Within two months of its release ChatGTP has reached 100 million active users, making it the fastest-growing consumer application ever launched. ChatGPT is underpinned by a large language model that requires massive amounts of data to function and improve, posing a privacy risks to each and every one of us who has ever posted online. Read More

The recent questioning of the heads of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple in the US Congress has highlighted the threat their practices pose to our privacy and democracy.

However these big four companies are only part of a vast, sophisticated system of mass surveillance.

In this network are thousands of data brokers, ad agencies and technology companies – some of them Australian. They harvest data from millions of people, often without their explicit consent or knowledge. Read More