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Concerns over TikTok feeding user data to Beijing are back – and there’s good evidence to support them

Image: TikTok When English statesman Sir Francis Bacon famously said “knowledge is power”, he could hardly have foreseen the rise of ubiquitous social media some 500 years later. Yet social...

Is your phone really listening to your conversations? Well, turns out it doesn’t have to

 Image: Shuttlestock Have you ever chatted with a friend about buying a certain item and been targeted with an ad for that same item the...

ACCC ‘world first’: Australia’s Federal Court found Google misled users about personal location data

  Image: Henry Perks / Unsplash The Federal Court has found Google misled some users about personal location data collected through Android devices for two years, from...

Google is leading a vast, covert human experiment. You may be one of the guinea pigs

 Image: Shuttlestock On January 13 the Australian Financial Review reported Google had removed some Australian news content from its search results for some local users. Speaking to the Guardian,...

83% of Australians want tougher privacy laws. Now’s your chance to tell the government what you want

Image: Shuttlestock Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter has called for submissions to the long-awaited review of the federal Privacy Act 1988. This is the first wide-ranging review of...

Microsoft’s takeover would be a win for TikTok and tech giants – not users

Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/Sipa USA In what seems to be a common occurrence, Chinese video-sharing app TikTok is once again in the headlines. After months of...

Even a microchipped pet can be lost if your data is out of date

Picture: "Piper" by Susan Garwood Pets are beloved family members. On July 1st 2018, every state and territory of Australia (excluding the Northern Territory) enacted laws...

Even a microchipped pet can be lost if your data is out of date

Picture: "Piper" by Susan Garwood Pets are beloved family members. On July 1st 2018, every state and territory of Australia (excluding the Northern Territory) enacted laws...

Giving your details to restaurants and cafes: your rights, their obligations and privacy concerns

Picture: Shuttlestock While lockdown restrictions have eased in many places, the coronavirus threat isn’t over yet. The number of cases globally has surpassed 9 million,...

The COVIDSafe app was just one contact tracing option. These alternatives guarantee more privacy

Image: Shuttlestock Since its release on Sunday, experts and members of the public alike have raised privacy concerns with the federal government’s COVIDSafe mobile app. The...
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