<p>Right to disconnect&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Victoria Police have won the right to disconnect as part of the union's most recent negotiations.&nbsp;</li><li>Apart from emergencies, they're not to be contacted outside of work hours unless it’s for a welfare check.&nbsp;</li><li>Other unions are likely to follow - with work increasingly encroaching on our home lives, clocking off is getting harder.&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Porter appointment to tech portfolio&nbsp;</p><ul><li>A follow up on the PM’s cabinet reshuffle last month, that saw Christian Porter, the former attorney general moved to the Industry, Science and Technology portfolio&nbsp;</li><li>Tech industry leaders have told the AFR they won’t meet with the minister, invite him to things and will think twice about accepting any government grants.&nbsp;</li><li>The principle complaint is the appointment is damaging to a sector that’s working to improve its gender diversity&nbsp;</li><li>Other criticism includes: he lacks experience in technology and would be too focused on saving his political career and a defamation fight over the ABC’s coverage of the allegations, to properly lead the sector.&nbsp;</li><li>It’s always tricky for business to comment on government, and they usually have a diplomatic line about just sticking to their business… and in this case many industry leaders declined to comment, because of their ties to the government.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Facebook&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Information belonging to more than 7.3 million Australians was leaked online as part of a massive data dump of 533 million facebook records.&nbsp;</li><li>Facebook says the data was scraped due to a vulnerability that the company discovered and patched in 2019.&nbsp;</li><li>The leaked data contains phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birth dates, bios and email addresses. It does not contain password information.</li><li>But that information can be used by cybercriminals to impersonate someone online or get them to hand over passwords or credit card information.&nbsp;</li><li>No company should be able to have that much information that can be accessed through a single exploit.&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Andrew Laming&nbsp;</p><ul><li>The Guardian reports Liberal National MP <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/andrew-laming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Andrew Laming</a> operates more than 30 Facebook pages and profiles under the guise of community groups to promote the LNP and attack opponents.&nbsp;</li><li>For example, there’s the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/RedlandBulletin/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Redland Bay Bulletin</a> – which uses a similar name to the local news site the Redland City Bulletin – was set up by Laming in October 2015 claiming to be a “community group”.</li><li>None of the pages include political authorisation disclosures.</li><li>According to the <a href="https://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/electoral-advertising/index.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Australian Electoral Commission</a>, political authorisation is required for information intended to influence the way electors vote in a federal election. Those rules were extended to include social media in 2016.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>The MP is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/26/liberal-mp-andrew-laming-apologises-for-online-treatment-of-two-brisbane-women" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">is on leave from parliament</a> to undertake empathy counselling following complaints about his behaviour towards women,</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Canva valuation&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Australian start-up Canva is now valued at almost $20 billion australian dollars after raising $US71 million.</li><li>This makes it one of the fastest growing&nbsp;</li><li>The milestone comes with <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/link/follow-20170101-p574nt" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Canva on track</a> to turn over $US500 million this financial year, a 130 per cent...<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

The Helpdesk

Peter Wells

Episode 102: The Right To Disconnect

APR 10, 202138 MIN
The Helpdesk

Episode 102: The Right To Disconnect

APR 10, 202138 MIN

Description

<p>Right to disconnect&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Victoria Police have won the right to disconnect as part of the union's most recent negotiations.&nbsp;</li><li>Apart from emergencies, they're not to be contacted outside of work hours unless it’s for a welfare check.&nbsp;</li><li>Other unions are likely to follow - with work increasingly encroaching on our home lives, clocking off is getting harder.&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Porter appointment to tech portfolio&nbsp;</p><ul><li>A follow up on the PM’s cabinet reshuffle last month, that saw Christian Porter, the former attorney general moved to the Industry, Science and Technology portfolio&nbsp;</li><li>Tech industry leaders have told the AFR they won’t meet with the minister, invite him to things and will think twice about accepting any government grants.&nbsp;</li><li>The principle complaint is the appointment is damaging to a sector that’s working to improve its gender diversity&nbsp;</li><li>Other criticism includes: he lacks experience in technology and would be too focused on saving his political career and a defamation fight over the ABC’s coverage of the allegations, to properly lead the sector.&nbsp;</li><li>It’s always tricky for business to comment on government, and they usually have a diplomatic line about just sticking to their business… and in this case many industry leaders declined to comment, because of their ties to the government.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Facebook&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Information belonging to more than 7.3 million Australians was leaked online as part of a massive data dump of 533 million facebook records.&nbsp;</li><li>Facebook says the data was scraped due to a vulnerability that the company discovered and patched in 2019.&nbsp;</li><li>The leaked data contains phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birth dates, bios and email addresses. It does not contain password information.</li><li>But that information can be used by cybercriminals to impersonate someone online or get them to hand over passwords or credit card information.&nbsp;</li><li>No company should be able to have that much information that can be accessed through a single exploit.&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Andrew Laming&nbsp;</p><ul><li>The Guardian reports Liberal National MP <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/andrew-laming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Andrew Laming</a> operates more than 30 Facebook pages and profiles under the guise of community groups to promote the LNP and attack opponents.&nbsp;</li><li>For example, there’s the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/RedlandBulletin/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Redland Bay Bulletin</a> – which uses a similar name to the local news site the Redland City Bulletin – was set up by Laming in October 2015 claiming to be a “community group”.</li><li>None of the pages include political authorisation disclosures.</li><li>According to the <a href="https://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/electoral-advertising/index.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Australian Electoral Commission</a>, political authorisation is required for information intended to influence the way electors vote in a federal election. Those rules were extended to include social media in 2016.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>The MP is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/26/liberal-mp-andrew-laming-apologises-for-online-treatment-of-two-brisbane-women" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">is on leave from parliament</a> to undertake empathy counselling following complaints about his behaviour towards women,</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Canva valuation&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Australian start-up Canva is now valued at almost $20 billion australian dollars after raising $US71 million.</li><li>This makes it one of the fastest growing&nbsp;</li><li>The milestone comes with <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/link/follow-20170101-p574nt" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Canva on track</a> to turn over $US500 million this financial year, a 130 per cent...<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>