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Privacy and eSafety Commissioners: Curbing big tech’s ‘data extractivism’ will improve web privacy and safety; teen social media ban may not

It is a mistake to pit the priorities of online safety against those of online privacy, and many of the people who do so represent the interests of giant digital platforms that promote the idea of a decentralised open web, despite having enclosed and centralised control of that same global infrastructure. That was a key message from Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, lawyer and human rights activist Lizzie O’Shea, and UNSW Criminology Professor Michael Salter at SXSW last week. The “data extractive business models” of digital giants came under heavy fire and limiting those models was described as the best way to limit privacy and safety harms by removing the economic incentives that underpin “surveillance capitalism.”

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What makes an emerging marketing leader? Australian Marketing Institute recognises two – here’s how they earned it

Clear career goals, an insatiable desire to lean in and learn new skills, and mentorship have all helped emerging marketing and business leaders from ANZ Bank and Move Bank to be recognised in this year’s this year’s Australian Marketing Institute’s Marketing Excellence awards program. And their passion for marketing as both a growth engine and as a team sport could teach other brands a thing or two.

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