CyberBeat is a community driven, educational and informative 15 minute podcast keeping you up to date with news and analysis on what’s happening with the internet in Australia and how it relates to you.
CyberBeat #63
November 2022
FEATURE: This week Australian Tech regulation - What should be the regulations and who should be the regulators?
This week NSW Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello talks with Malcolm about the NSW digital identity card being proposed. Director IDs are being made mandatory, but do we have confidence in their Cybersecurity capabilities? Highlights from this year's NetThing 2022 forum - The internet conversation in Australia - with Ed Husic, Federal Minister for Industry and Science, and Vint Cerf, considered one of the founders of the internet. More information This week award winning journalist Yaara Bou Melhem talks about her debut feature-length documentary, Unseen Skies, which interrogates the inner workings of mass surveillance, computer vision and artificial intelligence with visionary artist Trevor Paglen.
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