16-05-2025
Which app is the latest to say it wants to be your everything?
Airbnb is in the midst of a potential mid-life crisis. It's set to relaunch itself as the 'everything app', but is this going to be enough to save an app that has to compete with room service and housekeeping?
Also, Google has announced it's plans for digital ID age verification, and there might be big problems when it comes to implementing it in Australia.
Plus, gaming social media platform, Discord, is planning to roll out facial recognition. Is this a good idea? And is it ever really safe to give away your biometric data?
GUESTS:
Kath Albury , Professor of Media & Communications and Associate Investigator, ARC Centre For Excellence For Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology, leading the Digital and data literacies for sexual health policy and practice research project
, Professor of Media & Communications and Associate Investigator, ARC Centre For Excellence For Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology, leading the Digital and data literacies for sexual health policy and practice research project
Hannah Geremia, Digital Content Editor of WhistleOut Singapore
This episode of Download This Show was made on Gadigal land and in Naarm.
Technical production by Craig Tilmouth and Carey Dell.