Recent research, Driving Blind: The Unexamined Risk of Connected Cars, by Katharine Kemp at UNSW, highlights serious flaws in the data practices of new internet-connected cars in Australia, emphasising the need for urgent reform in privacy laws. While modern cars offer useful features like automatic accident detection and alerts for children left in back [...]
The introduced legislation aims to create new criminal offences to ban the sharing of non-consensual deepfake sexually explicit material. The Criminal Code Amendment (Deepfake Sexual Material) Bill 2024 will impose severe criminal penalties of up to 6 years imprisonment on those who share digitally created sexually explicit material. This behaviour can involve degrading, humiliating, [...]
Wesnet has been working with Tinder Australia over the last few months to create a Dating Safety Guide that will help survivors and the general population with learning about the safety features available in the Tinder Dating App. Although 79% (1) of Australians reported that dating app safety features were very [...]
On 6 June 2022, Apple announced a new safety feature at its annual WWDC event that will significantly help victim-survivors of domestic abuse using iPhones and other connected devices. This new feature will help Apple users quickly secure their devices, making it a very helpful resource for victim-survivors of domestic abuse who are concerned [...]
Wesnet, the national peak body representing specialist women’s domestic violence services, today announced that it has joined forces with the Coalition Against Stalkerware to combat non-consensual tracking via digital device and to work towards providing support to survivors of domestic violence. Today, the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women [...]
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