Geoff McGrath

tech, data & privacy lawyer • lives in Sydney (prev Melbourne & Auckland) • keen supporter of local #tech #startups and #investing • tweets are my own views

[CEDA @ceda_news]

"More needs to be done to refocus the CDR to deliver the greatest benefits to consumers."

At this morning's CEDA event, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Dr Steven Jones announced a reset of the #ConsumerDataRight (CDR). #auspol
https://t.co/mLjW2JWrAs

[Geoff McGrath @gsmcg]

Preparatory moves from the Government in the #privacy space, as a standalone Privacy Commissioner is announced, and more funding expected for the OAIC in the coming budget.

[The Guardian @guardian]

Labor to appoint dedicated privacy commissioner to combat data breaches https://t.co/nLxFz5UsuI

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Interesting comments in ⁦@WIRED⁩ from ⁦@sama⁩ on the future direction of generative AU, it’s not just big training data sets that matter. https://t.co/bgn8TkI6og

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@kirbywinfield @JessTheVC This is it. Consumer protection exists where there is a public offering, by requiring the company raising capital to meet stricter rules (offering docs etc), but that is too expensive/laborious to expect a startup to do (and arguably it isn't a terribly effective tool).

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@matthew_d_green Same fact situation that led to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's successful Federal Court case against Google last year: https://t.co/kLllUzbaOB

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@davidfrum How about the classic, your delivery will arrive between 9 and 5pm today? (or substitute "delivery" with "contractor")

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@LillianKuan @eugenuity @overleaf For a moment there I thought @LillianKuan was back working as an academic publisher 😂

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@eugenuity @LillianKuan cool! Will have to have a look into it

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@CaseyNewton Bring back iTunes Ping @AppleMusic

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This random ad on twitter is the most #dystopian thing ever. Full on blade runner. #scifi #tech

[jakefriend @jakefriend_dev]

Hey #indiedev #gamedev, I turned down a pretty big publishing contract today for about half a million in total investment (I'm a solo dev). They genuinely wanted to work with me, but couldn't see what was exploitative about the terms. I'm not under an NDA, wanna talk about it? 👀

[Paul Bassat @PaulBassat]

Our economy is dramatically transforming ; Afterpay is our biggest ever takeover, Atlassian market cap exceeds $US80b & Canva reportedly raising at $US30b. Throw in emerging group of Airwallex, Deputy, Rokt, CultureAmp etc plus thousands more startups with big dreams. So exciting

[Geoff McGrath @gsmcg]

Unfortunately, this behaviour is pretty much the norm - organisations asking for "consent" (which you must give to receive their services) and not being open about how information is used is also a sign of how immature their data & privacy practices are https://t.co/ycOSlkch19

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Rocket Lab has now contracted with NASA to send a rocket to *Mars*, amazing stuff from an ambitious NZ company 🚀 @RocketLab and @Peter_J_Beck https://t.co/gOdqNBa6W9

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Loving this article on games = strategy advice from @reidhoffman, yes for Catan! https://t.co/EKMADYjiHx

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Interesting question: is a permaban justifiable on Twitter's own policies, or are the rules being made up on the fly? Not Easy, Not Unreasonable, Not Censorship: The Decision To Ban Trump From Twitter https://t.co/2P2TnfcIJV via @Techdirt

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@eugenuity @LillianKuan @overleaf 2015 throwbacks! Link to article? Would I understand it if I read it?

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@Channel9 #AusOpen coverage just cut out in Melbourne on Channel Nine. Any word on when it will be back?

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@eugenuity Didn’t I proof read your thesis?? Come to think of it, I do recall a lot of code taking up all the pages...

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@eugenuity Writing in QuickBASIC and printing out all your code? You should have done it with your PhD, fill up the thesis page count easy!

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The Judge’s Code https://t.co/qQYOHkKwJx