I have deep concerns about the direction this platform is taking. We will continue to post here about key matters (for the moment) but please follow for comprehensive updates.

Denmark's moves to counter unauthorised deepfakes of ordinary people are useful to consider. It seems obvious that everyone has rights over their fundamental likeness, their voice, the way they move but the law doesn't recognise this yet.

RT @BarbaraPocock: No place for hate in our communities.

After the generation-long invasion of Afghanistan, the Australian Government has a responsibility to the people of that country, one we have failed to live up to. There are families from Afghanistan waiting in limbo and now facing further crisis. We must not forget them.

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When major data breaches like QANTAS happen it's individuals who pay the highest price - having to replace leaked identity documents and being at higher risk of scams. The system really should make the companies involved pay the costs of this as well as serious penalties!.

Australians deserve to know if their government is building a surveillance state by stealth. Technology should serve people, not track them and dismantle their democracies. We must act now before these systems become too embedded to challenge.

We are calling for an immediate freeze on Government contracts with Palantir in Australia. Then full transparency on what data is collected, how it is used and by whom, because their conduct is almost certainly in breach of Australia's privacy laws and core democratic value.

The reach extends far beyond govt. Palantir & Coles have teamed up to use 120,000 employees worth of data, Rio Tinto has renewed its multi-year contract too. This foreign surveillance company is embedded across Australia's critical infrastructure - public and private.

Let's not forget who's behind Palantir - Peter Thiel who argues democracy and freedom aren’t compatible. Palantir has deep tries to Trump’s administration and has been facilitating mass surveillance and deportation of migrants and is directly involved in the genocide in Gaza.

Here's the kicker - while Palantir extracts millions from Australian taxpayers through government contracts, the Future Fund has invested $20 million in the company (up 263% from $5.5M in just 6 months). We're literally paying them twice - as clients AND investors!.

AUSTRAC signed an $8.1 million extension with Palantir until 2025, on top of a previous $8.6 million deal. This gives Palantir access to financial intelligence data on top of Defence info - a foreign corporation with unprecedented access to sensitive Australian data.

I want to talk to you about Palantir and its expanding footprint in Australia. TLDR: You should be worried. This US surveillance tech company has secured multiple Defence contracts worth over $11 million. We need transparency about what data they're accessing & why. 🧵.

It's clear it's not safe to be a woman in the ADF and little has changed the last years despite promises to the contrary. It takes such courage to speak up in an institution like Defence, we must listen to these brave women telling their stories.

'Codes of silence have proven time and again a ticking time bomb for Defence. Secrecy breeds misconduct. Lack of transparency is a giant waving red flag, and in the absence of demanding more, the government remains complicit in its cover-ups.'. A must-read 👇

Inquiry into AUKUS when?.

RT @AmnestyUK: The documentary that the BBC refused to air showing the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli autho….

Some commentators (not pointing the finger here of course👇👇👇) have never seen a US war they don’t want to join, or a US weapons platform they don’t want us to buy.

Finding common threads on anti-corruption and whistleblowing protections with UK Baroness Susan Kramer, Ukrainian Minister Oleksandr Vasiuk and Georgina Halford Hall from Whistleblowers UK

Pleasure to meet with the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, @hzomlot . We discussed how international solidarity is essential for a free Palestine. How the UK and Australia have the potential, if they acted together, to move the US towards justice for Palestine.

Solidarity with the UK Greens MPs, independents and handful of rebels who voted against UK Labour’s appalling to declare Palestine Action a terrorist organisation. Protest against a genocide is not terrorism. The industrial scale killing of civilians is.