Hackers just leaked millions of Qantas customers’ personal data onto the dark web but the real story isn’t just the hack. It’s how the same weak privacy laws that failed to protect Qantas now underpin the government’s new Digital ID system and upcoming under-16 social media ban.
This episode of The West Report dives into what Australia’s Digital ID really is, how it works, and why concentrating identity verification in one system could be risky for both privacy and freedom. We also look at Big Tech’s role in all this from Google’s data-harvesting empire to governments outsourcing responsibility for online safety to the same companies profiting from our personal information.
If Qantas, Optus, and Medibank can’t keep your data safe, why should we trust the government or tech giants to do any better?
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Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.
