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jeremynadel8.bsky.social
@jeremynadel8.bsky.social
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Tech journo, former iTnews, bylines in The Guardian, Information Age, Crikey & Sat Paper — tips & leads: (Signal) JeremyNadel.86
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1/12🧵 Here’s how I disproved the Gov’s claim that 600 FOIs were “AI bot-generated” + insights on the #FOI system’s real problems from @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au @browne90.bsky.social Maria O'Sullivan Yee-Fui Ng & Sofia Verza ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Government falsely blames AI for FOI surge
Bots did not send eSafety 600 requests.
ia.acs.org.au
MEDIA CALLOUT: looking for OSINT professionals &/or enthusiasts (of any level) to help &/or comment on an article tn message me either here, Signal (jeremynadel.86) or [email protected]
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Advocacy groups and legal experts are demanding transparency around a new government tool being developed to score the needs of people with disability.

Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Calls grow to reveal secret NDIS algorithm
Fears tool reduces people to data points.
ia.acs.org.au
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Australian authorities are now accessing personal data from social media and email users in just days under an agreement with the United States, raising fresh questions about digital privacy and transparency.

Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Australia fast-tracks access to US user data
Police obtain cross-border social media information.
ia.acs.org.au
Incredible reporting, the type Western media weren't doing while IBM did the Holocaust
Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé

The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.

Yuval Abraham reports.

www.972mag.com/microsoft-cl...
Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200
The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.
www.972mag.com
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X-thread for the panel featuring @asherwolf.bsky.social, Jenny Miller, Felicity Button, Colleen Taylor. Hosted by Guardian reporter Chris Knaus who did so much to cover the issue for them.

#PeopleVSRobodebt
Still trying to find this out thought I might try here
"took nine hours to notify police" 🤯
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Some of what went on with my appeal:

• 'Appeal script crashed twice and did not record the outcome.'

• 'Thomas was not sent any notification his payments had been suspended, only the final cancellation letter.'

• 'his payments were cancelled [when] penalty period did not apply'

A symphony of it.
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In a bid to distract attention away from an unprecedented attack on government openness and transparency, @albomp.bsky.social’s Govt has made false statements regarding an AI #FOI bombardment of the eSafety Commissioner. Misleading talking points atop hypocrisy! 🤬 #auspol
Government falsely blames AI for FOI surge
Bots did not send eSafety 600 requests.
ia.acs.org.au
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Sydney Water failed to perform adequate due diligence before claiming there were no PFAS hotspots within its drinking water catchments, and governments failed to keep pace with the spread of “forever chemicals” in the environment, a parliamentary inquiry has found archive.md/2025.09.11-0...
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Govt spent $101K of YOUR money on lawyers trying to keep a Maugean Skate brief from YOU. They lost the fight.

Instead of rethinking their resistance to transparency, @albomp.bsky.social’s solution to balancing the books is to charge citizens $40 to receive an erroneous #FOI decision. 🤦‍♂️ #auspol
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The correct response to bot orchestrated DDoS is *not to punish human access to freedom of information*
The federal government’s claim that several hundred Freedom of Information (FOI) applicants’ requests to the eSafety Commissioner last year were “AI bot-generated” is false, according to eSafety's publicly available documents.

Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Government falsely blames AI for FOI surge
Bots did not send eSafety 600 requests.
ia.acs.org.au
10/12🧵The irony of the Gov blaming sites helping the public access their info + accessing & indexing gov docs is they’re SOLVING not CAUSING the problem: see @oaf.org.au #righttoknow @muckrock.com #StopLAPDSpyingCoalition journos behind #SecretCanada Tom Cardoso & @robyndoolittle.bsky.social
6/12🧵#eSafety said concerns that its Meltwater tool profiles critics are false & the docs only contain posts mentioning eSafety. Many orgs’ social media monitoring is innocent PR, but considering its application in #Centrelink & #NDIS the #FOI applicants wanted to check
5/12🧵Sidenote: Although most the applicants were conservative, FSU's opposition to surveillance & censorship has been consistent eg its stance against SLV’s treatment of @jinghuaqian.com @omarsakr.bsky.social & Alison Evans & support for Antoinette Lattouf's unfair dismissal case
4/12🧵 X accounts using their real names posted eSafety’s replies; former liberal candidate Katherine Deves’s FOI captured “16,000+ docs”; scope-related decisions in the email-thread correspond with posts from users like conservative activist Kirralie Smith whose request related to “250 documents”
3/12🧵 Several dozen of the 83 "requests via the Free Speech Union of Australia's website" that eSafety determined "as having been validly made" are listed (and some posted) on its disclosure log:
www.esafety.gov.au/sites/defaul...
& www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/cor...
www.esafety.gov.au
2/12🧵Processing the 636 FOIs for users’ docs "relating to their name and X handle” was based on unique details: whether eSafety stored no posts; too manny; whether they’d provide an ID or email, according to eSafety's internal correspondence: www.esafety.gov.au/sites/defaul...
www.esafety.gov.au
1/12🧵 Here’s how I disproved the Gov’s claim that 600 FOIs were “AI bot-generated” + insights on the #FOI system’s real problems from @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au @browne90.bsky.social Maria O'Sullivan Yee-Fui Ng & Sofia Verza ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Government falsely blames AI for FOI surge
Bots did not send eSafety 600 requests.
ia.acs.org.au