Wonderful to see privacy rights being advanced in this way. Congratulations @tanyaocarroll.bsky.social @awo.agency!

Associate Director, Emerging Technology and Industry Practice - Ada Lovelace Institute The Ada Lovelace Institute (Ada) is a hiring an Associate Director to lead our Emerging Technology & Industry Practice research directorate and collectively set its agenda and workplan in our next...

This does mean one extremely exciting thing - 🚨Job Alert Klaxon🚨

Ada is hiring a new Associate Director to lead our Emerging Tech and Practice research team. I urge you to apply - you'll get to work with some of the best researchers on high impact projects.

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“Watching”??? Nice try, my friend - you were instrumental in building and growing Ada into the thriving place it is today! So proud of you and of @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social. I know the team will be gutted to see you go but you’re going to do incredible things! 🫶🏼

Indeed I’m sure @mslods.bsky.social does know more about this than me!

Oh thank god some stability in chaos

This looks great but also is bread in ramen normal? I guess what even is normal now

You didn’t have any good news for us on a day like today?

Trump inauguration: Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk seated in front of cabinet picks Seatings come under fire from Trump critics as sign of oligarchy and the powerful influence they wield

I guess we can finally put to bed the question “is technology neutral?” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A summary of my thinking on shared prosperity, work and AI in ten bullet points.

Regulation matters

Facebook-parent Meta settles with Australia's privacy watchdog over Cambridge Analytica lawsuit Meta Platforms has agreed to a A$50 million settlement ($31.85 million), Australia's privacy watchdog said on Tuesday, closing long-drawn, expensive legal proceedings for the Facebook parent over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Facebook-parent Meta settles (AU$50 Million) with Australia's privacy watchdog over Cambridge Analytica lawsuit

www.reuters.com/technology/m...

The end of a privacy era thanks to @carlykind.bsky.social: The Australian Information Commissioner has agreed to a $50 million payment program as part of a settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc.

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So good. The episode where the two Evans make the most deathly banal small talk together was so, so funny and also so profound. And when they couldn’t end the call and just kept saying “take care”… 😂😂😂

And thank you to Bluesky for leading me to it! I can’t remember who posted about it but I’m in your debt

PSA: @evrat.bsky.social’s podcast Shell Game, which documents his adventures with a voice clone hooked up to an AI chatbot, is exceptionally good: laugh out loud funny, deeply philosophical, poignant & honest. I listen to a LOT of tech and narrative podcast series and this is my favourite from 2024

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I also came here to vote for a FOMO is not a strategy sticker

We’ve turned kids into outlaws. It won’t work, but we can still make social media safer for them Australia’s Privacy Commissioner has serious concerns about the laws passed on Friday, but, she explains, we can use privacy legislation to make the internet better for young people.

My op ed in today’s SMH on the social media ban: www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... ($)

Making this point was a priority for the @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social in our early days, and its great to see @imogen-parker.bsky.social quoted in the article, being one of the UK’s foremost specialists on public sector AI policy

Despite the woeful performance against the target, we should not underestimate how important it is that this principle has now been established - that public sector AI should be visible to the public amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theg...

For those following along at home… the Privacy & Other Legislation Amendment Bill was passed by Parliament this evening! The Act strengthens our enforcement regime & importantly gives me the power to develop a Children’s Online Privacy Code, following in the footsteps of the UK, Ireland & California

We’ve also published guidance for entities considering using facial recognition technology

www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/priv...

The system, via CCTV, captured the faces of every person – likely hundreds of thousands of individuals – who entered 63 Bunnings stores over a three year period.

Bunnings breached Australians’ privacy with facial recognition tool The system, via CCTV, captured the faces of every person – likely hundreds of thousands of individuals – who entered 63 Bunnings stores between 2018 and 2021.

Today I issued a determination finding that Bunnings retail group breached Australians’ privacy by collecting their personal and sensitive information through a facial recognition technology system.

www.oaic.gov.au/news/media-c...

Super helpful thank you! You have @gaiamarcus.bsky.social but you could add @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social @imogen-parker.bsky.social @elliotmjones.bsky.social @agstrait.bsky.social