The FBI just raided a corporate landlord for illegal rent hikes via algorithmic price-fixing -- if you have any tips about this sort of thing going on in Australia, I want to hear from you *more than life itself*, basically. Contact options in my bio.
This application was originally made in 2017.
@jpwarren
had to take it to the Federal Court. Here we are, seven years later. FOI in this country, I mean.
SOME good news at least. Justin Warren the robodebt Freedom of Information advocate has had a comprehensive and somewhat surprising win in the full Federal Court of Australia regarding the controversial slapdash use of "cabinet documents" to deny FoI requests. Huge.
New from
@cameronwilson
and I today: Family Farms in NSW and Queensland promoted by Covid vaccine-sceptic group Parents With Questions were intended to operate outside a ‘corrupt’ food system. But not all has gone to plan…
Police hold vast amounts of sensitive information. Addresses, numbers, family relationships… Our investigation today into when that data is misused, with complaints data from most states — and the risks when police “use it as their own private library”.
From
@joshgnosis
and I on the current state of nonconsensual deep fake regulation here: open source AI sites are allowing users to 'request' models of Australian women to make deep fakes -- and the onus is on the women to ask for them to be removed.
Wonder if in, say, a decade, we’ll be talking about the moral injury for staff who worked at these companies built on the thievery and erasure of human qualities and creativity?
A follow to my investigation of a flawed risk assessment algorithm used in immigration detention: turns out, researchers couldn't build a new one because of problems with ABF data. Then Covid stopped ABF from making “a new and more reliable” tool. And it just keeps being used...
At issue is another problematic risk assessment tool designed to predict future crime, VERA-2R.
@ninobucci
and
@knausc
reported on problems with the tool last year -- which the Morrison government was warned about
This Epoch Times CFO indictment is wild. Feds say Epoch Times had a "Make Money Online" team that funded a huge part of the Falun Gong-affiliated, MAGA outlet's budget through money laundering fraudulent debit cards.
Inside the life of Nicole Shanahan, 'Silicon Valley princess:' drugs (cocaine and ketamine), affairs (Sergey Brin + Elon Musk), and a $1 billion divorce settlement powering RFK Jr.'s campaign. All the details she's kept from the public here:
This is a tool that now has a well documented history of rating people as high risk unnecessarily, affecting where they're placed in a centre and whether they're handcuffed. And people in detention aren't even told it exists.