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1/12🧵 Here’s how I disproved the Gov’s claim that 600 FOIs were “AI bot-generated” + insights on the #FOI system’s real problems from @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au @browne90.bsky.social Maria O'Sullivan Yee-Fui Ng & Sofia Verza ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Government falsely blames AI for FOI surge
Bots did not send eSafety 600 requests.
ia.acs.org.au
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information-age.bsky.social
Advocacy groups and legal experts are demanding transparency around a new government tool being developed to score the needs of people with disability.

Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Calls grow to reveal secret NDIS algorithm
Fears tool reduces people to data points.
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information-age.bsky.social
Australian authorities are now accessing personal data from social media and email users in just days under an agreement with the United States, raising fresh questions about digital privacy and transparency.

Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Australia fast-tracks access to US user data
Police obtain cross-border social media information.
ia.acs.org.au
jeremynadel8.bsky.social
Incredible reporting, the type Western media weren't doing while IBM did the Holocaust
972mag.com
Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé

The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.

Yuval Abraham reports.

www.972mag.com/microsoft-cl...
Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200
The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.
www.972mag.com
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maximumwelfare.bsky.social
X-thread for the panel featuring @asherwolf.bsky.social, Jenny Miller, Felicity Button, Colleen Taylor. Hosted by Guardian reporter Chris Knaus who did so much to cover the issue for them.

#PeopleVSRobodebt
maximumwelfare.bsky.social
Still trying to find this out thought I might try here
jeremynadel8.bsky.social
"took nine hours to notify police" 🤯
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maximumwelfare.bsky.social
Some of what went on with my appeal:

• 'Appeal script crashed twice and did not record the outcome.'

• 'Thomas was not sent any notification his payments had been suspended, only the final cancellation letter.'

• 'his payments were cancelled [when] penalty period did not apply'

A symphony of it.
Decision was: CANCELLATION (CAN)
Decision Type: Cust did not contact Provider to Re-Engage (DCA)
Reason for Contact: Disagree with legislation/policy
Why does the customer want the decision quality checked?
Customer wants to have the decision reviewed as he was not aware of the appt booked for 08/12/20 the only notification he got was via an SMS message for an appt on 18/12/20. Customer has not heard from his provider at all and has never spoken to themn about any appts that have been booked. Customer did not receive notification that his payment was suspended let alone cancelled and does not agree that his payments can be cancelled under social security law.
This DOC was created by the Internal Review / Explanation script.
DOC by [s22 redaction] on 1300306325.
__________________ANNOTATE BY [s22 redaction] ON 14 JAN 2021
Appeal has been finalised and decision set aside. Thomas was not sent any notification his payments had been suspended, only the final cancellation letter. In addition, when his payments were cancelled CDR, the penalty period did not apply on his record (system issue) and his JSP payment has been granted from the day after the cancellation, 12/1/2021. Will attempt to run the appeal script again today and advise Thomas in writing.
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mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
In a bid to distract attention away from an unprecedented attack on government openness and transparency, @albomp.bsky.social’s Govt has made false statements regarding an AI #FOI bombardment of the eSafety Commissioner. Misleading talking points atop hypocrisy! 🤬 #auspol
Government falsely blames AI for FOI surge
Bots did not send eSafety 600 requests.
ia.acs.org.au
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asherwolf.bsky.social
Sydney Water failed to perform adequate due diligence before claiming there were no PFAS hotspots within its drinking water catchments, and governments failed to keep pace with the spread of “forever chemicals” in the environment, a parliamentary inquiry has found archive.md/2025.09.11-0...
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mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
Govt spent $101K of YOUR money on lawyers trying to keep a Maugean Skate brief from YOU. They lost the fight.

Instead of rethinking their resistance to transparency, @albomp.bsky.social’s solution to balancing the books is to charge citizens $40 to receive an erroneous #FOI decision. 🤦‍♂️ #auspol
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asherwolf.bsky.social
The correct response to bot orchestrated DDoS is *not to punish human access to freedom of information*
information-age.bsky.social
The federal government’s claim that several hundred Freedom of Information (FOI) applicants’ requests to the eSafety Commissioner last year were “AI bot-generated” is false, according to eSafety's publicly available documents.

Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Government falsely blames AI for FOI surge
Bots did not send eSafety 600 requests.
ia.acs.org.au
jeremynadel8.bsky.social
10/12🧵The irony of the Gov blaming sites helping the public access their info + accessing & indexing gov docs is they’re SOLVING not CAUSING the problem: see @oaf.org.au #righttoknow @muckrock.com #StopLAPDSpyingCoalition journos behind #SecretCanada Tom Cardoso & @robyndoolittle.bsky.social
jeremynadel8.bsky.social
6/12🧵#eSafety said concerns that its Meltwater tool profiles critics are false & the docs only contain posts mentioning eSafety. Many orgs’ social media monitoring is innocent PR, but considering its application in #Centrelink & #NDIS the #FOI applicants wanted to check
jeremynadel8.bsky.social
5/12🧵Sidenote: Although most the applicants were conservative, FSU's opposition to surveillance & censorship has been consistent eg its stance against SLV’s treatment of @jinghuaqian.com @omarsakr.bsky.social & Alison Evans & support for Antoinette Lattouf's unfair dismissal case
jeremynadel8.bsky.social
4/12🧵 X accounts using their real names posted eSafety’s replies; former liberal candidate Katherine Deves’s FOI captured “16,000+ docs”; scope-related decisions in the email-thread correspond with posts from users like conservative activist Kirralie Smith whose request related to “250 documents”
jeremynadel8.bsky.social
3/12🧵 Several dozen of the 83 "requests via the Free Speech Union of Australia's website" that eSafety determined "as having been validly made" are listed (and some posted) on its disclosure log:
www.esafety.gov.au/sites/defaul...
& www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/cor...
www.esafety.gov.au
jeremynadel8.bsky.social
2/12🧵Processing the 636 FOIs for users’ docs "relating to their name and X handle” was based on unique details: whether eSafety stored no posts; too manny; whether they’d provide an ID or email, according to eSafety's internal correspondence: www.esafety.gov.au/sites/defaul...
www.esafety.gov.au
jeremynadel8.bsky.social
1/12🧵 Here’s how I disproved the Gov’s claim that 600 FOIs were “AI bot-generated” + insights on the #FOI system’s real problems from @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au @browne90.bsky.social Maria O'Sullivan Yee-Fui Ng & Sofia Verza ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Government falsely blames AI for FOI surge
Bots did not send eSafety 600 requests.
ia.acs.org.au