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ctrl:cyber

Making sense of the stories shaping cybersecurity, privacy, AI, and everything in between. plain.txt unpacks what matters as we navigate an increasingly complex digital landscape – for individuals, organisations, and society alike – cutting through noise to focus on what’s actually happening, and what it means in practice. Hosted by Arjun Ramachandran and Jordan Wilson-Otto, bringing a practitioner-led perspective from their work at ctrl:cyber, an Australian cybersecurity firm helping organisations manage cyber risk across the full security lifecycle.

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166 episodes

  1. #164 Key to your data - Chandni Gupta on dark patterns in rent tech 31:30
  2. #163 Untangling AI risk - a simple breakdown of what we should worry about 32:54
  3. #162 Pixelated privacy - the state of online tracking and advertising with Emma Blackmore 35:30
  4. #161 'Pub test for privacy' a step closer - breaking down Australia's new draft privacy laws 36:19
  5. #160 Much harm, but no foul? Breaking down the privacy regulator's Qantas data breach ruling 26:17
  6. #159 Cyber breakout - What frontier AI means for cyber risk (part two) 31:32
  7. #158 Cyber breakout - What frontier AI means for cyber risk (part one) 33:09
  8. #157 AI pendulum - How Pope Leo, Trump and the Australian public have swung sentiment 29:55
  9. #156 False choice, real harm - how power asymmetries and dark patterns erode privacy 28:12
  10. #155 Australia's AI moment - Lee Hickin, National AI Centre 38:51
  11. #154 Shattered shield - Product liability rulings crack social media's legal armour 30:12
  12. #153 Labour pains - How AI is reshaping the workforce 28:36
  13. #152 Cute widget or security time bomb? The story behind website chatbots 31:42
  14. #151 Trust is built here - Privacy Awareness Week with Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind 29:47
  15. #150 Have your say - The Children's Online Privacy Code with Dr Kate Bower 39:43
  16. #149 AI in the kill chain: Breaking down Anthropic v Pentagon 32:53
  17. #148 OAIC v Bunnings - Green light for a facial recognition free for all? 30:46
  18. #147 2026 preview - Looking back to look ahead 29:08
  19. #146 Australia's grand plan for AI 31:17
  20. #145 Intimacy on display - why your chatbot conversations aren't so private 26:05
  21. #144 The era of enforcement begins - breaking down privacy's first ever civil penalty 29:58
  22. #143 A debate about facial recognition 36:11
  23. #142 Sovereign AI explained 29:13
  24. #141 The boss is watching - on the rise of workplace surveillance 27:22
  25. #140 The dark side of AI companions 34:02
  26. #139 AI or bust - Has Australia's Productivity Commission bought into the hype? 33:30
  27. #138 Trust hackers - the MO of cybercrime groups like Scattered Spider 25:03
  28. #137 Top spin - what good comms looks like after a data breach 31:18
  29. #136 Age check - how plans to verify ages of social media users are faring 29:19
  30. #135 Platform probe - Managing tensions around researcher access to data 24:37
  31. #134 AI slop is taking over the internet 30:32
  32. #133 AI mood drift - the swing away from regulation 25:55
  33. #132 No opt out - Why every election campaign is a spamfest 22:03
  34. #131 Dr Rys Farthing on evidence based digital policy and the Children's Online Privacy Code 34:36
  35. #130 Trump's trade war hits Aus tech policy 30:20
  36. #129 Rattling the can - Charities put on notice about privacy 19:32
  37. #128 See you in court! Unpacking 20 years of Victorian privacy caselaw 25:23
  38. #127 New playbook - inside the privacy regulator's plan for sustained impact 28:05
  39. #126 Hard pivot - world leaders walk away from AI safety 22:36
  40. #125 DeepSeek - Chill out and stay vigilant 28:34
  41. #124 Unfriending the truth - Behind Meta's decision to end fact-checking 28:19
  42. #123 Good tech tidings - an optimistic recap of 2024 26:51
  43. #122 Big ban theory - Why Australia’s social media ban for kids is raising eyebrows 26:41
  44. #121 Putting the "I" in AI - How your personal information powers artificial intelligence 30:05
  45. #120 The auction of you - How your data is sold daily to the highest bidder 28:32
  46. #119 Not just another AI safety standard 27:29
  47. #118 Still waiting for Terminator - how the debate on existential AI risk has shifted 32:46
  48. #117 A reform story in two tranches - our reaction to new privacy laws 31:37
  49. #116 Meet "Tex" - Australia's rootinest tootinest digital identity system 31:32
  50. #115 How the US election could shape privacy, AI and tech policy 26:07