WRITING
ESSAY
Kill Your Darlings | ‘Homesick for Another Internet’ | July 2024
Overland | ‘The rhetoric used to harm your digital rights’ | August 2023
Kill Your Darlings | ‘The New Privacy Paradox’ | September 2022
Overland | ‘Why digital privacy is a feminist issue’ | February 2021
Overland | ‘Online anonymity is really important, actually’ | October 2021
REVIEW / CRITICISM
Overland | ‘Pleasure politics: Zahra Stardust’s Indie Porn’ | December 2024
Meanjin | ‘Sex, art and capital: On Bri Lee’s The Work’ | April 2024
Meanjin | ‘Can you separate the art from the artist? On Claire Dederer’s Monsters’ | March 2024
Overland | ‘Justice, death or revenge: Brian Merchant’s Blood in the Machine’ | November 2023
Overland | ‘The future liberal feminists want: Tracey Spicer’s Man-Made’ | May 2023
The Saturday Paper | On Vidya Rajan’s In Search of Lost Scroll | February 2023
Crikey | ‘No matter who wins Hunted, Channel 10’s new surveillance game, we all lose’ | July 2022
OPINION / ANALYSIS
The Guardian | ‘Who does Woolworths’ tracking and timing of its workers serve? It’s certainly not the customers’ | October 2024
Crikey | ‘Google has been declared a monopoly and now we should all think about the digital future we want’ | August 2024
The Guardian | ‘From politics to porn: will 2024 be the year in which deepfake fears finally become real?’ | July 2024
The Guardian | ‘Australian politicians think 15-year-olds are old enough to go to jail but not go on Facebook. They’re kidding themselves’ | May 2024
The LGBTQIA+ Media Project | ‘Computers are binary, but humans aren't: why automated gender recognition is a high-tech gender essentialist fantasy’ | May 2024
The Guardian | ‘We must target the root cause of misinformation. We cannot fact check our way out of this’ | April 2024
The Guardian | ‘Yes, TikTok sucks. But the rules for tech giants must be better than ‘it’s only bad if China does it’’ | March 2024
The Guardian | ‘In a digital ecosystem that relentlessly creates, extracts and stores, the notion of a disappearing text is very appealing’ | March 2024
Crikey | ‘The tax office’s thirst to watch over you is part of Australia’s expanding surveillance regime’ | February 2024
The Guardian | ‘It’s possible to find spirituality in technology, but beware those who misuse it for personal gain’ | January 2024
The Guardian | ‘Hey tech billionaires, if you want to talk about radical change, let’s abolish venture capitalism’ | October 2023
The Guardian | ‘Is artificial intelligence a threat to journalism or will the technology destroy itself?’ | August 2023
The Guardian | ‘Do we have the same boyfriend? Head to social media and you might find out’ | July 2023
The Guardian | ‘Yes, you should be worried about AI — but Matrix analogies hide a more insidious threat’ | May 2023
Crikey | ‘Data-hungry corporations should clean their own messes—instead of asking us to’ | January 2023
The Guardian | What are we worrying about when we worry about TikTok?’ | January 2023
The Guardian | ‘As Twitter burns we must not forget it is people that create social movements, not apps’ | November 2022
Reuters | ‘Australia’s moves to protect data privacy fall short’ | November 2022
The Guardian | ‘Does anyone really think Elon Musk cares about supporting creatives on Twitter?’ | November 2022
The Guardian | ‘A real estate agent data breach would be devastating for renters.’ | October 2022
The Conversation | ‘Why are you so scared of breasts?: how Florence Pugh’s sheer Valentino gown provoked a discussion about misogyny and women’s bodies’ | July 2022
Engage Media | ‘Policing the pandemic: Australia’s technology response to COVID-19’ | June 2022
Sydney Morning Herald | ‘You, me and Alexa: Smart home devices and sex in the digital age’ | June 2022
The Age | ‘Court order to expose @PRguy17 threatens the right to be anonymous online’ | June 2022
Junkee | ‘Queer online spaces are being threatened by the government’s internet regulation’ | March 2022
Overland | ‘Online safety begins with participation’ | February 2022
Sydney Morning Herald | ‘A pox on Facebook, but also on the media bargaining code’ | February 2021
The Canberra Times | ‘Proposed online safety measures may do more harm than good’ | February 2021
The Guardian | ‘The Australian government’s concern about TikTok is not just about data ethics - it’s about politics’ | July 2020
COMMENTARY
SURVEILLANCE
The Guardian | Revealed: Home Affairs paying to access controversial tool tracking mobile phone movements | November 2023
Yahoo Finance | Coles and Woolworths anti-theft measures assumes worst of shoppers | October 2023
Crikey | Australian spies are surveilling PornHub, Fortnite and Tinder | October 2023
The Guardian | A rise in shoplifting has Australian supermarkets ramping up surveillance | September 2023
Sydney Morning Herald | Australian music venues criticised for use of facial recognition technology | July 2023
The Guardian | Labor under pressure to ban use of Israeli spyware in investigations of alleged welfare fraud | April 2023
The Guardian | Woolworths expands self-checkout AI that critics say treats ‘every customer as a suspect’ | February 2023
VICE | Facial Recognition Will Be Used to Stop Self-Excluded Gamblers in NSW | October 2022
VICE | Facial Recognition Will Be Used to Boost Profits in Some Australian Prisons | September 2022
PRIVACY
ABC News | Potentially sensitive customer information allegedly stolen from Melbourne real estate agency Nelson Alexander | December 2024
WIRED | The Breach of a Face Recognition Firm Reveals a Hidden Danger of Biometrics | May 2024
The Guardian | Is my home spying on me? As smart devices move in, experts fear Australians are oversharing | February 2024
ABC | See your identity pieced together from stolen data | May 2023
The Guardian | Online age-verification system could create ‘honeypot’ of personal data and pornography-viewing habits, privacy groups warn | October 2022
The Guardian | Sydney school’s use of fingerprint scanners in toilets an invasion of privacy, expert says | September 2022
VICE | The Government Is Storing Sensitive Information About Jobseekers Without Consent | July 2022
RENT TECH
The Guardian | The Australian tenants who are charged to pay their rent | September 2024
SBS | RentTech platforms accused of 'data gouging' and 'exploiting' housing crisis | November 2023
The Canberra Times | Renters at risk of having personal data hacked | September 2023
Sydney Morning Herald | Wake-up call for real estate agencies’: Harcourts hit by data breach | November 2022
The Guardian | Melbourne real estate agency data breach leaves details of renters and landlords exposed | November 2022
Sydney Morning Herald | ‘Data breach waiting to happen’: Warning for real estate agents and renters on personal info requests | October 2022
ONLINE SAFETY
The Guardian | Should Australia ban children under 16 from social media – and how would it actually work? | May 2024
The Guardian | Australia releases new online safety standards to tackle terror and child sexual abuse content | November 2023
Crikey | Technology is helping child abusers. Do we need to sacrifice privacy to beat them? | June 2023
Zee Feed | Internet Regulation Sucks Right Now. Is It An Impossible Challenge? | May 2023
ABC | Australia's changing how it regulates the internet — and no-one's paying attention | September 2022
The Guardian | Australian defamation law never needed Morrison’s ‘anti-trolling’ legislation | 12 June 2022