For decades, by many means, fair or foul, personal information (as per the Australian Privacy Act 1988) has been extracted from the individual for commercial and state actor purposes.
Sometimes, there is an exchange of value with the person, most times, there is not.
Change reveals. How many banks have I contacted? How did I contact them? Did they open the letter they requested? What’s my address? Why are they asking me these questions?
I’d like to rent a flat? Well, you can if you give us unlimited access to your personal information plus details of your financial circumstances and let us do whatever we like with it.
When you question this rather unfortunate imbalance, then here’s an “AI” generated e-mail of several pages in length that you may or may not wish to read and comprehend but the message is pretty unequivocal.
There’s an alternative emerging that grants agency to the person.
Makes life easy too.
Come along to the Hackathon in Canberra and find out for yourself.
https://solidcommunity.au/hackathon-2026-article.html
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