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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 1d

For the first time, the Deloitte report also publicly maps out the business rules of the jobseeker punishment system

Here's the tech the government inflicts on poor ppl every day - everyone is subject to it: single mums, ppl with disabilities, homeless ppl

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 1d

What certainly isn't AI is the interviews Deloitte conducted with guilty bureaucrats and executives inside the Department. Here is one of them saying their system disproportionately-incorrectly punishes First Nations people

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a current DIRECTOR within the Department effectively blowing the whistle to Deloitte that the system doesn't demonstrate "natural justice"

The Robodebt vibes here are off the charts and I'm begging media to cover this

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine receiving this advice from your independent assurance review, and still operating the system in question as is. That's what the Federal government is doing, currently -- at the expense of hundreds of thousands of participants

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 1d

An FOI I put in at the start of the year found that senior officials at the Department of Employment were aware of these significant issues in 2020, but refused to act

It took until DECEMBER 2024 to get Deloitte to review the system & report back

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Leanne Veronica @leanneveronica.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like many are only now becoming aware that the law only requires platforms to take reasonable steps to prevent under 16s from having an *account*:

> if a site does not have accounts, then no action (under this law) is required

> under 16s can still view content accessible without an account

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

4chan unlikely to be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says

Julie Inman Grant says message board will need to comply with other codes which will also include age assurance for sites hosting violent and adult content * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The eSafety commissioner is not expected to block children from accessing 4chan as part of the under-16s social media ban, despite it being labelled one of the “darker” places on the internet. The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, was asked by independent senator Fatima Payman in Senate estimates on Wednesday night whether 4chan, the message board often referred to as the engine room of the internet, would be considered one of the sites required to prevent under-16s when the social media ban comes into effect from 10 December. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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JP @daedalus.eigenmagic.com · 2d

Can I offer Discord a nice sticker at this trying time?

A sticking plaster/Band-Aid™ labelled "We take privacy seriously."

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JP @daedalus.eigenmagic.com · 2d

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JP @daedalus.eigenmagic.com · 2d

I use the term 'journalist' loosely.

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JP @daedalus.eigenmagic.com · 2d

Proudly blabbing to a journalist, on the record, that your big retailer employer is definitely going to do some crimes is… well it's one of the available choices. www.channelnews.com.au/exclusive-ma...

channelnews : EXCLUSIVE Major Retailer Defies Privacy Ruling, Reinstates Facial Recognition in Select Victorian Stores

A major Australian retailer is defying rulings by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and is once again using facial recognition and covert surveillance cameras to identify th...

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 7d

lol the AG Dept was getting so many FOI requests about the FOI bill that they tried to get a blanket extension of time on those requests, info commissioner said no, the law doesn't work like that. www.righttoknow.org.au/request/i_am...

7. On the information before the OAIC, I am not satisfied that the application to extend
the processing period is justified, for the following reasons:
 The reasons provided by the Agency do not address the complexity or volume
involved in processing the applicant’s particular FOI request, including the
number of documents captured, or the specific challenges that may be involved
in processing this specific FOI request.
 While the Agency submits that a cohort of FOI requests it has received relating to
the proposed FOI reforms, are- in their totality- complex and voluminous to deal
with, an extension under s 15AB cannot be exercised to provide a ‘blanket’
extension to a cohort of cases. As outlined above, each request needs to be
considered on its individual merits.

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JP @daedalus.eigenmagic.com · 8d

"Every age assurance vendor that we tested had one bypass that was easily accomplished with things that you could buy at your local $2 shop," said Professor Shaanan Cohney from the University of Melbourne. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The $22 costume mask that could enable teenagers to hack the social media ban

From December 10, social media platforms will be forced to block under 16s in Australia from holding accounts, but experts warn age checks can be easily bypassed in several ways, including a $22 "old ...

www.abc.net.au

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JP @daedalus.eigenmagic.com · 9d

Putting LLMs into everything is like putting asbestos into everything, except the asbestos is flammable.

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JP @daedalus.eigenmagic.com · 9d

Woke you say?

A screenshot of how the original post appeared, with an "Adult Content" marker on what is pictures of the cover of a children's book called "The Day My Bum Went Psycho". Presumably because Americans think bums are too rude for children to know about, but cowering in fear because someone with an automatic weapon is about to kill your friends and teachers is a thing they should all have lots of explicit training in. Because of woke.

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JP @daedalus.eigenmagic.com · 10d

More effective than 80%* of existing cybersecurity products.

Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 10d

I see that @daedalus.eigenmagic.com is now providing the tools to fix enterprise cybersecurity. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1742...

We take security seriously. by eigenmagic | Redbubble

Cover up that incident with this handy sticking plaster.

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 10d

I see that @daedalus.eigenmagic.com is now providing the tools to fix enterprise cybersecurity. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1742...

We take security seriously. by eigenmagic | Redbubble

Cover up that incident with this handy sticking plaster.

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JP @daedalus.eigenmagic.com · 17d

It's funny watching them try to sound Very Serious and Reasonable in the face of legislation and policy that is self-contradictory and unworkable.

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JP @daedalus.eigenmagic.com · 17d

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JP @daedalus.eigenmagic.com · 17d

We also take privacy seriously.

A stylised sticking-plaster/bandaid with the text "We take privacy seriously." written on it.

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JP @daedalus.eigenmagic.com · 17d

We take security seriously.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 18d

interesting bit in a Lancet article re: Australia's teen social media ban: surprisingly the amount of socialising in person hasn't dropped significantly in the past 25 years, and certainly not by the average amount of social media use.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 18d

re-reading the teen social media ban law's original documentation: the government argued that banning kids off social media will help them not get doxxed (as a way of making the case that the law abides by our human rights obligations) ?

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JP @daedalus.eigenmagic.com · 21d

Remind me: how is training children to send video selfies of themselves over the Internet an improvement?

kat @kgt.bsky.social · 21d

Wow, age assurance on Discord is here. Options are verify your "age group" or log out...

Verify age group
We use age groups to determine access to certain experiences.

The information you provide is only used to confirm your age group, then it's deleted.

Take a video selfie
Usually fastest and totally automatic. All you need is a camera.

Scan your ID
You'll need a driver's license, passport, or other ID. Then a photo selfie to confirm it's you.

Log Out

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Digital Rights Watch @drwaus.bsky.social · 21d

Age-verification is an invasion of privacy. The technologies behind it are gender- and racially-biased and least effective where it most matters - for those ages close to 16.
It needs to be abandoned for methods which respect privacy and effectively protect children online.

www.theguardian.com/...

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 22d

The data the age assurance technology trial released doesn't really match the report.... story by @joshnicholas.com and @nickevershed.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Social media ban trial data reveals racial bias in age checking software: just how inaccurate is it?

Young people from Indigenous and Asian backgrounds are more likely to be miscategorised as over the age limit and older people as underaged, analysis finds

www.theguardian.com

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