Digital Child is inviting academics to join an upcoming roundtable on the draft Children’s Online Privacy Code (the Code), which aims to put children at the centre of privacy protections in Australia. This is an opportunity to discuss the draft Code directly with the OAIC.

Digital Rights Watch welcomes the first draft of the Children's Online Privacy Code, which centers on improving the online spaces that young people use, instead of restricting their access. This approach is a huge step forward and we’d like to see it work for adults as well as children

OAIC releases Exposure Draft of the Children’s Online Privacy Code The OAIC has published an exposure draft of the Children’s Online Privacy Code, including new rules which ensure the consideration the best interests of children before collecting, using or disclosing...

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Register for our webinar on 1April to learn about how you can participate in the public consultation for the upcoming Children’s Online Privacy Code. Hear from me and Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d9da46...

I once had an FRT vendor tell me that facial recognition would be great at weddings. It could tell you who the guests are and how they know the couple. Or you know, you could talk to the other guests and find out 🙃

So many tech solutions in search of a problem.

Portrait photo of Kate Bower with text saying Official Panelist at SXSW Sydney

Delighted to be speaking at @sxswsydney.com again. This time with the excellent Lizzie O’Shea, DRW, Sarah Davies,(A&M F) and Rispah from Telstra Foundation Youth Advisory Council. We’ll be discussing what the internet would be like if it was designed by and for children.

25 years ago I worked in a shop. By virtue of its central location, we had a lot of celebrities come in to buy stuff. Without hesitation I can tell you that Henri Szeps was the kindest, the most charming, and most polite of them all. A genuinely good human. Rest in power.

Sunshine and double rainbows – building a better online environment for children and young people We are developing a Children’s Online Privacy Code to help better protect children and young people online.

By the time a child turns 13 more than 72 million pieces of data have been collected about them, so we’re passing children and young people the mic, to hear what protections they want from a Children’s Online Privacy Code www.oaic.gov.au/news/blog/su...

Handle with Care: What if the internet was designed by and for kids? | SXSW Sydney 2025

What would the internet be like if it was designed by and for children?

Today is the last day of voting for SXSW Sydney's conference track, and we'd love your support to host this conversation alongside OAIC's @katebower.bsky.social: publicvoting.sxswsydney.com/profile/ca36...

I feel sad for the young people. So much incredible music out there and they’re stuck listening to this stuff on repeat

At the risk of someone replying ‘ok boomer’, am I listening to Triple J #Hottest100 or the TikTok #Hottest100?

Carly Kind on LinkedIn: Happy 2025 friends and colleagues! With big changes in technology… | 12 comments Happy 2025 friends and colleagues! With big changes in technology, politics and regulation ahead, it's going to be busy year! I am excited to kick off the… | 12 comments on LinkedIn

Excited to be joining the OAIC at the end of Jan to lead the privacy reform implementation task force

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Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

Kate Bower on data & AI in 2024 and beyond "My biggest fear is that we fail to act ethically in pursuit of profit, that we will continue to do things we know are wrong in the name of innovation."

Delighted to be featured on Kendra Vant’s substack, Data Runs Deep. It’s one of my fave newsletters on AI open.substack.com/pub/kendrava...

Controversial opinion - Melbourne’s A1 Bakery is not a patch on Sydney’s Earlwood Lebanese Bakery. Something’s actually are better in Sydney.

Technology-Related Whistleblowing: A Practical Guide | Human Rights Law Centre Whistleblowers raising concerns about harmful digital platforms and holding technology companies to account will be supported by a new practical guide, released by The Human Rights Law Centre, Reset T...

Whistleblowers raising concerns about harmful digital platforms and holding tech companies to account are supported by a new practical guide—Technology-Related Whistleblowing—built in collaboration with @humanrightshrlc.bsky.social @reset.tech @psst-org.bsky.social

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All I want for Christmas is some humans to buy stuff I don’t need from ok? And some rational thinking from the businesses trying to jam AI into everything everywhere. Please just stop.

Not that I blame her but the staff member didn’t check a single error message - people could’ve been shoving anything in their bags and some people did just walk out without paying because the wait was so long for ‘assistance’.

Popped into Kmart for Xmas shopping, only option to pay was the AI-driven self serve checkout. Of course I got an error that needed a human to check, in fact all 7 checkouts had errors. 1 poor overworked employee running around fixing the mistakes caused by AI. So much productivity!

Facebook have a help page dedicated to checking whether you or your friends logged into the "This is Your Digital Life" app: www.facebook.com/help/1873665...

Me: as of last night, I’ve seen 25 bands play live this year

Also me: why am I so tired all the time

Courts lay down law for attorney use of AI GenAI can’t replace human expertise, analysis and judgement.

Australian #lawyers “cannot safely enter” confidential or commercially sensitive information into public generative #AI engines like ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, authorities in three states have warned in issuing explicit guidelines on genAI’s use in law.

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Thanks @miahhe.bsky.social for sharing your thoughts with me and @drwaus.bsky.social

In the words of civil rights activist John Lewis “never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”

I wear my troublemaker badge with pride!

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

Surely Shortland Street is still on?

Does anyone?

I heard this is a good place to talk about taxing the rich, breaking up big tech, and ending Washington corruption.

FTC Bans Location Data Company That Powers the Surveillance Ecosystem Venntel is a primary provider of location data to the government or other companies that sell to U.S. agencies. The FTC is banning Venntel from selling data related to health clinics, refugee shelters...

'Venntel takes location data from smartphones, either through ordinary apps installed on them or through the advertising ecosystem, and provides a data feed to other companies who sell location tracking technology to the government or sells the data directly itself.'

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