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Australia Proposes Its Biggest Privacy Shake-Up in Years. Here Is What Sparked It.
Facial recognition in shopping centres, 'pervert glasses' on sale at Kmart, and ad-targeting that poisons your social feeds. Australia's proposed Privacy Act changes are a direct response to all three.

People Are Pushing Back Against AI They Never Asked For, and It Is Working
From deepfake opt-outs to data centre protests, ordinary people are increasingly fed up with generative AI being forced into daily life. And companies are starting to listen.

Halliday's G2 Smart Glasses Record Your Meetings. Nobody Else in the Room Will Know.
A new pair of camera-free smart glasses promises to summarise your meetings automatically. The catch: the people being recorded may never find out.

Your Name Can Now Be Your Privacy Shield on Zoom
One venture capitalist renamed himself on video calls to block AI note-takers. It works. But the bigger question is whether anyone reads those transcripts anyway.

A documentary about training AI on real people raises questions it refuses to answer
Marc Isaacs' new film 'Synthetic Sincerity' blurs fact and fiction to explore how AI learns from human faces and stories. Critics say it skips the hard questions it promises to ask.