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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