Burning Platforms

Apps now harvest so much of our data, from our locations and movements, our shopping habits, even for some women - their fertility. What are the privacy implications of capturing this much bodily information? Burning Platforms speaks with academic Katharine Kemp about her work tracking the data-harvesting of fertility apps. Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.  

With a new focus on protecting children online as part of an evolution of the Privacy Act, rights activist Chloe Shorten (Director Alfred Health and Industry Funds Services, Ambassador Foyer Foundation) joins the Burning Platforms panel to look at the case for using new and existing laws to define and enforce the rights of minors.   And don't forget to vote for our SXSW proposal.   Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.    

With the first major review of the Australian Privacy Act in 40 years reaching end-game, the Burning Platforms panel unpack the state of events, and discuss a new report looking at how tick-a-box consent is undermining our freedom and privacy.   Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

After the string of hacks in late 2022 the government has developed a new online identity wallet. What is the logic behind it? Will it provide better privacy for citizens? And should we trust government with our data anyway?   Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech.      This week Peter Lewis, Lizzie O'Shea, and Dan Stinton are joined by Professor Ed Santow, Director for Policy & Governance at the Human Technology Institute, and Industry Professor for Responsible Technology at the University of Technology Sydney.   Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.  

Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech.    This week, we speak with Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, authors of new book 'Chokepoint Capitalism' and explore how creatives can break free of Big Tech and Big Content   Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

The final Burning Platforms of 2022 reflects on the year that was, including Elon Musk, tech regulation, privacy and more. Plus we held quizzes, played 'Dan or bot', and launched new book 'Disconnect'! Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

Twitter is imploding before our eyes under Elon Musk, Meta is shedding staff and stock prices, and the crypto winter freezes out more people as FTX collapses. Is this the end of the (Big Tech) world as we know it? And are we all feeling fine? What will happen next?   Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech.    Join Peter Lewis, Lizzie O'Shea, and Dan Stinton for this week's analysis of the politics of technology from around the world.   Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech.    As we move deeper into the new phases of the internet should we be building in guardrails and redlines around this new technology? And even if we should, can we?    This week, the Burning Platform panel deep dives into the metaverse with the Founder of the Responsible Metaverse Alliance, Dr Catriona Wallace.   Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.  

As part of the 2022 NetThing Internet Governance Conference, Burning Platforms will ask - "Do we need to build our resilience against a worsening tech world, or should we design a better one?"   As the tech harms pile up and change us and our society, we deep dive into a new book 'Disconnect - why we get pushed to extremes online and how to stop it' which showcases online conspiracy theorists, freedom fighters, trolls, screen addicts and more and we will unpack whether our current tech landscape is inevitable or if there's a better way forward.   Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.  

The future of transportation is abuzz with disruption, from ride-sharing to electric vehicles to AI traffic flows.   Burning Platforms asks - will these build transport systems for the better or worse? With special guest Paris Marx, Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation, and host of 'Tech Won't Save Us'.   Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.