Carly Kind @carlykind.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Wonderful to see privacy rights being advanced in this way. Congratulations @tanyaocarroll.bsky.social @awo.agency! 091
Reposted by Carly KindAndrew Strait @agstrait.bsky.social · 20/03/2025This 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. app.beapplied.com/apply/kefx3r...app.beapplied.comAssociate Director, Emerging Technology and Industry Practice - Ada Lovelace InstituteThe 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... 3911
Carly Kind @carlykind.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I guess we can finally put to bed the question “is technology neutral?” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comTrump inauguration: Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk seated in front of cabinet picksSeatings come under fire from Trump critics as sign of oligarchy and the powerful influence they wield 050
Reposted by Carly KindDaron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social · 14/01/2025A summary of my thinking on shared prosperity, work and AI in ten bullet points. 613158
Reposted by Carly KindWhitney Merrill @wbm312.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Facebook-parent Meta settles (AU$50 Million) with Australia's privacy watchdog over Cambridge Analytica lawsuit www.reuters.com/technology/m...reuters.comFacebook-parent Meta settles with Australia's privacy watchdog over Cambridge Analytica lawsuitMeta 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. 2204
Reposted by Carly KindLuis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 17/12/2024The end of a privacy era thanks to @carlykind.bsky.social: The Australian Information Commissioner has agreed to a $50 million payment program as part of a settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. www.oaic.gov.au/news/media-c... 179
Carly Kind @carlykind.bsky.social · 03/12/2024PSA: @evrat.bsky.social’s podcast Shell Game, which documents his adventures with a voice clone hooked up to an AI chatbot, is exceptionally good: laugh out loud funny, deeply philosophical, poignant & honest. I listen to a LOT of tech and narrative podcast series and this is my favourite from 2024 141
Carly Kind @carlykind.bsky.social · 02/12/2024My op ed in today’s SMH on the social media ban: www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... ($)smh.com.auWe’ve turned kids into outlaws. It won’t work, but we can still make social media safer for themAustralia’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. 1115
Carly Kind @carlykind.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Despite 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...amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.orgUK government failing to list use of AI on mandatory register | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian 162
Carly Kind @carlykind.bsky.social · 28/11/2024For 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 075
Carly Kind @carlykind.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Today 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...oaic.gov.auBunnings breached Australians’ privacy with facial recognition toolThe system, via CCTV, captured the faces of every person – likely hundreds of thousands of individuals – who entered 63 Bunnings stores between 2018 and 2021. 2117