Right to disconnect 

• Victoria Police have won the right to disconnect as part of the union's most recent negotiations. 
• Apart from emergencies, they're not to be contacted outside of work hours unless it’s for a welfare check. 
• Other unions are likely to follow - with work increasingly encroaching on our home lives, clocking off is getting harder. 

Porter appointment to tech portfolio 

• 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 
• 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. 
• The principle complaint is the appointment is damaging to a sector that’s working to improve its gender diversity 
• 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. 
• 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.

Facebook 

• Information belonging to more than 7.3 million Australians was leaked online as part of a massive data dump of 533 million facebook records. 
• Facebook says the data was scraped due to a vulnerability that the company discovered and patched in 2019. 
• The leaked data contains phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birth dates, bios and email addresses. It does not contain password information.
• But that information can be used by cybercriminals to impersonate someone online or get them to hand over passwords or credit card information. 
• No company should be able to have that much information that can be accessed through a single exploit. 

Andrew Laming 

• The Guardian reports Liberal National MP Andrew Laming operates more than 30 Facebook pages and profiles under the guise of community groups to promote the LNP and attack opponents. 
• For example, there’s the Redland Bay Bulletin – 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”.
• None of the pages include political authorisation disclosures.
• According to the Australian Electoral Commission, 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.  
• The MP is is on leave from parliament to undertake empathy counselling following complaints about his behaviour towards women,

Canva valuation 

• Australian start-up Canva is now valued at almost $20 billion australian dollars after raising $US71 million.
• This makes it one of the fastest growing 
• The milestone comes with Canva on track to turn over $US500 million this financial year, a 130 per cent...
  

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Lots of Uber news

Opal card to extend to Uber, taxis and share bikes

NSW is letting commuters pay for Ubers, Lime bikes, taxis and ferries with their digital Opal card in a new trial 

FYI - uber pool is back in Sydney & Perth 

How to cut costs on your ride: Uber pools riders back together 

For anyone hoping 2021 would see a return to travel… 

WWDC 2021 officially announced, iOS 15 expected

• WWDC was one of the better virtual confs i attended last year 
• WWDC is Apple’s developer conference, where they announce the developer beta of the latest operating systems for the Mac, iPhone, Watch and iPad 
• The focus is on software usually, but Apple often announces hardware too, while the world’s media is paying attention 
• Do you have any changes you’d like to see in software? 

LinkedIn Making a Clubhouse Rival 

LinkedIn confirms it's working on a Clubhouse rival, too

NFTs go missing

People's Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing. This Is Why

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SBS reporter Calliste Weitenberg has been leading a double life online. She spent six months creating a fake wellness influencer Mia Wilde aka @ThatCoastalGirl all in the name of uncovering exactly how the influencer economy operates. 

On today’s show, Calliste talks us through the highs and lows on being an influencer, how much fake followers cost and what happens when you dupe a marketing agency. 

You can catch her full series of Like, Subscribe, Follow 10pm Tuesdays on The Feed, or anytime on SBS on-demand. Read about the experiment here.

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