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Tech giants are trying to obliterate privacy. Australia has a rarechance to take back part of their power | Lizzie O'Shea

‘Pervert glasses’ are selling out, tick-a-box consent is broken and the spectre of surveillance is invading all aspects of our lives

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Lizzie O'Shea2 Sept 2026, 03:00 amUpdated 1d ago2 min readAsiaAustralia
Tech giants are trying to obliterate privacy. Australia has a rare chance to take back part of their power | Lizzie O'Shea

Australia — Lizzie O'Shea

‘Pervert glasses’ are selling out, tick-a-box consent is broken and the spectre of surveillance is invading all aspects of our lives

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A mere five years after the government first started talking about it, new changes have finally been proposed for the Privacy Act. They could not be more overdue and urgent. “Pervert glasses” are selling out at Kmart, facial recognition technology is proliferating in our everyday environments, and microtargeting for advertising has filled our algorithms with nonsense and toxic junk.

Privacy reform is hugely popular : 93% of Australians say protecting personal information is important to them, and 87% say they are more concerned about their privacy than they were five years ago. But it is practically impossible for us to take personal responsibility for our data footprint, especially in the age of AI. Tick-a-box consent is a broken model. Australians rate protecting our personal information as their number one priority for AI regulation.

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Source: The Guardian · Lizzie O'Shea. Published 2 Sept 2026, 03:00 am.

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