Digital Rights Watch

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Tom Sulston is the head of policy at Digital Rights Watch.

He says while councils have oversight on the ground, state governments have the responsibility for regulating public surveillance and the federal government can work with companies on rules about the design of the glasses.

Councils do need to step in and do some work, but so do federal and state governments.

Its draft legislation includes a suggestion for the right to erasure, to allow users to force content uploaded online without their consent to be deleted.

But Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O'Shea says there is more the government can do.

And maybe that might involve implementing accessorial liability provisions, so saying that people who sell these glasses might be responsible if they've been reckless or not properly careful in how they market and design some of these devices.

So have they put in pr- place proper safeguards? Not just holding the individual user responsible, but the person or the entity that's selling them.

But first, let's dig into what our friend Toby Walsh has described as a week when too much is happening.

With our panel, Digital Rights Watch founder and chair, Lizzie O'Shea.

Hey, Lizzie.

Hi.

Well, that's so interesting.

It feels like there's still a lot of work to do.

I know Digital Rights Watch has got a public submission tool that you'll be launching.

Yeah, yeah.

And yes, there will be some exceptions, but for the first time ever, you will have the right to be forgotten.

You'll hear more about what these changes could mean when I speak to Digital Rights Watch in a moment.

But I'm keen to hear if this is something that you would take up.

Do you wanna be able to ask for your personal info to be deleted from apps and platforms if you're not using them anymore? Because Victorian parent Niels Wouters has found this almost impossible.

Uh, one person says, "I tried to have my Woolworths account deleted and was told they couldn't delete it as they needed to retain it for seven years.

They could only turn the account off, but not delete it." Abby says, "Real estate agents collect documents and data for rental applications and no requirement to delete after the application progress.

Staggering overreach into personal information." Well, I did say you'd hear from Digital Rights Watch.

Lizzie O'Shea is the founder and chair of that organization.

So we'll s- be speaking to her first this morning.

At 7:30, we'll be joined by Lizzie O'Shea, who is founder of Digital Rights Watch.

Um, Lizzie recently attended a hearing as part of the public inquiry into AUKUS in Canberra, speaking about the impact of Pillar 2, um, and the way in which Australian data could be used in the development of military technology.

So that's coming up at 7:30.

You're listening to 3CR Breakfast, and we just listened to an interview, um, with Heidi Everett from Schizy, which is an arts organization dedicated to creating space for people with complex mental health.

And to find out more, you can go to schizy.org.

We are now joined on the line by Lizzie O'Shea, who is a lawyer, author and founder of Digital Rights Watch.

Lizzie also sits on the board of Blueprint for Free Speech, uh, which was involved in gambling reform for many years and at the National Justice Project, um, during which she worked with lawyers, journalists and activists to establish a cop watch program.