Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 02 May
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
The notion of personal privacy in a digital society may be out of date. While many of us say we still want it, we willingly share our data – and dislike paying to protect it. Governments and online businesses covet our personal information. Meanwhile, almost nobody reads the terms and conditions; we merely trust that if something were awry, someone else would have noticed by now.
But what should we be concerned about … and what can we do about it? Why is privacy even important if, as they say, you have nothing to hide?
We’ll hear from computing and information systems researcher Vanessa Teague (University of Melbourne), tech security strategist Rachael Falk (auDA) and employment and industrial relations lawyer Josh Bornstein (Maurice Blackburn). They’ll talk about open data, de-identification, cryptography, social media – and how to defend our rights to both privacy and free speech in our personal and professional lives. #modernconfidential
Presented in partnership with Liberty Victoria, and the City of Melbourne as part of Knowledge Week.
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Featuring
Damien Carrick
Damien, a qualified lawyer, joined the ABC in 1996 as the producer of ABC Radio National’s Law Report and in 2001 became the presenter. In the past he has worked as a legal writer for the Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission and written for Australian Lawyer magazine.
Before his career in the media, Damien worked as a solicitor in various glass towers in Melbourne’s CBD and was a long-time volunteer solicitor at his local community legal centre in St Kilda.
Damien is fascinated by the inner workings of our legal system and by how individuals grapple with its complexities as they strive to achieve ‘justice’.
Vanessa Teague
Dr Vanessa Teague is a senior lecturer in Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Her interest is in cryptographic protocols that support a free and democratic society.
Her recent work includes contributing to the design of the vVote project for Victorian elections, and design and analysis of secure protocols for data linking, elections and genomic computations.
She has focused primarily on electronic voting since completing a PhD at Stanford University on combining cryptography and game theory. With Dr Chris Culnane and Dr Ben Rubinstein, she was a member of the team that identified cryptographic weaknesses in the 10% MBS/PBS longitudinal dataset in September 2016.
Rachael Falk
Rachael is currently the Director of Technology, Security and Strategy at the .au Domain Administration (auDA).
In this senior role, Rachael provides strategic guidance and advice on cyber security for auDA; she is responsible for ensuring that the .com.au online environment is perceived as a safe and trusted. Rachael is collaborating with other key industry advisors on how auDA can become more proactive in the cyber security ecosystem. In this role, Rachael has significant interaction with a range of government, industry, and academic stakeholders.
Prior to this, Rachael was at Telstra, and held many roles during her 14 years there. Most recently, she led Telstra’s Cyber Influence capability. This team, sitting within Telstra’s Security Operations Group, was the first dedicated team of its kind within Telstra to establish and drive a cyber security culture within the company. Rachael also co-developed the Five Knows of Cyber Security, an easy and accessible approach to cyber security that can be effectively used to manage cyber security risk from the board down.
Before moving into cyber security, Rachael was a lawyer at Telstra for 10 years. Most notably, she provided strategic advice and successfully managed a range of particularly sensitive and high profile litigated matters. These matters often had significant senior management engagement along with significant media exposure.
Upon admission as a lawyer, Rachael practiced in leading law firms both in Australia and overseas.
Rachael is a published author having written several articles for the CBS publication ZDNet, as well as two chapters in the Forbes- Palo Alto Australian publication of Navigating the Digital Age – The Definitive Cybersecurity Guide for Directors and Officers.
Rachael is also a presenter on cyber security and risk for the ANU’s National Security College Executive and Professional Development Programme. Rachael has a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University (ANU), Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from the University of Technology, Sydney and Master of National Security Policy (Advanced) with Honours from the National Security College at ANU.
Josh Bornstein
Josh has been the head of the National Employment and Industrial Relations group at Maurice Blackburn lawyers since 1997. In that capacity he has represented a large number of unions in proceedings before the industrial tribunal and the courts including Australia’s highest court, the High Court.
Between 2013 and 2017, Josh has been ranked by his peers in the legal profession in Doyle’s Guide as the leading employment lawyer for employees.
He is a longstanding member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, University of Melbourne and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Centre for Future Work. He is also a director of the economic think tank, the Australia Institute.
Josh is also Deputy Chair of the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board, a disciplinary tribunal for the Victorian horse racing industry and an occasional writer for the Australian Financial Review, Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and other publications.