facial recognition free for all?

#147 2026 preview - Looking back to look ahead

#146 Australia's grand plan for AI

#145 Intimacy on display - why your chatbot conversations aren't so private

#144 The era of enforcement begins - breaking down privacy's first ever civil penalty

#143 A debate about facial recognition

#142 Sovereign AI explained

#141 The boss is watching - on the rise of workplace surveillance

#140 The dark side of AI companions

#139 AI or bust - Has Australia's Productivity Commission bought into the hype?

#138 Trust hackers - the MO of cybercrime groups like Scattered Spider

#137 Top spin - what good comms looks like after a data breach

#136 Age check - how plans to verify ages of social media users are faring

#135 Platform probe - Managing tensions around researcher access to data

#134 AI slop is taking over the internet

#133 AI mood drift - the swing away from regulation

#132 No opt out - Why every election campaign is a spamfest

#131 Dr Rys Farthing on evidence based digital policy and the Children's Online Privacy Code

#130 Trump's trade war hits Aus tech policy

#129 Rattling the can - Charities put on notice about privacy

#128 See you in court! Unpacking 20 years of Victorian privacy caselaw

#127 New playbook - inside the privacy regulator's plan for sustained impact

#126 Hard pivot - world leaders walk away from AI safety

#125 DeepSeek - Chill out and stay vigilant

#124 Unfriending the truth - Behind Meta's decision to end fact-checking

#123 Good tech tidings - an optimistic recap of 2024

#122 Big ban theory - Why Australia’s social media ban for kids is raising eyebrows

#121 Putting the "I" in AI - How your personal information powers artificial intelligence

#120 The auction of you - How your data is sold daily to the highest bidder

#119 Not just another AI safety standard

#118 Still waiting for Terminator - how the debate on existential AI risk has shifted

#117 A reform story in two tranches - our reaction to new privacy laws

#116 Meet "Tex" - Australia's rootinest tootinest digital identity system

#115 How the US election could shape privacy, AI and tech policy

#114 Adam Ford on the evolution of the modern privacy professional

#113 The small business exemption - sensible carve-out or privacy blackspot?

#112 In the shoes of the regulator

#111 Chandni Gupta on dark patterns and the need for safer digital products

#110 The right to be forgotten

#109 Dr Katharine Kemp on the intersection of privacy and competition regulation

#108 Take it down! Australia's eSafety Commissioner takes on X

#107 Power up your privacy with Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind

#106 Here we go again - will the latest US Federal privacy law get across the line?

#105 Never mind Skynet, the algorithms are already in control

#104 Rotten to the core? DOJ lines up Apple

#103 App for sale? Tiktok faces US ban

#102 It's complicated - Dr James Meese on Meta's withdrawal from news

#101 Go dark or go home - Unscrambling the encryption debate

#100 Reflections on 100 - the lessons that popped

#99 Supermarket wizards - How tech entrenches dominance

#98 Droppin' docs - A primer on doxing

#97 The rise of the Neo Luddites

#96 Make it till you fake it - the growing problem of synthetic media

#95 Walk this way - a dive into the rise of biometrics

#94 Baby steps - the government makes its case for AI regulation

#93 Australians for sale - how data brokers expose us all

#92 Trust and safety: The most important tech job you’ve never heard of

#91 The 2023 debrief

#90 The human side of cybercrime - with Dr Jonathan Lusthaus

#89 Who's in charge here? The Altman/OpenAI saga explained

#88 Bossware, solidarity and the fight for worker privacy

#87 Is it time to give up on privacy policies?

#86 Johanna Weaver - the future of tech policy

#85 Taking identity digital

#84 Shame! The fragile power of social license

#83 X marks the spot for the privacy skills shortage

#82 The modern car is a lemon (for privacy)

#81 At last! The Government responds on privacy reform

#80 An interview with Peter Warren Singer

#79 The long and winding road to age verification

#78 Scraping for privacy

#77 Stop press! Does privacy really inhibit good journalism?

#76 AI regulation in Australia - the ideas are in

#75 Targeted advertising - the internet's grand bargain or its original sin?

#74 Angelene Falk: Talking community attitudes with the Information and Privacy Commissioner

#73 Research on misinformation. Misinformation on research

#72 Location! Location! Location!

#71 Pulling at Threads - a breakdown of Meta's new app

#70 A face in the crowd

#69 AI mini-series - Part 4 - Talking about talking about AI

#68 AI mini-series - Part 3 - How to regulate AI

#67 AI mini-series - Part 2 - The business response to AI harms

#66 AI mini-series - Part 1 - What is AI and what are its harms?

#65 Max Schrems, the man who dealt a blow to US spying

#64 The hard problem of age verification

#63 GDPR scorecard - Five years on