All Episodes

#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

#62 Cha-ching! The cash flows for privacy and cyber

#61 How to catch a robot

#60 The creepy test

#59 Say it to my face: Tackling online abuse

#58 Like nabbing Capone for tax evasion

#57 Tech on ice

#56 Privacy is dead

#55 Casualties of the AI arms race

#54 No harm, no foul?

#53 The most cyber secure nation

#52 A duty of loyalty (with Woodrow Hartzog)

#51 The wait is over

#50 Swiping left on techno-carceral solutionism

#49 The boiling frog

#48 Ghosts in the machine

#47 Saving facial recognition

#46 Leavin' on a jet plane

#45 Setting the record straight

#44 This year in digital trust

#43 The privacy blindspot

#42 When do gooders do bad

#41 Choppy seas and safe harbours

#40 Twitter goes from dawn to Musk

#39 To pay or not to pay

#38 Rent-seeking data hoarders

#37 A fine balance

#36 Hipster privacy shall defeat the data hoovering robots

#35 Once more unto the breach (the Optus one, that is)

#34 What is data ethics?

#33 When the law is not enough

#32 Internet Idol - a contest for the future of cyberspace

#31 Our data is girt by sea

#30 You can call me AI

#29 Unscrambling the cyber strategy egg + the moths still drawn to the flame of facial recognition

#28 When knowing you is not enough

#27 Privacy in Israel

#26 Arrival at the promised land or a deal with the devil? Federal privacy law lands in the US

#25 When Big Tech feels the squeeze

#24 The problem with random acts of kindness on TikTok

#23 Breaking down Twitter's stoush with India, and the secret sauce of scams

#22 A glimmer of hope or a return to bad ideas? The latest on privacy reform

#21 The lowdown on facial recognition (part II) - how bad is it, really?

#20 The lowdown on facial recognition (part I) and how to talk with robots that have feelings

#19 Safeguarding our history and national identity, and the fight for anonymity

#18 Slicing up the sausage of tech policy and regulation - what goes into it and how it ought to be made in the future

#17 Tech policy under a newly elected government and why childrens privacy needs more attention

#16 "Privacy Unbound" - an interview with Professor Ari Ezra Waldman

#15 Public interest journalism in the era of big tech platforms and the poster child of bad tech startups (reprise)

#14 Roe Vs Wade overturn from the perspective of privacy and the Facebook's apparent data self-own

#13 Tech policy implications of Elon's Twitter play and the role of the public service in government tech projects

#12 Breaking down IAPP Global Privacy Summit keynotes - Tim Cook and Lina Khan

#11 Electioneering when you have all the data, Clearview AI leaps for yet another branch, and a more thoughtful way forward for AI in policing

#10 Budget winners and losers (cyber, privacy, in that order), hack tha police and Big Tech shadow lobbying

#9 The cyber war that wasn't (yet), competing AI worldviews and Meta under fire for pushing crypto scams

#8 Warzones as a playground for tech startups, the challenges of content moderation and a better way forward for tech policymaking

#7 Facial recognition, social media trolling and funding the OAIC

#6 Another digital platforms discussion paper, a review of the news media bargaining code, crypto and tech policy lessons from Ukraine

#5 Rushing critical infrastructure, data breach statistics and Rod Sims legacy

#4 ABC's mandatory logins, a news media bargaining code payday and the ASIO chief on transparency and government surveillance

#3 The IRS facial recognition windback and the tech regulation stampede

#2 The not-actually-about-trolling Anti-Trolling bill, AFP facial recognition ruling and the future of e-voting

#1 Unmasking the Government's anti-troll reforms, the UK vs facial recognition and the role of consultants in government tech projects

CDR score for the Big 4 banks, NSW vs Victoria on responsible innovation, and debating Google's billion dollar fund

Critical technologies, a debate over principles and the end of a libertarian fantasy