Notices by Digital Rights Watch (drwaus@aus.social)

“It’s telling that major supermarkets are prioritising investment in privacy-invasive surveillance technology in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, rather than considering other ways that might lower rates of theft such as reining in their huge profit margins and lowering prices. It’s really cynical, and it’s really punitive.” - our program lead @floreani on the rise of supermarket surveillance
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/10/coles-woolworths-theft-measures-security-self-checkout-camera-trackers/

"Patients are being pushed to provide their personal data to a medical provider's app and rewards program in order to access bulk billing from their GP, raising privacy and cost of living concerns."

We need privacy law reform to better address the unfair and unreasonable collection of people's personal information, like this.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-15/medical-data-bulk-billing-cornerstone/102730188/