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#64 The hard problem of age verification

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#63 GDPR scorecard - Five years on

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

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#61 How to catch a robot

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#60 The creepy test

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#59 Say it to my face: Tackling online abuse

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#58 Like nabbing Capone for tax evasion

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#57 Tech on ice

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#56 Privacy is dead

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#55 Casualties of the AI arms race

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#54 No harm, no foul?

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#53 The most cyber secure nation

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#52 A duty of loyalty (with Woodrow Hartzog)

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#51 The wait is over

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#50 Swiping left on techno-carceral solutionism

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#49 The boiling frog

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#48 Ghosts in the machine

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#47 Saving facial recognition

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#46 Leavin' on a jet plane

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#45 Setting the record straight

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#44 This year in digital trust

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#43 The privacy blindspot

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#42 When do gooders do bad

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#41 Choppy seas and safe harbours

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#40 Twitter goes from dawn to Musk

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#39 To pay or not to pay

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#38 Rent-seeking data hoarders

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#37 A fine balance

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#36 Hipster privacy shall defeat the data hoovering robots

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

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#34 What is data ethics?

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#33 When the law is not enough

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

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#31 Our data is girt by sea

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#30 You can call me AI

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

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#28 When knowing you is not enough

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#27 Privacy in Israel

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

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#25 When Big Tech feels the squeeze

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#24 The problem with random acts of kindness on TikTok

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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