Digital Rights / Digital Wrongs: Tech Policy and Human Rights in Australia
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Stories show concrete harms: an unencrypted chat handed to police leads to imprisonment, communities vanish when platforms delete accounts, renters lose homes after an algorithm downgrades them, and telecom and insurer breaches expose identities. Policy facts matter: metadata retention: two years stored; Assistance and Access Act 2018 compels company assistance to access content; Identify and Disrupt Act 2021 grants account takeover powers. Advocates seek updated Privacy Act definitions, a statutory right of action, limits on proactive scanning, and better oversight of surveillance powers.
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chapters (31)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:36Stories
- 3:49Digital Rights
- 7:12Digital Rights Watch
- 8:26Digital Rights are Human Rights
- 9:14Enabling Rights
- 10:35Internet
- 11:21Digital Security
- 13:16Techno Solutionism
- 14:33Climate activists
- 16:34Criminality
- 17:40algorithmic rabbit holes
- 18:51whackamole
- 19:02harms
- 19:23attention economy
- 20:48Digital Wrongs
- 21:13Privacy Reform
- 23:23Right of Action
- 23:45Fair Reasonable Test
- 24:27Surveillance Powers
- 25:50Grand Assurances
- 26:36ACT
- 28:40Private and Public Surveillance
- 29:08Online Safety
- 30:28Increased Surveillance
- 30:43Online Safety Issues
- 33:11AntiQueer AntiTrans Sentiment
- 34:17Whats coming up
- 35:07Get involved
- 39:47Make a donation
- 40:43Wrap up
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